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Skunk Works Digest       Tuesday, 29 December 1992     Volume 02 : Number 040

In this issue:

	F-177 (Guards)
	SR-71
	SR-71 Designation

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From: Zel Eaton <@VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU:AD04@NEMOMUS>
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 92 08:34:27 EST
Subject: F-177 (Guards)

Page 13 of the December AIRFORCEmagazine (photo at the bottom of the pa
ge) shows an F-117 complete with guards.  A total of five men, four
withrifles and one who appears to be unarmed.  Photo is of F-117 and a
P-38 warbird at Peterson AFB Colorado.  Can't understand why they seem
to be guarding only the F-117 :) (Thats the Confederate Airforce in me
talking.) :) zel

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From: gt6745b@prism.gatech.edu
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 92 21:46:56 EST
Subject: SR-71

I was reading the stuff about aircraft designations and a question arose
in my mind.  Obviously the 'SR' in SR-71 stands for Strategic Recon, but
I believe that most of the 71's missions were for tactical recon and BDA.
Perhaps it was originally designated 'strategic' because it was built in
the middle of the cold war and was used to initially determine Soviet and
Warsaw Pact nuclear capabilities.  Does anyone here have another possibility
or perhaps the correct answer?
						-Michael

Michael David Knight gt6745b@prism.gatech.edu   * COMBAT AIRCRAFT:  A mix of * 
Georgia Institute of Technology                 * cold steel, sharp teeth,   *
Atlanta, Georgia 30332                          * cosmic warlords, and evil  *
Aerospace Engineering (404)676-0520             * spirits.                   *

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From: gt6745b@prism.gatech.edu
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 92 22:10:57 EST
Subject: SR-71 Designation

I was reading the stuff about aircraft designations and a question arose
in my mind.  Obviously the 'SR' in SR-71 stands for Strategic Recon, but
I believe that most of the 71's missions were for tactical recon and BDA.
Perhaps it was originally designated 'strategic' because it was built in
the middle of the cold war and was used to initially determine Soviet and
Warsaw Pact nuclear capabilities.  Does anyone here have another possibility
or perhaps the correct answer?
						-Michael

Michael David Knight gt6745b@prism.gatech.edu   * COMBAT AIRCRAFT:  A mix of * 
Georgia Institute of Technology                 * cold steel, sharp teeth,   *
Atlanta, Georgia 30332                          * cosmic warlords, and evil  *
Aerospace Engineering (404)676-0520             * spirits.                   *



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