From: skunk-works-digest-owner@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu To: skunk-works-digest@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu Subject: Skunk Works Digest V2 #83 Reply-To: skunk-works-digest@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu Errors-To: skunk-works-digest-owner@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu Precedence: bulk Skunk Works Digest Saturday, 20 February 1993 Volume 02 : Number 083 In this issue: Aurora Hello More scans! 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: naughney@nmrc.ucc.ie (Niall Aughney) Date: Fri, 19 Feb 93 12:51:32 GMT Subject: Aurora Hi, I'm new to this list so forgive the question if it's already been asked.Any news recently on the TR-3A Black Manta or the infomous Aurora ------------------------------ From: naughney@nmrc.ucc.ie (Niall Aughney) Date: Fri, 19 Feb 93 13:36:05 GMT Subject: Hello Hi, I'm new to this list so forgive the question if it's already been asked.Any news recently on the TR-3A Black Manta or the infomous Aurora, sorry I can't use ftp. Niall ------------------------------ From: brndlfly@Athena.MIT.EDU Date: Fri, 19 Feb 93 11:33:12 EST Subject: More scans! Here comes some more stuff. A lot more. I'm told that the ftp site is getting a little pressed for space so this is going to be it for now. Phil, let me know when and if I can finish this up? I've got maybe a dozen more images in mind, maybe less now that I think about it. Anyways, here goes. These five images were scanned from Milestones of Aviation: the Smithsonian Institution, by John Greenwood. b52.jpg: Tanker's eye view of a B-52(H?) in European One camo. There are groups of ALCM pods on the pylons. 112K. c5_2.jpg: Similar to c5.jpg, but a lot smaller. A C-5A (maybe the same one, the picture look REAL familiar) passes over the Golden Gate Bridge. 121K. dh88.jpg: A restored de Havilland DH.88 Comet in a pretty flyby. This type was designed specifically to win the England to Australia air race in 1934. 112K. f106.jpg: Four formation Delta Darts line up for the camera. 174K. xb70.jpg: Overhead and from the right side, the rollout of the XB-70 Valkyrie. Lots of verrrrrrrry little people wandering around. This is one sincerely huge airplane. 217K. Worth every bit. The next four images were scanned from Shooting Stars, by Michael O'Leary. t33_1.jpg: Side view of a two-tone grey T-33 over the Sierras. This image is sweet enough that I'm keeping a copy for myself. 165K. t33_2.jpg: A QT-33 sits on the ground at China Lake in 1970. You can see the tail of what looks like a Grumman Cougar on the left. Question: what's burning furiously behind the buildings??? 146K. t33_3.jpg: A bare-metal CT-33 at dawn or something near CFW Winnipeg in November 1987. Artificially brightened. Nice pic. 157K. skyfox.jpg: The Skyfox, the last version of the T-33, by Skyfox Enterprises Ltd. Can you tell it used to be a T-33? Just barely. 183K. The next four images were scanned from Jay Miller's Aerofax Minigraph 28. tr1_1.jpg: Three TR-1A's participated in the PLSS trials at Beale. All three of them are in this pic. On the concrete, in formation. 185K. tr1_2.jpg: A TR-1A on the ground at Paldale, probably an open house from the look of the folks wandering around with cameras. 211K. tr2.jpg: This JPEG is a mistake. It is really a TR-1B, not a TR-2. Rising off the deck and passing overhead. White paint scheme. 185K. u-2r.jpg: A good front view of a U-2R coming in. Emphasizes the new very-high-aspect-ratio wing. 87K. These last two are very hard to come by. They are from the press packet handed out at the YF-23 roll out at Northrop. Having aviation journalist friends isn't all that bad after all, it seems. f119.jpg: A test-run of the Pratt & Whitney XF119 turbofan when it was still in competition for the ATF contract. About fifteen feet of blue flame. 195K. yf23rollout.jpg: A good head-on view of the YF-23 as it appeared at rollout. Good pic, good scan. 102K. That's all. There was going to be one more but it got corrupted in the transfer to this workstation so it'll just have to wait. Have fun with 'em. Again, instructions for the clueless: type 'ftp harbor.ecn.purdue.edu". log in as 'anonymous' and use your email address as your password. the images are in /pub/skunk-works/pic and can be downloaded using the command 'mget filename'. Be sure to type 'bin' before you use mget or you might download a lot of garbage. Laters, -T T Velazquez MIT Aero/Astro brndlfly@athena.mit.edu "Crayolas are one of the few things the human race has in common." -Robert Fulghum ------------------------------ End of Skunk Works Digest V2 #83 ******************************** 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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