From: skunk-works-digest-owner@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu To: skunk-works-digest@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu Subject: Skunk Works Digest V2 #42 Reply-To: skunk-works-digest@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu Errors-To: skunk-works-digest-owner@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu Precedence: bulk Skunk Works Digest Thursday, 31 December 1992 Volume 02 : Number 042 In this issue: WINGS NASP - waveriders in a hypersonic sky U-2 Shootdown Re: U-2 Shootdown See the end of the digest for information on subscribing to the skunk-works or skunk-works-digest mailing lists and on how to retrieve back issues. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "DRCOA1::LENOCHS" Date: 30 Dec 92 09:40:00 EST Subject: WINGS I N T E R O F F I C E M E M O R A N D U M Date: 30-Dec-1992 09:38am EDT From: Loyd M. Enochs LENOCHS Dept: 02*15 S.D. Wilmington - VW Tel No: (508)658-6100 1578 TO: Remote Addressee ( _DDN!skunk-works@orchestra.ecn.purdue.edu ) Subject: WINGS Anyone know which episodes of "WINGS" will be in the 17hour marathon on New Year's Day? The TV guide only says "17 episodes". Thanks __ ___/ | \ | / The Computer's Revenge or "Ultimate Eyestrain" (thx MM) /____ |---->zap<- Loyd M. Enochs (ex-USAF) - Dynamics Research Corporation \_| / | \ Andover, MA - lenochs%drcoa1.decnet@drcvax.af.mil Internet address: le%isspg%drc@s1.drc.com ------------------------------ From: "S.K. Whiteman" <@VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU:WHITEMAN@IPFWVM> Date: Wed, 30 Dec 92 13:13:55 EST Subject: NASP - waveriders in a hypersonic sky In the Jan 1993 issue of Air International, Vol 44 No 1 page 8, is an article on hypersonic aircraft. It concerns its self with NASP, but there are some revealing comments on the technology in general. Such as: a ramjet won't work above Mach 6, something I didn't know; and that slush hydrogen is 16% more dense than the liquid form and it is 18% more effective as a coolant. This is the first of a two part article, and may shed some light on the mysterious aircraft being discussed. Isn't it amazing how much conjecture one can obtain from a small investment of fact.....M. Twain :-) \ /___________________ Sam \_____/ | IBM Systems Programmer Chicago/ | * | O Indiana University - I | Ft. Wayne | H Purdue University at Fort Wayne L | 1794-1994 | Fort Wayne, Indiana USA ------------------------------ From: gt6745b@prism.gatech.edu Date: Wed, 30 Dec 92 14:19:12 EST Subject: U-2 Shootdown Just out of curiousity, does anyone out there happen to have the resources available to find out what type of SAM was fired at and brought down Francis Gary Powers' U-2 over the Soviet Union? I haven't been able to find out anywhere! 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. * ------------------------------ From: Per Danielsson Date: Wed, 30 Dec 92 21:52:44 +0100 Subject: Re: U-2 Shootdown >Just out of curiousity, does anyone out there happen to have the resources >available to find out what type of SAM was fired at and brought down Francis >Gary Powers' U-2 over the Soviet Union? I haven't been able to find out >anywhere! According to Aerial Espionage by Dick van der Art, the U-2 flown by Powers was brought down by the shockwave caused by the explosion of a Soviet Sa-2 Guideline antiaircraft missile. ------------------------------ End of Skunk Works Digest V2 #42 ******************************** To subscribe to skunk-works-digest, send the command: subscribe skunk-works-digest in the body of a message to "listserv@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu". If you want to subscribe something other than the account the mail is coming from, such as a local redistribution list, then append that address to the "subscribe" command; for example, to subscribe "local-skunk-works": subscribe skunk-works-digest local-skunk-works@your.domain.net A non-digest (direct mail) version of this list is also available; to subscribe to that instead, replace all instances of "skunk-works-digest" in the commands above with "skunk-works". Back issues are available for anonymous FTP from harbor.ecn.purdue.edu, in /pub/skunk-works/digest/vNN.nMMM (where "NN" is the volume number, and "MMM" is the issue number).