From: skunk-works-digest-owner@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu To: skunk-works-digest@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu Subject: Skunk Works Digest V4 #57 Reply-To: skunk-works-digest@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu Errors-To: skunk-works-digest-owner@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu Precedence: bulk Skunk Works Digest Sunday, 7 November 1993 Volume 04 : Number 057 In this issue: Re: Skunk Works Digest V4 #56 Re: Not much going on in the list. 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: "Rod Beckwith" Date: Sat, 6 Nov 1993 08:44:09 -0800 Subject: Re: Skunk Works Digest V4 #56 Hello fellow Skunkers, I was curious if anyone has catalogged the ascii art on peoples .sigs. It would be nice to have a collection of these aircraft. Rod ------------------------------ From: Rich Thomson Date: Sat, 06 Nov 93 15:08:50 MST Subject: Re: Not much going on in the list. In message <9311052244.AA17982@pdx097.intel.com> larry@ichips.intel.com writes: > There is also a column by Glen Campbell of "Area 51 Viewers Guide" fame as > well in this issue. Nothing new to report except that there is a map of > where Freedom Ridge is, as well as other sites (only the ones to the east > of Groom seem to be shown on this map). The map is a repro of the actual > USAF map used to request more land from the BLM. Maybe the USAF didn't try > to lock away the northern sites under the Groom runway! Hmm... I've pored over the maps of the area. Since Groom Lake is at the north-eastern corner of the Nevada Test Site, they don't have to worry about unauthorized observation from the west and south so much. The topography of the area is the typical "basin and range" province type topography. The area between the Wasatch front in Utah and the Sierras on the California/Nevada border consists of a series of North-South trending ranges with intervening basins. White Sides mountain, the area currently being withdrawn from public access by the BLM, lies along such a N-S trending range to the east of Groom Lake (which is a basin S/SW of the Groom Range and N/NE of the Papoose Range). Papoose Lake is even futher occluded by the Papoose Range as it lies S/SW of the Range. It might be possible to obtain an unobstructed view of the Groom Lake base from farther away on a higher range spot to the E/NE of the Lake. However, seeing anything useful from that distance might be problematic. -- Rich - -- Between stimulus and response is the will to choose. ------------------------------------------------------------------ IRC: _Rich_ Rich Thomson Internet: rthomson@dsd.es.com Fractal Freak ------------------------------ End of Skunk Works Digest V4 #57 ******************************** 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).