From: skunk-works-digest-owner@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu To: skunk-works-digest@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu Subject: Skunk Works Digest V2 #66 Reply-To: skunk-works-digest@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu Errors-To: skunk-works-digest-owner@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu Precedence: bulk Skunk Works Digest Friday, 29 January 1993 Volume 02 : Number 066 In this issue: PNW get together January 1993 issue of Air Force Magazine Identify please! Identify please! Re: Identify please! 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: kuryakin@bcstec.ca.boeing.com (Rick Pavek) Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 13:45:11 PST Subject: PNW get together I know I've asked before, but I'll ask again with new details... Anybody in the list that would like to get together to meet and entertain rumors (and talk to at least one of the big names) in the Seattle area, here's the scoop. Museum of Flight at Boeing Field wants a mere $250 for the classroom under the Red Barn (the original Boeing plant) and included audiovisual devices and chairs. This includes passes to tour the museum. (The museum includes, among other really nice a/c, the sole-surviving A-12 Mothership. Sidenote: The museum will be acquiring a D-21 to compliment the A-12, and this particular D-21 is the only one to have flown on the back of the A-12 and had it's engine runup.) I can't fund this out of my own pocket, so hopefully, we can get a lot of folks to attend this get together so we can split the costs and pay a proportionatly lower individual fee. So those of you who would like to attend this get together, tentatively scheduled for Feb 6th, Saturday, please contact me asap. This includes those of you who responded before, since I currently need numbers of people attending. If we can get a minimum of 25 people, it would mean $10 per person. That's merely double the normal admission price to the museum. Well, normal is $4, but it's close. Contact me at kuryakin@bcstec.ca.boeing.com or at 206 888-9791. I make no secret about my phone number since I'm in the phone book... If anyone would like to actually contribute their participation in the informal program, such as speaking about their experiences, bring video or film to be shown, or whatever, please let me know that as well. Also, my intentions are to offer, if enough interest is generated, a patch and t-shirt for sale to commemorate the event. Rick Pavek ------------------------------ From: "Thomas J. Klotzbach" <0003751365@mcimail.com> Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 22:45 GMT Subject: January 1993 issue of Air Force Magazine Hi, I'm not sure why I got the issue so late, but there are a couple of interesting articles in the January issue: - "A Checklist of Major Aeronautical Systems" which states that a Hypersonics program is ongoing under the Wright Laboratory/Flight Dynamics Directorate. - "The Secret Doings at Tonopah" which discusses the F-117A and the role that Col. Al Whitely played in the development of the F-117A and why Tonopah was selected for a "bed down" site for the F-117A. I'm calling the AFA tomorrow to see if they will give me permission to post these articles... ******************************************************************************* Thomas J. Klotzbach MCI Mail: 375-1365 Genesee Community College Internet: 3751365@mcimail.com Batavia, NY 14020 klotzbtj@snybufva.cs.snybuf.edu Work: (716) 343-0055 x358 ------------------------------ From: Lee Levine Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 16:16:30 -0700 (MST) Subject: Identify please! What's an A-12 and a D-21? ------------------------------ From: megazone@wpi.WPI.EDU (B Bikowicz) Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 20:43:12 -0500 (EST) Subject: Identify please! Once upon a time Lee Levine shaped the electrons to say... >What's an A-12 and a D-21? The A-12 is the original Blackbird, ancestor to the YF-12 and SR-71 Sometimes mistakenly called the A-11. The D-21, also referred to as the GTD-21 is a drone that was designed to be carried to high altitude and speed by a modified A-12, referred to as an M-12. (M for mothership, the in D-21 was for Drone)... It was capable of long range recon at speeds and altitudes in excess of those obtained by the Blackbird. After a midair collision between an M-12 (one of only 2) and a just released D-21, the D-21 was modified to be launched from the pylons of a B-52. The drone was boosted to speed and altitude by a solid rocket. ############################################################################### # I have one prejudice, and that is against stupidity. Use your mind, think! # #Email megazone@wpi.wpi.edu Moderator, WPI anime FTP site 130.215.24.1 /anime# ############################################################################### ------------------------------ From: Wayne Fiori Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 22:56:12 PST Subject: Re: Identify please! It was written: > > Once upon a time Lee Levine shaped the electrons to say... > >What's an A-12 and a D-21? > > The A-12 is the original Blackbird, ancestor to the YF-12 and SR-71 > Sometimes mistakenly called the A-11. > > The D-21, also referred to as the GTD-21 is a drone that was designed to be > carried to high altitude and speed by a modified A-12, referred to as an M-12. > (M for mothership, the in D-21 was for Drone)... > > It was capable of long range recon at speeds and altitudes in excess of those > obtained by the Blackbird. > > After a midair collision between an M-12 (one of only 2) and a just released > D-21, the D-21 was modified to be launched from the pylons of a B-52. The > drone was boosted to speed and altitude by a solid rocket. How were these drones recovered?? Parachute to a predetermined landing sight sounds like the only option. - -- =============================================================================== |\//\\//\\//| Wayne R Fiori | e-mail: fiori@chemistry.ucsc.edu | |//\\//\\//\| Thimann Laboratories | Phone: (408)459-3390 [office] | |/\\//\\//\\| Chemistry Board, UCSC | (408)459-2935 [fax] | |\\//\\//\\/| Santa Cruz, CA 95064 | (408)459-4002 [message] | =============================================================================== ------------------------------ End of Skunk Works Digest V2 #66 ******************************** 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". 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