From: skunk-works-digest-owner@mail.orst.edu To: skunk-works-digest@mail.orst.edu Subject: Skunk Works Digest V5 #12 Reply-To: skunk-works-digest@mail.orst.edu Errors-To: skunk-works-digest-owner@mail.orst.edu Precedence: bulk Skunk Works Digest Tuesday, 15 February 1994 Volume 05 : Number 012 In this issue: forwarded message from Mail Delivery Subsystem Apology Re: the 'Hustler', what happened to them TV Alert for March 2, 1994 USS Saratoga 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: sp2stes1@ida.his.se (Stefan 'Stetson' Skoglund) Date: Mon, 14 Feb 94 17:14:12 +0100 Subject: forwarded message from Mail Delivery Subsystem John Erling Blad writes: > Sweden also had a project for making a nuclear bomb, and an asossiated bomber. > This was unveiled some years ago. I dont remember the names, but someone shure This was System-36 - a heavy Draken with space for an Atomic Bomb beneath the engine. A small ThunderChief you could say. An another launch-platform would have been an howitzer. Sweden stil has a bunch of thoose. - - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Stefan 'Stetson' Skoglund I "Viggen | i tiden *)" sp2stes1@ida.his.se I | University of Skoevde, Sweden I _____/0\_____ - - --------------------------------I ____________O(.)O___________ I -+- O -+- I *) Viggen with two Rb04 - ------- End of forwarded message ------- ------------------------------ From: Jack-Lee Gibbons Date: Mon, 14 Feb 1994 10:32:17 -0800 (PST) Subject: Apology I'd like to publicly aplogize to Dave Jordan for flaming him the other day in my message about the Groom Lake land grab. I get a bit sensitive when it comes to the government running over it's citizens to get what it wants and I took it out on Dave. I should have respected his opinions and argued the points not the man. Again, I am sorry and I hope that Dave will continue to post here even if I don't agree with his views, but hey, that's what makes this country great! Jack >:-[ Here thar be monsters! "Hey ho! Let's go!" lumber@netcom.com ------------------------------ From: larry@ichips.intel.com Date: Mon, 14 Feb 1994 14:11:00 -0800 Subject: Re: the 'Hustler', what happened to them Don Smith writes: >... >... . Also, since the >group is on the subject of the 'Hustler', what happened to them, >are they in some Boneyard or what? Duane Mantick, back on Oct. 19, 1990 (same month as the now legendary BLACK aircraft AW&ST issue), published the list of Hustler dispositions. Unfortunately I don't seem to still have the list. I will have to check Miller's Aerograph 4, but I think there were around 8 that survived out of 116 made. Many arrived at the boneyard at the end of 1969. They were all scrapped in the 1977-1978 time frame, if I recall. The 8 surviving airframes are mostly gate guardians and a few are in museums. The best is at the AF Museum in Dayton. This is an old list, and is probably out of date. Anyone that has updated information is encouraged to forward it. It gives you a flavor though of where they were at least. The Edwards AFB photo test range relic (there was talk of restoring this bird or of bringing it in from the range, but I don't know if anything was ever done). This is the same bird that was used to test the Hughes fire control radar for the YF-12A. There is a nice picture of this bird in Miller's Aerograph 4, right after it arrived at Edwards, brand spankin new, with Edwards personnel admiring it somewhere on an Edwards ramp. The AF Museum bird - excellent condition! Grissom AFB - Gate guard Chanute AFB - (Gate guard?) SAC Museum at Offut AFB Nebraska Pima County Air Museum in Arizona - last B-58A built. Fort Worth GD (now Lockheed Fort Worth) Little Rock Ak. (very bad shape as of last report) I also think there might be a TB-58A somewhere as well (a 9th bird?) Larry ------------------------------ From: larry@ichips.intel.com Date: Mon, 14 Feb 1994 17:48:34 -0800 Subject: TV Alert for March 2, 1994 Evidently Steve Douglass will be on Unsolved Mysteries on March 2 with a 7 minute segment. A surprisingly large TV production crew (18 people) was at his house this past weekend shooting the event. His sighting and photographing of the pulser and his sighting and photographing of what has been labelled in the past as the TR-3, were reenacted. There was also an interview conducted as well. Rumor has it that next month's Popular Science will also have his TR-3 story in it. Several people have been at work trying to enhance the image on the TR-3 video. One of the 'Good Morning America' type shows was also recently interested in interviewing him, but so far no additional info. on that. All of this seems to have come out of the recent WIRED Magazine (Feb. 94) article. Larry ------------------------------ From: morgan@spearmint.sfa.ufl.edu (Morgan White) Date: Mon, 14 Feb 94 21:52:46 EST Subject: USS Saratoga The Sara currently stages out of Mayport, Florida. I do not know the squadron numbers but the air wing is comprised of groups from Cecil Field and NAS Jacksonville. She should currently be conducting training ops in the North Atlantic. Morgan ------------------------------ End of Skunk Works Digest V5 #12 ******************************** To subscribe to skunk-works-digest, send the command: subscribe skunk-works-digest in the body of a message to "majordomo@mail.orst.edu". 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