From: skunk-works-digest-owner@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu To: skunk-works-digest@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu Subject: Skunk Works Digest V3 #64 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, 19 June 1993 Volume 03 : Number 064 In this issue: 3d planes Re: Skunk Works Digest V3 #63 guncameras DC-X article available 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: John Erling Blad Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1993 15:20:02 +0200 Subject: 3d planes Hi! I looking for 3d models of planes, especialy f117 in Autocads dxf format. Are there anybody with a pointer out in netland? Other objects such as ships are also interesting. If the actual format is other than dxf I must know how to transform it. There are some files with the ending .obj, anyone out there who know what kind of file that are? John ------------------------------ From: jgladu@bcm.tmc.edu (John Gladu) Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1993 09:25:42 -0600 Subject: Re: Skunk Works Digest V3 #63 Not that it really fits this group, but... >He stated that he thought at first the object appeared to >be a weather ballon, until he got closer & realized that the object was >metallic >& looked like a saucer on its edge. He banked to take another pass at the thing >& it began to fly away rapidly, he then stated that he tried to give chase, but >with an old piston fighter he was totally outclassed. He also wished he had >some >gun camera film loaded, because he would have had some great shots of it. "Shots" of it? Don't you have to fire the guns to run the camera? The subject of the photographs might conceivably take offense at this type of photography... bcnu - G (John Gladu) .Opinions are just that. Systems Support Center -- Baylor College of Medicine INTERNET: jgladu@bcm.tmc.edu | VOICE: (713)798-7370 US MAIL: One Baylor Plaza, Houston, Texas 77030 ------------------------------ From: I am the NRA Date: Fri, 18 Jun 93 08:12:32 PDT Subject: guncameras John Gladu wrote: >Not that it really fits this group, but... >>He stated that he thought at first the object appeared to be a weather ballon, >>until he got closer & realized that the object was metallic & looked like a >>saucer on its edge. He banked to take another pass at the thing & it began to >>fly away rapidly, he then stated that he tried to give chase, but with an old >>piston fighter he was totally outclassed. He also wished he had some gun >>camera film loaded, because he would have had some great shots of it. >"Shots" of it? Don't you have to fire the guns to run the camera? The >subject of the photographs might conceivably take offense at this type of >photography... In many cases, the guns switch has/had two positions: Partial squeeze gets camera only (for "opportunistic recon)[1]. Pull all the way, and (guns being armed, loaded, etc) the guns fire. I disrecall where I heard that, but i regarded it as authoritative. In fact, if (whomever) was just out riding around (as i recall the original post) there may not have been any ammo in the plane. ("riding around" == "navigation exercise", "check ride after overhaul", "test new/rebuiilt radio equipment" (== riding around.. 8)>>)) The gun cameras were installed, in part, to meet a requirement of international law to keep track of WHAT the weapons were fired at. rumor has it that sometimes the switch got "accidetnally" rewired, during maintainance, to reverse the functions. [1] Yeah. That 16MM gunsite camera is no K21, but its better than no pix at all... regards dwp ------------------------------ From: "Philip R. Moyer" Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1993 13:24:20 EST Subject: DC-X article available The DC-X news article that Russ Schnapp spoke of has been put in the skunk-works archive. You can get it via anonymous ftp to harbor.ecn.purdue.edu; the path is /pub/skunk-works/articles/DC-X. Enjoy. Thanks for sending it to me for inclusion in the archive, Russ! Cheers, Phil ------------------------------ End of Skunk Works Digest V3 #64 ******************************** 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. 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