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Subject:   Skunk Works Digest V3 #33
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Skunk Works Digest           Monday, 3 May 1993         Volume 03 : Number 033

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	Sorry for the misdirected post
	Re: mach 1 mil craft

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From: beagle!chandler@PacBell.COM (Jim Chandler)
Date: Sun, 02 May 93 07:56:42 PST
Subject: Sorry for the misdirected post

Please disregard my last post.  I hope that the moderator will yank it
before it gets out.  I was meant for a different group and inadvertently
got sent to the 'skunkers'.  Sorry for the extra bandwidth.

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From: Mary Shafer <shafer@spdcc.com>
Date: Sun, 2 May 1993 20:04:44 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: mach 1 mil craft

The FAA only has jurisdiction over _private_ aviation.  Public aviation,
including the military, NASA, and the California Highway Patrol, is not
governed by FAA rules, except as the public agency chooses to be so governed.

We (NASA Dryden) have registered our aircraft with the FAA--they have
N numbers.  They do not, however, have any sort of certification, nor
are they marked and flown as experimental.  Our SR-71s have N numbers,
but no type certificates.  Our pilots have NASA physicals and not FAA
physicals, too.  Furthermore, NASA has a block of N numbers and we assign
them at will.

On the other hand, we have an NMI (NASA Management Instruction) that
says that we'll do things the FAA way as much as possible, particularly
when we're in their airspace.  The Air Force has similar directives, as
do most other agencies, I'm sure.

Mary Shafer  DoD #0362 KotFR  shafer@ursa-major.spdcc.com



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