From: skunk-works-digest-owner@mail.orst.edu To: skunk-works-digest@mail.orst.edu Subject: Skunk Works Digest V5 #127 Reply-To: skunk-works-digest@mail.orst.edu Errors-To: skunk-works-digest-owner@mail.orst.edu Precedence: bulk Skunk Works Digest Sunday, 10 July 1994 Volume 05 : Number 127 In this issue: Re: SR-71 reactivation (multi-use a/c) Re: SR-71 Re: VINDICATOR 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: johnk@consilium.com (John Kelleher) Date: Fri, 8 Jul 94 16:57:24 -0700 Subject: Re: SR-71 reactivation (multi-use a/c) Larry writes: > >Not necessarily. A follow-on may be a larger scope vehicle that can also >do reconnaissance. For example, the old 50's boost-glide concepts were >hypersonic bombers or reconnaissance vehicles Gee Larry, you sound like one of the advisors for Gen. Curtis Lemay back in the formative years of the Strategic Air Command. Faced with a recalcitrant Congress, he was told he could not get all of the B-36 bombers he wanted for his precious SAC. Congress was, however, willing to provide him with whatever recon assets he might need to do his war planning. Thus was born the infamous RB-36 - little more than a B-36 with a hole in the floor for a little camera. We had one of the cameras at the intel school, and it's a funny thing: 10 minutes and a couple of bolts and you had a fully functional B-36 bomb bay! John * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * John Kelleher kelleher@consilium.com (415) 691-6297 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Of course these are my opinions. You think somebody would pay for them? * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ------------------------------ From: dadams@netcom.com (Dean Adams) Date: Sat, 9 Jul 1994 00:35:56 -0700 Subject: Re: SR-71 >If memory has not failed my after all these years, the SR-71 was an >afterthought to an aircraft known as the YF-12, which was developed >as an interceptor. Nope, the Blackbird was conceived and designed from the start to be a reconnaissance aircraft... in the form of the A-12, a follow-on to the increasingly vulnerable U-2. Then came the YF-12, M-12, and finally (of course) the SR-71. ------------------------------ From: Doug Krause Date: Sat, 09 Jul 94 15:05:40 -0700 Subject: Re: VINDICATOR Peter Merlin (Xelex@aol.com) writes: > The only > writing was the word: VINDICATOR. The person wearing the patch said he > couldn't talk about it. Any info out there? Weren't the aircraft in "Fail Safe" called Vindicators? :-) **** Douglas Krause dkrause@uci.edu One yuppie can ruin **** **** University of California, Irvine your whole day. **** **** http://www.uci.edu/indiv/dkrause/www/ Visit the Web today! **** ------------------------------ End of Skunk Works Digest V5 #127 ********************************* 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. Administrative requests, problems, and other non-list mail can be sent to either "skunk-works-digest-owner@mail.orst.edu" or, if you don't like to type a lot, "prm@mail.orst.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 mail.orst.edu, in /pub/skunk-works/digest/vNN.nMMM (where "NN" is the volume number, and "MMM" is the issue number).