From: skunk-works-digest-owner@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu To: skunk-works-digest@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu Subject: Skunk Works Digest V2 #55 Reply-To: skunk-works-digest@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu Errors-To: skunk-works-digest-owner@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu Precedence: bulk Skunk Works Digest Sunday, 17 January 1993 Volume 02 : Number 055 In this issue: Re: Sled Driver Re: Sled Driver Re: Sled Driver 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: dnadams@nyx.cs.du.edu (Dean Adams) Date: Sat, 16 Jan 93 09:32:49 MST Subject: Re: Sled Driver agbrooks@teaching.cs.adelaide.edu.au (Zoz) writes: >Personally, I have never heard of SRs being painted anything except black >(although there are several M-12 plastic model kits that I have seen which >depict both the M-12 and the D-21 as silver-coloured. That would be the unpainted Titanium color... >Forwarded message: |> A friend and I fly over Edwards AFB near where I live (San Bernardino CA, Aren't there some restrictions against civvies flying right over the base? |> One day, I looked out over their complex, and I saw the familiar shape of |> the SR ! That much at least is not surprising. |>We did a sharp bank, and circled the area for a few minutes gawking at them. |>Then I realized what looked odd; they were painted in VERY odd schemes. Hmmm... every time i've been out there, they were all normal Blackbird-black. The most recent visit was about three months ago. I tend to doubt that the paint shop went nuts with them since then. :-) |> All had "bengle tiger" stripes, there were about 8-10, 8-10 "stripes", or 8-10 *Blackbirds*? If it was the latter, they were very definitely NOT Blackbirds, since there are only three of them at Edwards (plus one AFFTC museum article tucked away for restoration). |>most were yellow with black stripes, some were red, blue and green with |>black stripes! Ever heard of such a thing? The 9th SRW guys used to do some nice chalk drawings on their SRs at times, but certainly nothing like that. |>It was quite a sight to say the least! I wish I had my camera. >So, what do you folks think? Do you think he could have been actually overflying MOJAVE and seeing some acrobatic planes or something? I really can't think of any aircraft i've seen at Edwards that looked anything like that. - -dean ------------------------------ From: dnadams@nyx.cs.du.edu (Dean Adams) Date: Sat, 16 Jan 93 09:32:49 MST Subject: Re: Sled Driver agbrooks@teaching.cs.adelaide.edu.au (Zoz) writes: >Personally, I have never heard of SRs being painted anything except black >(although there are several M-12 plastic model kits that I have seen which >depict both the M-12 and the D-21 as silver-coloured. That would be the unpainted Titanium color... >Forwarded message: |> A friend and I fly over Edwards AFB near where I live (San Bernardino CA, Aren't there some restrictions against civvies flying right over the base? |> One day, I looked out over their complex, and I saw the familiar shape of |> the SR ! That much at least is not surprising. |>We did a sharp bank, and circled the area for a few minutes gawking at them. |>Then I realized what looked odd; they were painted in VERY odd schemes. Hmmm... every time i've been out there, they were all normal Blackbird-black. The most recent visit was about three months ago. I tend to doubt that the paint shop went nuts with them since then. :-) |> All had "bengle tiger" stripes, there were about 8-10, 8-10 "stripes", or 8-10 *Blackbirds*? If it was the latter, they were very definitely NOT Blackbirds, since there are only three of them at Edwards (plus one AFFTC museum article tucked away for restoration). |>most were yellow with black stripes, some were red, blue and green with |>black stripes! Ever heard of such a thing? The 9th SRW guys used to do some nice chalk drawings on their SRs at times, but certainly nothing like that. |>It was quite a sight to say the least! I wish I had my camera. >So, what do you folks think? Do you think he could have been actually overflying MOJAVE and seeing some acrobatic planes or something? I really can't think of any aircraft i've seen at Edwards that looked anything like that. - -dean ------------------------------ From: dnadams@nyx.cs.du.edu (Dean Adams) Date: Sat, 16 Jan 93 09:32:49 MST Subject: Re: Sled Driver agbrooks@teaching.cs.adelaide.edu.au (Zoz) writes: >Personally, I have never heard of SRs being painted anything except black >(although there are several M-12 plastic model kits that I have seen which >depict both the M-12 and the D-21 as silver-coloured. That would be the unpainted Titanium color... >Forwarded message: |> A friend and I fly over Edwards AFB near where I live (San Bernardino CA, Aren't there some restrictions against civvies flying right over the base? |> One day, I looked out over their complex, and I saw the familiar shape of |> the SR ! That much at least is not surprising. |>We did a sharp bank, and circled the area for a few minutes gawking at them. |>Then I realized what looked odd; they were painted in VERY odd schemes. Hmmm... every time i've been out there, they were all normal Blackbird-black. The most recent visit was about three months ago. I tend to doubt that the paint shop went nuts with them since then. :-) |> All had "bengle tiger" stripes, there were about 8-10, 8-10 "stripes", or 8-10 *Blackbirds*? If it was the latter, they were very definitely NOT Blackbirds, since there are only three of them at Edwards (plus one AFFTC museum article tucked away for restoration). |>most were yellow with black stripes, some were red, blue and green with |>black stripes! Ever heard of such a thing? The 9th SRW guys used to do some nice chalk drawings on their SRs at times, but certainly nothing like that. |>It was quite a sight to say the least! I wish I had my camera. >So, what do you folks think? Do you think he could have been actually overflying MOJAVE and seeing some acrobatic planes or something? I really can't think of any aircraft i've seen at Edwards that looked anything like that. - -dean ------------------------------ End of Skunk Works Digest V2 #55 ******************************** 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 To unsubscribe, send mail to the same address, with the command: unsubscribe skunk-works-digest in the body. Administrative requests, problems, and other non-list mail can be sent to either "skunk-works-digest-owner@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu" or, if you don't like to type a lot, "prm@ecn.purdue.edu". 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).