From: skunk-works-digest-owner@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu To: skunk-works-digest@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu Subject: Skunk Works Digest V3 #16 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, 20 August 1993 Volume 03 : Number 016 In this issue: Re: Skunk Works Digest V3 #15 Re: Skunk Works Digest V3 #15 AirForces Monthly 7/93 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: ranck@joesbar.cc.vt.edu (Wm. L. Ranck) Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1993 09:31:44 -0500 (EDT) Subject: Re: Skunk Works Digest V3 #15 > - ---------- > TITLE: DC-X First Flight 100% Succesful. > The first stability test flight went exactly as planned earlier this > afternoon, with takeoff, flight path, and landing location all right > on the button. "It was beautiful" said one MDA employee who viewed > the flight on closed-circuit TV at MDA's Huntington Beach plant. > I'm curious. Are these manned or un-manned tests. Does the DCX even have a manned capability or is it just a drone test vehichle? I've seen some articles in the local paper, but they don't give any detail and I don't remember. - -- * Bill Ranck (703) 231-9503 Bill.Ranck@vt.edu * * Computing Center, Virginia Polytchnic Inst. & State Univ., Blacksburg, Va. * ------------------------------ From: Mary Shafer Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1993 17:24:01 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: Skunk Works Digest V3 #15 Just a quickie answer--I'm in Buffalo, on a borrowed computer. It's unmanned and has absolutely no manned capability. It's even uncertain if the proposed follow-on, the DC-Y, which will go into space, will be manned. Mary Shafer DoD #0362 KotFR shafer@ursa-major.spdcc.com On Thu, 19 Aug 1993, Wm. L. Ranck wrote: > > - ---------- > > TITLE: DC-X First Flight 100% Succesful. > > The first stability test flight went exactly as planned earlier this > > afternoon, with takeoff, flight path, and landing location all right > > on the button. "It was beautiful" said one MDA employee who viewed > > the flight on closed-circuit TV at MDA's Huntington Beach plant. > > > > I'm curious. Are these manned or un-manned tests. Does the DCX even > have a manned capability or is it just a drone test vehichle? I've > seen some articles in the local paper, but they don't give any detail > and I don't remember. > > -- > * Bill Ranck (703) 231-9503 Bill.Ranck@vt.edu * > * Computing Center, Virginia Polytchnic Inst. & State Univ., Blacksburg, Va. * ------------------------------ From: Paul Rak Date: Thu, 19 Aug 93 23:16:54 CDT Subject: AirForces Monthly 7/93 I stopped by the local Barnes & Noble tonight to pick up the 9/93 issue of Airpower mentioned recently on this list...unfortunately, they didn't have it. What they did have, though, was the 7/93 issue of AirForces Monthly, published by Key Publishing of the UK. What's of interest to Blackbird fans in this issue is an excerpt from Crickmore's new book about the significant missions. There's also a contest to win a ride in a MiG-29, by cutting coupons from the July, August, and September issues, then answering a question from each of those issues. However it doesn't say when the contest ends, so I don't know if those of us in the states have got a chance, as the magazine doesn't seem to show up on newstands for a month or so after the issue month. Anyone got a sub, and maybe the August or September issue, and some more info? Enjoy! pjr ------------------------------ End of Skunk Works Digest V3 #16 ******************************** 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).