From: skunk-works-digest-owner@mail.orst.edu To: skunk-works-digest@mail.orst.edu Subject: Skunk Works Digest V5 #113 Reply-To: skunk-works-digest@mail.orst.edu Errors-To: skunk-works-digest-owner@mail.orst.edu Precedence: bulk Skunk Works Digest Wednesday, 22 June 1994 Volume 05 : Number 113 In this issue: Re: D News! Re: D News! Re: D News! 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: Mary Shafer Date: Tue, 21 Jun 1994 12:02:17 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: D News! I can just see one vertical tip from my office if I really crane my neck. We got the strongback hardware, too, by the way. Regards, Mary Mary Shafer DoD #0362 KotFR shafer@ursa-major.spdcc.com Some days it don't come easy/And some days it don't come hard Some days it don't come at all/And these are the days that never end.... On Mon, 20 Jun 1994, Dean Adams wrote: > > > Today's AW&ST certainly has an interesting bit of news... > It seems that NASA Dryden is now the proud owner of FOUR D-21s! > They were delivered about three weeks ago on two C-17 flights. > > The article says they have no current plans to fly them, but > since the drones are being released to museums they wanted to > acquire some now while they were still available. It also says > their plan would be to launch them from an SR-71. > > Very interesting. Hopefully we'll hear more about this... > ------------------------------ From: larry@ichips.intel.com Date: Tue, 21 Jun 1994 10:59:47 -0700 Subject: Re: D News! Dean Adams writes: >Today's AW&ST certainly has an interesting bit of news... >It seems that NASA Dryden is now the proud owner of FOUR D-21s! >They were delivered about three weeks ago on two C-17 flights. > >The article says they have no current plans to fly them, but >since the drones are being released to museums they wanted to >acquire some now while they were still available. It also says >their plan would be to launch them from an SR-71. Looks like all those models of a D-21 on the back of an SR-71 will possibly be real some day. Mary Shafer responds: >I can just see one vertical tip from my office if I really crane my neck. >We got the strongback hardware, too, by the way. OK, I'll bite. The strongback hardware? I haven't heard that term used, but I can imagine what is included in that. The pylon of course, but, did you get THE POST as well? How about the saddle that the post sits on inside the airplane - or do you just fab. that as well as the fuel tank mods for one of your birds? What else is in the strongback hardware? Thanks. Larry ------------------------------ From: Mary Shafer Date: Tue, 21 Jun 1994 17:25:50 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: D News! As far as I know we got everything--we sent a crew to the Museum and they let us take everthing out of the aircraft. I don't know exactly what is included, just that we got the strongback. I think we mod the fuel tanks ourself. I know that in the discussion of the aerospike engine experiment, they said that Lockheed would fabricate the post, since the one we have wouldn't work. Sounds like we have A post, if not THE post. Regards, Mary Mary Shafer DoD #0362 KotFR shafer@ursa-major.spdcc.com Some days it don't come easy/And some days it don't come hard Some days it don't come at all/And these are the days that never end.... On Tue, 21 Jun 1994 larry@ichips.intel.com wrote: > > > Dean Adams writes: > >Today's AW&ST certainly has an interesting bit of news... > >It seems that NASA Dryden is now the proud owner of FOUR D-21s! > >They were delivered about three weeks ago on two C-17 flights. > > > >The article says they have no current plans to fly them, but > >since the drones are being released to museums they wanted to > >acquire some now while they were still available. It also says > >their plan would be to launch them from an SR-71. > > Looks like all those models of a D-21 on the back of an SR-71 will > possibly be real some day. > > Mary Shafer responds: > >I can just see one vertical tip from my office if I really crane my neck. > >We got the strongback hardware, too, by the way. > > OK, I'll bite. The strongback hardware? I haven't heard that term used, > but I can imagine what is included in that. > > The pylon of course, but, did you get THE POST as well? How about the saddle > that the post sits on inside the airplane - or do you just fab. that as well > as the fuel tank mods for one of your birds? What else is in the strongback > hardware? > > Thanks. > > Larry ------------------------------ End of Skunk Works Digest V5 #113 ********************************* 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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