From: skunk-works-digest-owner@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu To: skunk-works-digest@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu Subject: Skunk Works Digest V4 #132 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, 29 January 1994 Volume 04 : Number 132 In this issue: NASA SR-71 over AZ in AW&ST F-14 Ferris picture.. Sea Ghost 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: "Paul Rak" Date: Fri, 28 Jan 1994 07:22:04 -0600 (CST) Subject: NASA SR-71 over AZ in AW&ST There's a small (few paragraph mention) of the flights by NASA's SR-71s over Arizona in the Jan 24, 1994 issue of AvLeak. The article starts on p. 61, the Blackbird mention (and, apparently, a "stock" photo of a NASA 'bird) appears on p. 62. Also, in the index on p. 6, there's the same photo, but a bit bigger (anyone got their scanners warmed up?). Enjoy! pjr ------------------------------ From: clark@acs.bu.edu (Jeff Clark) Date: Fri, 28 Jan 94 13:53:58 -0500 Subject: F-14 Ferris picture.. The .GIF of two F-14s in experimental Ferris splinter camoflage has been sent to the skunk-works archives and should be available once it's taken out of /incoming. A little more info about this scheme.... The aircraft belonged to VF-1 "Wolfpack" squadron operating from the USS Enterprise. I have seen pictures of them at an airfield and also I think I saw an view of the flight deck of the Enterprise with one of them aboard. Real easy to spot, since the 'normal' markings for that squadron are large red stripes with wolf heads on the nose and tail (during that time period. I imagine now they're toned down now into shades of gray) From reading "F-14 in action" (Sqadron/signal press, available at hobby stores) The scheme was an attempt to move away from the brightly colorewd (oops) markings that characterized naval aircraft during the Vietnam era: usually gloss grey on top with white bottoms and all kinds of wildly colored squadron markings that don't fade in the distance like the new gray schemes do. And finally, for those of you who would like to make a model of this scheme: F-14 markings are available in 1/72 and 1/48 scale from SuperScale decals sheet 72-0480 VF-1 Ferris, VF-103, VF-142 - for 1/72 scale sheet 48-0057 " " " " - for 1/48 scale I don't know where you could get info on the F-4 Phantoms in this scheme... Well, that's it. Jeff Clark clark@acs.bu.edu ------------------------------ From: Matthew_Williams@empyr.dircon.co.uk (Matthew Williams) Date: Sat, 29 Jan 94 00:39:35 GMT Subject: Sea Ghost I know it's not exactly Skunky stuff this but anyhow.... If anybody wants it I can EMAIL them a UUencoded .GIF of a Sea Ghost. This is the Steath Boat which is looks like something out of Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back. Covered in that Radar absorbant paint that the F117 is so famous for. Send me an Email and I will Email it back, unless somebody wants to put it onto a FTP site somewhere permanent.... Although the picture isn't super high quality it is worth a look.... /\/\att /\ / \ / \ ^^^^^^ aurora exists... - -- Via DLG Pro v1.0 ------------------------------ End of Skunk Works Digest V4 #132 ********************************* 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).