From: skunk-works-digest-owner@mail.orst.edu To: skunk-works-digest@mail.orst.edu Subject: Skunk Works Digest V5 #105 Reply-To: skunk-works-digest@mail.orst.edu Errors-To: skunk-works-digest-owner@mail.orst.edu Precedence: bulk Skunk Works Digest Saturday, 11 June 1994 Volume 05 : Number 105 In this issue: Doughnuts on a rope (again and again) SAS Update Re: NEON AZTEC So Long For Now US Military Aircraft Serial/Identification Numbers 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: "john (j.m.) clarke" Date: Fri, 10 Jun 1994 13:26:00 -0400 Subject: Doughnuts on a rope (again and again) I hate to burst the myth of the doughnuts on a rope contrail, but I spotted one over my house here in Ottawa. I couldn't see the plane that made it, and I was hopping mad. That is, I was hopping mad until I realized that I saw another plane coming towards me (B-747) making the exact same contrail! Just shortly after that there was another one (I live under a fairly busy traffic lane to YYZ). I've seen the original picture, and all of these contrails looked exactly the same. Must have been some strange crosswinds... John jclarke@bnr.ca ------------------------------ From: zoz@cs.adelaide.edu.au (Night Mission) Date: Tue, 7 Jun 1994 02:59:56 +0930 (CST) Subject: SAS Update Hey, is anyone here familiar with the e-mail update on DC-X and SSTO called 'Space Access Society Update' and run by a guy called something like Henry Vanderbilt? I used to get it every week or so, but I seem to have gotten desubscribed, so I was wondering if anyone remembered the request address so I could try and resubscribe myself. I seem to remember Russ mentioning it here before, am I mistaken? Thanks, - -- ______ _____________ ______________________ ______ /\####/\ / / / / /\####/\ / \##/ \ /_______ / / _ ______ / / \##/ \ /____\/____\ / / / / \ \ / / /____\/____\ \####/\####/ / /____\ \_/ / / /_______ \####/\####/ \##/ \##/ / / / / \##/ \##/ \/____\/ /_____________________/ /____________/ \/____\/ zoz@cs.adelaide.edu.au ------------------------------ From: "Jeff Nanis" Date: Mon, 6 Jun 94 15:14:52 -0400 Subject: Re: NEON AZTEC Well, folks, count me in. I'm on his subscription list. I see nothing wrong with reading other people's speculations on programs I may know nothing about. Think of me as a guinea pig. If anyone I work for DOES care what I read and I get slammed for it (and I've gotten "cautionary" notices for posting without thinking in the past), I will be sure to let you know. If on the other hand, I continue to occasionally send innocuous, tecnical, non-programmatic e-mail and posts (mostly to sci.military), rest assured, my civil liberties (and yours) and my job security have not been infringed upon. Chill, people. I think there's a little too much self-generated paranoia floating around. Anyone who cares to discuss this with me off-line, send e-mail or snail mail or phone. Jeff Nanis 9 Hamlin Street Cambridge, MA 02141 (617) 497-9265 Jeff Nanis MIT Lincoln Laboratory ------------------------------ From: Bruce Henderson Date: Fri, 10 Jun 94 13:35:31 -0700 Subject: So Long For Now I have really enjoyed hangin with all of you... But I just fell victim to a layoff.... I will be back. In the mean time if anyone needs to E-Mail me Bruce Henderson <73163.1122@CompuServe.COM> is where I will be Bruce ------------------------------ From: The Space Wastrel Date: Fri, 10 Jun 1994 22:20:44 -0400 (EDT) Subject: US Military Aircraft Serial/Identification Numbers I realize that this is a little off-topic but this list is the only real contact I have with the military aviation world. I'd be happy to receive answers directly through email. A friend of mine (without Internet access) is interested in the serial or identification numbers of all US military aircraft, that is USAF, USN, USMC, USCG and the U.S. Army. He knows that the USN and USMC assign sequential numbers to their aircraft on a one-up basis and that the USAF and Army allocate serial number against fiscal years. He has fairly complete lists up to 1985 but would like to know: a) Where he could lists of serial numbers for 1986 to the present b) If there is a way he can subscribe or otherwise regularly receive updates to the lists. Thanks for your help. TSW #######################The Space Wastrel in Washington####################### At scenes of slayings, wailing girlfriends and wives in maternity clothes try to break through police barricades, and young women with small children grab at body bags. At funerals, pregnant young women fling themselves on coffins, wailing in sorrow. ######################The Washington Post, 10 June 1993###################### ------------------------------ End of Skunk Works Digest V5 #105 ********************************* 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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