From: skunk-works-digest-owner@mail.orst.edu To: skunk-works-digest@mail.orst.edu Subject: Skunk Works Digest V5 #60 Reply-To: skunk-works-digest@mail.orst.edu Errors-To: skunk-works-digest-owner@mail.orst.edu Precedence: bulk Skunk Works Digest Monday, 11 April 1994 Volume 05 : Number 060 In this issue: Digest my first posting... a useful mailing list for research C-130s used in Iranian Hostage Rescue Mission 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: mikek@cscns.com (Mike Keithly) Date: Sun, 10 Apr 1994 09:55:25 -0600 (MDT) Subject: Digest Just wondering if my subscription to Skunk Works Digest is sent here to me or how do I get it..? Thanks - -- mikek@cscns.com ------------------------------ From: Leroy L Wolff Date: Sun, 10 Apr 1994 13:28:58 -0500 (CDT) Subject: my first posting... Hello fellow aircraft enthusiasts! I would like to share with you one of my experiences which I found thrilling. Back in 84' I was working for a local plumbing shop in Grand Forks , North Dakota. I was sent to the Grand Forks Air Force Base to install a humidifier in the Flight Simulation Building. It just so happened that my uncle was an employee in the building, he was some sort of supervisor, in charge of electronic maint. Well anyway, after I finished installing the humidifier, my uncle asked me if I wanted to go for a ride in a B-52. I said "you bet I do!" . There was a B-52 pilot waiting to get into the simulator, and my uncle asked him if he would take his nephew for a ride in the simulator. The pilot said "sure no problem", so the pilot and I walked across a cat walk, about fifteen feet up, into an actual B-52 fuselage. The partial fuselage was mounted on four huge hydraulic struts. So when you were "flying" the cockpit would move around to add to the realism of the flight. I sat down in the right seat and put on a set of head phones and sat back and watched the pilot "fly" the B-52. All the gauges on the dash board appeared to be in working order. And when I looked out the windshield I could see a computer generated image of the landing field and I could see Grand Forks, and the surrounding country side. We flew along for awhile and then linked up with a tanker plane and went through a refueling. The whole time this was going on my heart was pounding and I was saying to myself, "This is sooo Cool!" "Neat!" Of course my ride in the B-52 was way to short, I could have flew in that contraption for hours on end! The Flight Simulation Building is quite a place. It is full of main frame type computers from one end to the other. I was told that there is only one source of heat for the building and that's the computers. In fact the building requires cooling year round. It gets mighty cold in North Dakota during the winter. Just doesn't seem right to me to not have some type of furnace to provide heat. The floor was made out of perforated tiles and they can be lifted out to gain access to the miles of cables under the floor. Cold air is forced under the floor and comes up through the holes in the perforated floor tiles, there by keeping the computers nice and cool. Well that's about it for my story, I am looking forward to reading my new skunk-works magazine for similar stories. LEROY LOUIS WOLFF JR. lwolff@plains.nodak.edu ------------------------------ From: TRADER@cup.portal.com Date: Sun, 10 Apr 94 16:02:31 PDT Subject: a useful mailing list for research Since I do a lot of research with military documents, I feel that I should let Skunk Works Digest know about another mailing list dedicated strictly to government documents. As well as discussing government documents, people post "Needs & Offers" (i.e., I have this document that I can make copies of), and they have a searchable database of previous messages. To subscribe, send a message to: listserv@psuvm.psu.edu In the body of the message, include this line: subscribe govdoc-l your_first_name your_last_name i.e., subscribe govdoc-l Jane Doe You will receive an introductory message telling you how to use the service. Paul McGinnis / TRADER@cup.portal.com ------------------------------ From: clark@acs.bu.edu (Jeff Clark) Date: Sun, 10 Apr 94 20:44:01 -0400 Subject: C-130s used in Iranian Hostage Rescue Mission I was reading a book on special versions of the C-130 ("Colors & Markings, C-130 Special versions", by Bert Kinzey). In the preface the book states they found information on a few C-130s modified for STOL for use in the 1980(? I forget) hostage rescue mission in Iran. The author states he was able to take pictures of them on the ground, and in flight, but that the Air Force asked him not to publish them, and he agreed. The book is now about 5 or 6 years old. So, has anyone ever seen these aircraft? Do they look really different? Inquiring minds want to know! Jeff Clark clark@acs.bu.edu ------------------------------ End of Skunk Works Digest V5 #60 ******************************** To subscribe to skunk-works-digest, send the command: subscribe skunk-works-digest in the body of a message to "majordomo@mail.orst.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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