From: skunk-works-digest-owner@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu To: skunk-works-digest@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu Subject: Skunk Works Digest V3 #8 Reply-To: skunk-works-digest@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu Errors-To: skunk-works-digest-owner@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu Precedence: bulk Skunk Works Digest Wednesday, 11 August 1993 Volume 03 : Number 008 In this issue: Milt Thompson Request For Information Re: Lockheed HTVL? Mailing list As the young girl said re. the poltergeists..."I'm back" 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: Rick Pavek Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1993 11:52:20 -0700 Subject: Milt Thompson MILTON O. THOMPSON, chief engineer at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Facility and the first pilot to fly the M-2 lifting body, died suddenly Friday at his home. He was 67, and died of "natural causes," a NASA spokesman said yesterday. Vaya con Dios, Milt. and thanks. ------------------------------ From: Bruce Henderson Date: Tue, 10 Aug 93 12:47:30 -0700 Subject: Request For Information A while back this group discussed nuclear powered rockets and jets. At that time some good bibliographic data was passed around. Could any kind soul out there clue me in? In particular, I am interested in hard data on thrust and impulse of nuclear rocket motors. Thanks a bunch Bruce bruce@pages.com [flying chernobyl fan club] ------------------------------ From: larry@ichips.intel.com Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1993 14:19:01 -0700 Subject: Re: Lockheed HTVL? Just heard that at the Space Symposium a few weeks ago in Colorado Springs, that Lockheed had a presentation on something that my source thinks was called "The Aeroballistic Rocket". Look for stories on this thing shortly. It sounds like it was a DC-Y competitor and may be the VTHL thing that Russ was asking about almost a few weeks ago. I'm suspicious that we're looking at two programs here. VTHL, or the Aeroballistic Rocket and NORA. It's just a guess at this stage. I'll continue to run it down, and I'll have more information shortly. Larry ------------------------------ From: ron@habu.stortek.com (Ron Schweikert) Date: Tue, 10 Aug 93 17:13:01 MDT Subject: Mailing list My *utmost* apologies if this mailing goes to the list. I had to drop from the list about 6 months ago and am just now able to get back on. Unfortunately I lost the admin mailing id and can only remember the list. Would someone please email me the admin id so I can get back on...I miss it! Ron Schweikert (AFSC 45371, 9th OMS, Beale AFB, 1975-1980, SR-71). Ron_Schweikert@stortek.com ------------------------------ From: ron@habu.stortek.com (Ron Schweikert) Date: Tue, 10 Aug 93 17:49:52 MDT Subject: As the young girl said re. the poltergeists..."I'm back" Wow, fast response to my request! I know this is going to the list and for the extra bandwidth I apologize, but wanted to perhaps save some of you the effort of responding to my request. I sent a message to Phil and if I did it right should be on again shortly. Good to be back, and thanks to Michael Chui, Rick Pavek and Robert Herndon who responded within 20 minutes of my request! Ron_Schweikert@stortek.com (My workstation name, appropriately enough: "habu"). ------------------------------ End of Skunk Works Digest V3 #8 ******************************* 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).