From: skunk-works-digest-owner@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu To: skunk-works-digest@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu Subject: Skunk Works Digest V4 #119 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, 16 January 1994 Volume 04 : Number 119 In this issue: LADC info MD-21 Exists AGAIN!! 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: V063JBVK@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu Date: Sat, 15 Jan 1994 15:13:59 -0500 (EST) Subject: LADC info I am a mechanical engineering student at the University of Buffalo and have reached the end of my four glorious years of studying and good times. I graduate this Spring and am not at all happy with the employment outlook for this year. Already three good interviews, even with the promise that the companies would be happy to see me for the second round, have dried up. I still hanging in the search and picking up the pace, but I need a little help. Would anyone out there in Skunk Land possibly know someone who works for LADC and would give me the opportunity to talk with them about employment opportunities for BS Mech. Eng. degrees. If no direct contacts are possible then how about the phone number for the LADC personnel dept. I have their address but no number to follow up my letters with. I'm not even sure that they employ green students like myself but it's worth a try. I have been addicted to the 'black world' aircraft programs for many years now and my dream job would be a design engineer at LADC. (I still allowed to have these ignorant fantasies at 22 years old!) Thanks to all who have and continue to enlighten me with all your knowledge. I am often thoroughly impressed by what I read. Although I'd like to take pride in my collection of AW&ST black aircraft articles it usually pales in comparison to the depth of knowledge I see every day on the list. Thanks in advance to anyone who can help. Chris ------------------------------ From: larry@ichips.intel.com Date: Sat, 15 Jan 1994 16:18:17 -0800 Subject: MD-21 Exists AGAIN!! My best wishes to the party at the Groom Lake outlooks this weekend. I wish I could go, but I had a date to see the reunion of one of the grand old ladies of The Lake and one of her offspring, last night in Seattle. I am pleased to be able to say that as of this moment there is a D-21 mated to an M-21 at the Seattle Museum of Flight. All went well during the process. The D is now covered with a black sheet until her unveiling next weekend to the public. Marcus and Rita, who were in charge of the restoration of the D, did a magnificent job, as did Mark Smith who was in charge of restoration of the M. We obviously can't forget Lockheed and the many past workers on TAGBOARD who helped make this real, and sponsors at the CIA and the USAF, as well as management at SMOF. After restoring the M, Mark Smith had left SMOF to start his own aircraft restoration business in Wash. state. It was a great surprise to see him when I arrived last night, up on the back of the M helping to lower the D down and attach them together, creating the MD-21. WOW!! It has now been 30 years since the MD-21 configuration was first done. AWESOME! Those of you who will be in the Seattle area next weekend or after, should not miss the opportunity to see this exhibit! The D looks like a small black supersonic bat up there! WOW I'll give a full report very soon. Larry ------------------------------ End of Skunk Works Digest V4 #119 ********************************* 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).