From: skunk-works-digest-owner@mail.orst.edu To: skunk-works-digest@mail.orst.edu Subject: Skunk Works Digest V5 #175 Reply-To: skunk-works-digest@mail.orst.edu Errors-To: skunk-works-digest-owner@mail.orst.edu Precedence: bulk Skunk Works Digest Sunday, 25 December 1994 Volume 05 : Number 175 In this issue: Re: lenticular vehicles Beware of C-5's carrying strange 'shapes' RE: Report on Boscombe Down incident Re: More A-17 Re: More A-17 Aurora F-117 article Re: F-117 article Re: Beware of C-5's carrying strange 'shapes' Ben Rich book available from Area 51 Research Center possible classified areas "Fantasy Island" ?!? Re: "Fantasy Island" ?!? 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: larry@ichips.intel.com Date: Wed, 21 Dec 1994 01:03:43 -0800 Subject: Re: lenticular vehicles I promised to look up that reference to a disk-shaped reentry vehicle last Friday. The reference is as follows: "Landable Disk Re-Entry Vehicles", by P.A. Giragosian and W.D. Hoffman Advanced Program Department Aircraft-Missiles Division Fairchild-Stratos Corp It appeared in: Symposium On Dynamics Of Manned Lifting Planetary Entry Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; October 1962 Sponsored by: Air Force Office of Scientific Research, and General Electric Company, Space Sciences Laboratory The design was interesting. Basically, the idea was to take a circular acorn-type reentry vehicle with a normal heat shield and change it into a vehicle that has the same heat shield footprint, but a more significant subsonic L/D for normal horizontal landing. To do that the circular footprint was retained but the top of the vehicle was designed essentially reflecting the curvature of the heat shield on the bottom, giving the classical disk shape. There were two vertical stabilizers added for subsonic flight. These stabilizers were in the shadow of the heat shield during reentry, and therefore protected. There were a few other control flaps on the vehicle as well. There was also a classic cockpit bulge or cupola on the top. The hypersonic L/D at an alpha of 60 degrees during reentry was 0.6 The subsonic L/D for approach and landing at an alpha of 10 deg. was 5.3 Models were built and tested in a subsonic wind tunnel. There are numerous aerodynamic performance curves and numerous wind tunnel tuft study photographs showing the flow patters over the model. Neat looking aircraft/spacecraft! It also had a 3-point landing gear system. Larry ------------------------------ From: larry@ichips.intel.com Date: Wed, 21 Dec 1994 01:47:46 -0800 Subject: Beware of C-5's carrying strange 'shapes' Since evidently many people know this rumor, because I keep seeing hints about it everywhere I go on the Net, and heck, since it got PUBLISHED in Air International in the November 1994 issue !! it is now silly not to post it. Rene Francillon, who is actually probably the FIRST writer to ever publish anything about what we now call 'AURORA', for lack of a better name (he wrote about it 3-4 years BEFORE the 1985 budget document gaffe!! - it wasn't known as 'Aurora' then), has written a nice piece on the Lockheed C-5 in the November Air International starting on pg 268 (runs to pg 275). He states the following on pg 275: "Recent developments in the C-5 programme include removal of the upper troop deck from two C-5A's (68-0213 and 68-0216) and modifications of their rear loading doors to enable loads for the Space Shuttle to be airlifted without being dismantled. These two aircraft, which are assigned to the 60th Airlift Wing at Travis AFB, have now been designated as C-5Cs. (Some unofficial sources claim the modification also enables the C-5Cs to be used for covert transportation of strange 'shapes' between Lockheed's California plants and the test centre at Groom Lake, Nevada. Obviously, this claim remains 'neither denied nor confirmed' by government or corporate officials and may well be spurious.)" Dennis Jenkins, who wrote THE definitive public book on the Space Shuttle (GREAT BOOK!) had this to say about these C-5's recently on rec.aviation.military. At the time he was answering a question about the cargo sizes that can be carried by the C-5 (abviously another Net'er trying to find out information about the same thing :) ): "BTW, the Air Force has at least one (and I believe two) specially modified C-5As that can carry slightly larger payloads (they rearranged some internal structure so that they could carry some Titan IV space payloads)." This story harkens one back to the November 1988 Popular Science cover story on 'Aurora'. The one where the 'Aurora' was launched out the back of a C-5 (similar to the mid-1970's drop and then ignition of a Minuteman ballistic missile out the back of a C-5). The C-5 angle is back again. Larry ------------------------------ From: "Dave Hastings, OUCS" Date: Wed, 21 Dec 1994 09:55:01 +0000 Subject: RE: Report on Boscombe Down incident > For those of us who don't have access to the Electronic Telegraph, could someone > summarize the article for the list, in a non-violation of copyright kind of > way? > > Thanks, > George > > The story is that something black crashed (or crash-landed) at Boscombe Down (the UK equiv of Edwards AFB) on 26th September 1994, possibly killing the crew of two. Whatever it was (the story says a TR-3 Black Manta) was hurridly removed to Palmdale by a C-5. In the two weeks after the incident, a civilian Boeing 737 with the apparently non-existant serial of N1178X, and a Gulfstream IV, arrived at Boscombe. Both the MoD and the Pentagon "firmly deny that there was ever any incident at Boscombe Down", yet roads round the base were closed after the "incident" - the MoD said that this was to allow the "recovery of a Tornado testing highly classified missile warning equipment". Also, the tarpaulin allegedly covering the black aircraft was really covering some sort of helicopter landing rig. Dave David Hastings | "Life's too short to waste time VAX Systems Programmer | chitchatting with machines for Oxford University Computing Services | no good reason" - JM daveh@vax.oxford.ac.uk | ------------------------------ From: larry@ichips.intel.com Date: Wed, 21 Dec 1994 02:16:00 -0800 Subject: Re: More A-17 >It just occurred to me that the link between an ATF/F-22 and a presumptive A-17 >may be grounded in some reality. Prior to the formal creation of the ATF >program, future USAF fighter technology was studied under the FXX program. This >had two components: FXX-A looked at air superiority issues, and FXX-B looked at >the deep strike/F-111 replacement problem. Interesting! Good thinking!! Got a reference? Neat! >For me, the big argument against A-17 is the existence of the A-12 Dorito >program during the same period. The USAF was on record as intending to buy a >USAF A-12 variant to replace the 111. Even considering the largesse of the day, >it seems unlikely that two large stealth ground attack programs would have been >approved. No, you're right, but I recall that USAF gave the impression during the A-12 Avenger II program that they left their options open, BUT they really DIDN'T want to buy any A-12's! Coupled with the fact that they didn't want ANY new F-117's after the Gulf War, because it was OBSOLETE (their words not mine - and when has the USAF ever turned down a blank check from Congress anyway). Also recall that Lockheed offered to modify the F-117 for additional missions after the Gulf War. The USAF didn't want that either. Sam Nunn was even willing to run the funding through Congress himself! I say again: The USAF turned down a blank check after the Gulf War. The USAF doesn't have a F-117A successor program public either, but of course, the original F-117A program wasn't public, so why should we expect it's successor to be? Very interesting observation George! Larry ------------------------------ From: George Allegrezza 21-Dec-1994 1030 Date: Wed, 21 Dec 94 10:29:35 EST Subject: Re: More A-17 Larry Smith writes: >>It just occurred to me that the link between an ATF/F-22 and a presumptive >>A-17 may be grounded in some reality. Prior to the formal creation of the ATF >>program, future USAF fighter technology was studied under the FXX program. >>This had two components: FXX-A looked at air superiority issues, and FXX-B >>looked at the deep strike/F-111 replacement problem. >Interesting! Good thinking!! >Got a reference? Neat! It's in a 1979 issue of Av. Leak that I have around somewhere. I'll look for it over the holidays. George George Allegrezza | Digital Equipment Corporation | "Every time I'm overtaken by my own wheel, Mobile Systems Business | I know I'm in a Lotus." Littleton MA USA | -- Graham Hill allegrezza@tnpubs.enet.dec.com | ------------------------------ From: jburtens@bournemouth.ac.uk (John Burtenshaw) Date: Wed, 21 Dec 1994 16:01:56 +0000 Subject: Aurora Is there any truth in the report that I read earlier this year that "Aurora" is about 200 feet in length and resembles the XB-70? Has anyone got any "firm" details of this aircraft? If so please let could they contact me. TIA ============================================================================= John Burtenshaw BOURNEMOUTH System Administrator, The Computer Centre UNIVERSITY - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - -Postal Address: Talbot Campus, Fern Barrow, POOLE, Dorset, BH12 5BB Internet: jburtens@bournemouth.ac.uk Phone: 01202 595089 Fax: 01202 513293 Packet Radio: G1HOK @ GB7BNM.#45.GBR.EU AMPRnet: G1HOK.ampr.org. [44.131.17.82] Compuserve: 10033,3113 ============================================================================= ------------------------------ From: "Jeffrey D. Flamm" Date: Wed, 21 Dec 1994 16:08:20 -0500 Subject: F-117 article - --part_AB1E03740053510000000002 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: Inline Skunkers, The volume 19 Winter 1994 issue of World Airpower Journal has a very detailed writeup of the development of the F-117 including many photos of both a/c #780 and HB1002. Jeff - --part_AB1E03740053510000000002 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: Inline +----------------------------------------------+ | Jeffrey D. Flamm | | | NASA Langley Research Center | | Hampton VA | | | | email: j.d.flamm@larc.nasa.gov | | | | All opinions are my own | +----------------------------------------------+ - --part_AB1E03740053510000000002-- ------------------------------ From: Tim Dodero Date: Wed, 21 Dec 1994 17:46:02 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: F-117 article On Wed, 21 Dec 1994, Jeffrey D. Flamm wrote: > Skunkers, > > The volume 19 Winter 1994 issue of World Airpower Journal has a very detailed > writeup of the development of the F-117 including many photos of both a/c #780 > and HB1002. > > > Jeff > Wasn't that a great article! I thoroughly enjoyed it. Top-Rate! The author did a really great job on the write-up. Although not as detailed as Rich's book(obviously), it was nice to get an insider's view from the pilots prospective. WAPJ always does a first-rate job on military aircraft. Capt Tim ------------------------------ From: Kathryn & Andreas Gehrs-Pahl Date: Thu, 22 Dec 1994 23:54:20 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: Beware of C-5's carrying strange 'shapes' Larry wrote about the C-5C (mentioned in Air International 11/94). I read a short notice about the modification of two C-5C several months ago in AW&ST (probably in 'Breaking News'). Of course they didn't mention the serials (which I 'collect'), and all C-5 crew members I ever asked (at airshows etc.) had never even heard of C-5Cs. I finally posted a request on rec.aviation.military, to which I got the following email replay: [begin of email] >Date: Thu, 11 Aug 94 12:58:34 EDT >From: netzel@iron.afsac.wpafb.af.mil >Subject: Re: C-5 Galaxy >In rec.aviation.military you write: >>From: Andreas Gehrs-Pahl >>I read in a magazine (AW&ST maybe) last year (or early this year?) that two >>C-5 Galaxy were converted (by Lockheed?) to C-5C standard. I seem to remember >>they were used to transport extra heavy loads, and the modification would >>have been something like strengthening the floor. I haven't heard anything >>about a C-5C version since, and if someone can tell me, I would like to know: >>- Are any C-5s converted to C-5C? >yes >>- If yes: - Which aircraft (serial or c/n) >only 2, SN not available >> - Why and for what specific reason (loads) >..as far as I know it was classified, however the modification itself >was not classified, in fact it is in all of the C-5 >maintenance/operations manuals as supplementary data so that any C-5 >base could work the a/c. >> - What exactly was changed (list / description of modifications) >the entire upper deck from the cockpit back over the cargo >compartment, includes rerouting all control cables, >electrical/hydraulic/pneumatic lines etc.....at least that was what >was planned before I left the program... It was called the "space >cargo mod" and had nothing to do with Outer Space.... [end of email] BTW, the 'United States Air Force Yearbook 1994' lists these two aircraft in the inventory of the 15th AF/60th AW/21st ALS and 22nd ALS (this was also printed in 4 parts in Air International Feb/Mar/Apr/May 94). So I guess, it wasn't too secret at all that they exist, just what they are used for. :) - -- Andreas - --- --- Andreas & Kathryn Gehrs-Pahl Absolute Software 313 West Court St. #305 schnars@umcc.ais.org Flint, MI 48502-1239 Tel: (810) 238-8469 - --- --- ------------------------------ From: PsychoServ@aol.com Date: Fri, 23 Dec 1994 12:17:28 -0500 Subject: Ben Rich book available from Area 51 Research Center Adrian Thurlow asks: >Please could someone post the address and telephone number ( and e-mail >address?) of a book shop that holds this title and will accept orders from >overseas. The Ben Rich book is available from me at the "Area 51 Research Center." Price is $24.95 plus postage.... $3.50 priority mail to the U.S. $4.50 Canada via Airmail $11.00 to Europe or South America via Airmail $14.00 to Asia or Africa via Airmail $15.00 to Pacific Rim via Airmail $5.00 to anywhere in the world via surface mail (2-3 months) Title: "Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of my Years at Lockheed" by Ben Rich and Leo Janos. Send check/cheque (drawn on US bank) or postal money order in USD to... Area 51 Research Center HCR Box 38 Rachel, NV 89001 USA The Area 51 Research Center is a semi-non-profit "giving 'em hell at the border" research and networking organization housed in a mobile home about 20 mile north of Groom Lake. Your purchase supports the cause! Catalog available upon request, via email or snail mail. Psychospy ------------------------------ From: TRADER@cup.portal.com Date: Sat, 24 Dec 94 15:53:12 PST Subject: possible classified areas [I apologize for not being online much lately, but I've been quite busy with work, and various secrecy research projects currently under way. I hope you find the following to be of use.] Possible locations of classified military facilities ____________________________________________________ by Paul McGinnis, December 24, 1994 I've been thinking about an interesting question lately -- are there other places that are as classified as the secret U.S. Air Force air base at Groom Lake, Nevada, and, if so, how would someone know where to start looking for such a place? A way of finding classified areas occurred to me while studying Defense Mapping Agency aeronautical charts. On a floor, I had pieced together 3 very large Tactical Pilot Charts (TPC G-18R, TPC G-19C, and TPC G-19D) By folding parts of the charts and aligning them together, I had managed to create a giant map showing the airspace over Southern California and Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, and little part of Texas. Looking at all the blue "boxes" used by our military for Restricted airspaces and Military Operating Areas (MOAs), I realized that I could find areas to study further by finding "boxes" similar to the one covering the air space around the Groom Lake facility. Hundreds of military controlled zones are listed in the DMA publication "Area Planning-Special Use Airspace". These are published once a year, with 2 supplements. I happen to subscribe to the Special Use Airspace publication for North and South America (DMA item number AP/1A). The most recent edition is dated October 13, 1994. (Defense Mapping Agency sources are listed at the end of this report.) I came up with some criteria that could be used in the search. I admit that these are arbitrary choices, but they allow one to discard most of the "boxes", thus narrowing the choices. My criteria are: (1) The area must have a ceiling of at least 60,000 feet (18.46 km) to prevent civilian aircraft from flying over the area. Also, this would tend to discourage military pilots who might get curious and try to fly above the prohibited area. (There are very few aircraft that can fly this high.) The area over Groom Lake has an unlimited ceiling, although one wonders how low orbiting satellites can be stopped from passing over the area. (2) The area must have a constant flying restriction, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. This eliminates a number of potential areas because flying is only prohibited by advance notice (NOTAMS), or during daytime hours on weekdays. This gave me the following list of potential classified areas of interest to the U.S. military. While I realize that some of these areas have flying restrictions because missiles are fired in these ranges, that still leaves other locations that need further research. Also, some of these areas are quite large. For example, R-5107B in New Mexico covers an area of approximately 4,500 square miles (11,520 square km.) although there may only be one highly classified activity in the "box". U.S. LOCATIONS ______________ Area Number Description and comments ___________ _______________________________________________________ R-2306A Yuma West, Arizona (Yuma Proving Ground) R-2306B Yuma West, Arizona R-2306E Yuma West, Arizona R-2307 Yuma, Arizona (there is also a tethered balloon on 15,000 foot (4615 meter) cables that carries a radar pointed south, used to detect drug smugglers. This is located near the northwest part of R-2307) R-2308B Yuma East, Arizona R-2501E Bullion Mountain East, California (Twentynine Palms Marine Corps Base) R-2501N Bullion Mountain North, California R-2501S Bullion Mountain South, California R-2501W Bullion Mountain West, California R-2502E Fort Irwin, California R-2502N Fort Irwin, California (also includes NASA's Goldstone facility). R-2505 China Lake, California (western part of China Lake Naval Air Warfare Center) R-2515 Muroc Lake, California (Edwards Air Force Base (AFB)) R-2516 Vandenberg AFB, California R-2517 Vandenberg AFB, California R-2519 Point Mugu, California (U.S Navy - Pacific missile test range) R-2524 Trona, California (eastern part of China Lake Naval Air Warfare Center. Includes the "highly classified" electronic warfare facility, the Randsburg Wash Test Range, also known as "Sea Site I") R-2914A Valparaiso, Florida (Eglin AFB, Air Force Development Test Center (AFDTC)) R-2915A Eglin AFB, Florida R-2915B Eglin AFB, Florida R-2918 Valparaiso, Florida R-2919A Valparaiso, Florida R-4806W Las Vegas, Nevada (Nellis Air Force Base) R-4807A Tonopah, Nevada R-4807B Tonopah, Nevada R-4808N Las Vegas, Nevada (R-4808N covers both the Nevada Test Site, and the Dreamland "box" around Groom Lake, which is the rectangular region in the northeast of R-4808N) R-4809 Tonopah, Nevada (R-4809 covers Tonopah Test Range, used for activities such as F-117 fighter testing and Department of Energy programs, such as nuclear rocket testing in the 1960s) R-5107A White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico R-5107B White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico (I'm currently investigating something in this area that showed up on a satellite picture. This anomaly is east of Skillet Knob peak. R-5107B also includes Holloman AFB) R-6604 Chincoteague Inlet, Virginia (used by NASA's Wallops Island rocket facility) (the following locations might also be of interest -- they are "educated guesses" based on the nature of the location, or U.S. operations there.) OTHER LOCATIONS IN NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICA __________________________________________ Area Number Description and comments ___________ _______________________________________________________ SAP6 Puerto Belgrano, Argentina SBP-320 Itaborai, Brazil CYR204 Cold Lake Air Weapons Range, Alberta and Saskatchewan, Canada. (Well known for the large Maple Flag military exercises.) SCP3 Isla Dawson, Chile SCP10 Antofagasta FIR, Chile SCP52 Antofagasta FIR, Chile MUP1 Havana, Cuba MUP2 Bahia de Cochimos (I know a little Spanish and I think this is the infamous "Bay of Pigs" that U.S. backed Cuban rebels tried to invade.) (MU)P-1002 Guantanamo Bay Naval Airspace Reservation, Cuba MUP5 Santa Fe, Cuba MUP39 Juragua, Cuba SFP1 Falkland Islands MHP1 Toncontin, Honduras SUD8 Punta del Este, Uruguay (Curbuelo Naval Base) SVP2501 Carrizal, Venezuela SVP2502 Maracay, Venezuela SVP2521 La Orchila Island, Venezuela The DMA charts mentioned above (TPCG18R, TPCG19C, TPCG19D) are $4.75 apiece. The "Area Planning - North and South America - Special Use Airspace" is $5.50 for the main edition, or $10.75 per year for the main edition plus 2 supplements (by subscription.) These items can be ordered from: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration National Ocean Service Distribution Branch, N/CG33 Riverdale, MD 20737-1199 USA telephone: (301) 436-6990 Paul McGinnis / TRADER@cup.portal.com / PaulMcG@aol.com ********************************************************************** Anonymous FTP access to files dealing with excessive military secrecy is available from Internet host ftp.shell.portal.com (IP address 156.151.3.4) in the /pub/trader directory. Read the 00readme files for descriptions of the files. Writings from Glenn Campbell, author of the "Area 51 Viewer's Guide" are available in /pub/trader/secrecy/psychospy. ------------------------------ From: TRADER@cup.portal.com Date: Sat, 24 Dec 94 19:11:37 PST Subject: "Fantasy Island" ?!? A source considered to be reliable passed the following rumor to me: (I don't have any evidence to back it up, but it seems possible) The rumor is that U-2 flights are currently flying out of an island in the eastern Mediterranean (presumably Greek), to support UN operations in Bosnia. According to my source, the personnel involved refer to the island as "Fantasy Island". Anyone out there in cyberspace have any additional information on this? Paul McGinnis / TRADER@cup.portal.com / PaulMcG@aol.com ------------------------------ From: Kathryn & Andreas Gehrs-Pahl Date: Sun, 25 Dec 1994 17:07:00 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: "Fantasy Island" ?!? Trader wrote: >The rumor is that U-2 flights are currently flying out of an island in >the eastern Mediterranean (presumably Greek), to support UN operations >in Bosnia. According to my source, the personnel involved refer to the >island as "Fantasy Island". I don't know about the "Fantasy Island" nick name, but one of the few bigger, permanent Operating Locations (OL) or Detachments (Det) of the 9th SRW is located at RAF Akrotiri, on Cyprus (which is 'an island in the eastern Meditarranean'). BTW, here are the OLs and Dets I compiled, any additions and corrections are more than welcome. Det X (USAF (& CIA), Detachments): - ---------------------------------- Detachment, SAC deployment base for U-2 reconnaissance aircraft (later OL-n, then to Det n), where _X_ is a capital letter: Det A - RAF Lakenheath, England, WRSP-1, (Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, Provisional - 1), moved to: - Wiesbaden AB, Germany, moved to: - Giebelstadt AB, Germany Det B - Incirlik AFB, Turkey, WRSP-2, later also known as Det 10-10, or TUSLOG (Turkey-US Logistics Group) Det C - Atsugi AB, Japan, WRSP-3 Det _ - Groom (Dry) Lake Test Facility, WRSP-4, also known as: 'Watertown Strip', 'Aerea 51', 'The Area', 'The Ranch', 'Paradise Ranch', 'Dreamland', moved 6/1960 to: - Edwards AFB, North Base, California, USAF Flight Test Center, also known as 'Special Projects Branch', 1969 redesignated 1130th ATTG, and belonging to ARDC, together with the 6512th TG Det n (USAF, Detachments): - -------------------------- Detachment, SAC deployment base for U-2 and SR-71 reconnaissance aircraft (previously OL-n), where _n_ is a sequence number: Det 1 - Kadena AB, Okinawa, Japan, 9th SRW, SR-71, ex OL-8, OL-RK (or OLRK) Det 2 - Osan AB, Korea, 9th SRW, U-2 Det 3 - Ramey AFB, Puerto Rico, U-2, (HASP-deployment 1958, MIDAS-deployment and HiCAT-deployment), moved to: - RAF Akrotiri, Cyprus, 9th SRW, U-2 Det 4 - Plattsburgh AFB, New York, U-2, (HASP-deployment), moved to: - Ezeiza AB, Argentina, U-2, (HASP-deployment 9/11/58 to 8/1959 and 5/1960 to 6/1960), moved to: - RAF Mildenhall, UK, 99th SRS, 9th SRW, established 3/1979, U-2 and SR-71A, (the U-2s moved 1980 to RAF Alconbury, UK, becoming the 95th TRS, 17th RW), after 1980 only SR-71 Det 5 - Patrick AFB, Florida, 9th SRW, U-2, (MIDAS-deployment and HiCAT-deployment) Det 51 - Palmdale, California, Air Force Plant 42, Lockheed Plant 10, (ex Site II), 2762th Logistics Squadron, AFLC, also known as Det 6, U-2 and SR-71 Det 6 - Palmdale, California, Air Force Plant 42, Lockheed Plant 10, (ex Site II), 2762th Logistics Squadron, AFLC, also known as Det 51, U-2 and SR-71 Det 10-10 - Incirlik AFB, Turkey, also known as TUSLOG (Turkey-US Logistics Group), ex Det B (or WRSP-2), U-2 OL-n (USAF, Operating Locations): - --------------------------------- Operating Location, SAC deployment base for U-2 and SR-71 reconnaissance aircraft (later called Det n), where _n_ is a sequence number: OL-1 - ? OL-2 - ? OL-3 - ? OL-4 - ? OL-5 - Eielson AFB, Alaska, U-2, (HASP-deployment 1958 - 3/1960) OL-6 - ? OL-7 - ? OL-8 - Kadena AB, Okinawa, Japan, U-2, SR-71, also known as: OL-RK (or OLRK), later to Det 1 OL-9 - ? OL-10 - ? OL-11 - RAAF Laverton, East Sale, Australia, U-2, (HASP-deployment 11/1960 and 10/1961), moved to: - RAAF Avalon, Australia, U-2, (the very last HASP-deployment 2/1965), and back to: - RAAF Laverton, Australia, U-2, (HiCAT-deployment 7/1966) OL-12 - ? OL-13 - ? OL-14 - ? OL-15 - ? OL-16 - ? OL-17 - ? OL-18 - Howard AFB, Panama Canal Zone, U-2, (HASP-deployment), and - Albrook AFB, Panama Canal Zone, U-2, (HASP-deployment and HiCAT-deployment) OL-19 - Barksdale AFB, Louisiana, U-2, (including HiCAT deployment), moved 1969 to: - McCoy AFB, Florida, U-2 OL-20 - Bien Hoa AB, Vietnam, also known as: 'Lucky Dragon', 'Giant Dragon', and 'Trojan Horse', U-2, moved 7/1970 to: - U-Tapao RTAFB, Thailand, U-2 OL-RU - Beale AFB, California, U-2, SR-71, redesignated 4/1976: 99th SRS, 9th SRW, combining all operational U-2 and SR-71 OL-RK - Kadena AB, Okinawa, Japan, U-2, SR-71, also known as: OL-8, (OLRK), later to Det 1 Other Operating Locations may include the following bases and air fields around the world: OL-x - Laughlin AFB, Texas, 4080th SRW(L), redesignated 100th SRW, with 4025th SRS(L) 'Black Knights', redesignated 350th SRS, redesignated 4025th SRS, and 4028th SRS, redesignated 4028th SRWS, redesignated 349th SRS, redesignated 4028th SRS, and 4029th SRS, redesignated 4029th SRTS, redesignated 5th SRTS 'The Dragon Tamers' OL-x - Davis-Monthan AFB, Arizona, 100th SRW OL-x - Anderson AFB, Guam, U-2, (HASP-deployment) OL-x - Bodo AB, Norway, U-2 and SR-71 OL-x - Charbatia, India, U-2 OL-x - Diego Garcia AFB, Guam, U-2 and SR-71 (once) OL-x - Elmendorf AFB, Alaska, U-2, (HiCAT-deployment) OL-x - Fiji Islands, U-2, (HASP-deployment and HiCAT-deployment) OL-x - Griffiss AFB, New York, SR-71 OL-x - Hanscom AFB, Alaska, U-2, (HiCAT-deployment) OL-x - Hickam AFB, Hawai, U-2, (HASP-deployment and HiCAT-deployment) OL-x - Lahore, Pakistan, U-2 OL-x - Loring AFB, Maine, U-2, (HiCAT-deployment) OL-x - Minot AFB, North Dakota, U-2, (HASP-deployment 9/1959) OL-x - NAS Cubi Point, Philippines, U-2 OL-x - Peshawar, Pakistan, U-2 OL-x - RAE Bedford, UK, U-2, (HiCAT-deployment 3/1967) OL-x - RAF Watton, UK, U-2, (RAF testing ) OL-x - RAF Wethersfield, UK, U-2, (ALSS-deployment Summer 1975) OL-x - RNZAF Christchurch, New Zealand, U-2, (HiCAT-deployment 6/1966) OL-x - San Angelo, Texas, U-2, (HASP-deployment) OL-x - Seymour Johnson AFB, North Carolina, SR-71 OL-x - Sioux City, Iowa, U-2, (HASP-deployment) OL-x - Thakli, Thailand, U-2 OL-x - Warner-Robins AFB, Georgia, U-2 and SR-71, (SYPO - Senior Year Programs Office) OL-x - Zahedan airstrip, Iran, U-2 - Burbank Airport, California, Lockheed Corporation, U-2 and SR-71 - Van Nuys Airport, California, Lockheed Corporation, U-2 Merry Christmas - -- Andreas - --- --- Andreas & Kathryn Gehrs-Pahl Absolute Software 313 West Court St. #305 schnars@umcc.ais.org Flint, MI 48502-1239 Tel: (810) 238-8469 - --- --- ------------------------------ End of Skunk Works Digest V5 #175 ********************************* 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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