From: skunk-works-digest-owner@mail.orst.edu To: skunk-works-digest@mail.orst.edu Subject: Skunk Works Digest V5 #245 Reply-To: skunk-works-digest@mail.orst.edu Errors-To: skunk-works-digest-owner@mail.orst.edu Precedence: bulk Skunk Works Digest Wednesday, 19 April 1995 Volume 05 : Number 245 In this issue: Neat Pilot Report in this weeks AW&ST Re: Neat Pilot Report in this weeks AW&ST Re: Neat Pilot Report in this weeks AW&ST (what's AW&ST?) Re: Neat Pilot Report in this weeks AW&ST Re: Neat Pilot Report in this weeks AW&ST Re: Neat Pilot Report in this weeks AW&ST Re: Neat Pilot Report in this weeks AW&ST Re: Neat Pilot Report in this weeks AW&ST Re: Neat Pilot Report in this weeks AW&ST 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: Tue, 18 Apr 1995 01:21:25 -0700 Subject: Neat Pilot Report in this weeks AW&ST This week's AW&ST has a pilot report on the B-2!! This is a cool airplane! There are 3 other articles on the B-2 as well. Larry ------------------------------ From: wizard@sccsi.com (STRATACOM WORLDNET ) Date: Tue, 18 Apr 1995 07:11:34 -0500 Subject: Re: Neat Pilot Report in this weeks AW&ST > >This week's AW&ST has a pilot report on the B-2!! > >This is a cool airplane! There are 3 other articles >on the B-2 as well. > >Larry > > When is it expected to be put into passenger service, Larry? ROTFLOL ******************************************************************* * STRATACOM WORLDNET *internet: wizard@sccsi.com | SYS/370/390 *internet: world@ibm.net (int'l)| Systems Software Engineering *voice: 011-1-713-960-0045 | Data and Tele-Communications *fax/data: 011-1-713-960-0015 | *WUI: REGUSHOU | John F. Regus, Consultant ******************************************************************* ------------------------------ From: larry@ichips.intel.com Date: Tue, 18 Apr 1995 10:21:19 -0700 Subject: Re: Neat Pilot Report in this weeks AW&ST (what's AW&ST?) >I've seen "AW&ST" many times in this list and am wondering what it stands >for ... Aviation Wontenness And Space Trucking ... > ... and how would someone go about getting copies or a subscription. Just kidding :) AW&ST = Aviation Week and Space Technology Subscriber service phone = 800-525-5003 Current rates: 1 yr - 51 issues for $82 2 yr - 102 issues for $139 3 yr - 153 issues for $169 It's expensive but it's been in business for over 75 years and it is an internationally recognized information source for all aspects of the aerospace industry. It also serves as a forum for current aerospace issues, and as a political tool for everybody interested in aerospace issues, from government defense specialists, to public representatives, to aerospace industry personalities and authorities, and yes, even to enthusiasts like us. Larry ------------------------------ From: larry@ichips.intel.com Date: Tue, 18 Apr 1995 10:30:35 -0700 Subject: Re: Neat Pilot Report in this weeks AW&ST >When is it expected to be put into passenger service, Larry? This was planned, as you mentioned. After all, Jack Northrop was planning to use a YB-49 derived aircraft for that purpose (many of us have seen the video that Northrop developed showing this concept) but as it currently sits, the ATC union has complained that the airplane is impossible to track on ATC radars. They've threatened to strike if plans to put the aircraft into commercial service are carried forward. Larry ------------------------------ From: larry@ichips.intel.com Date: Tue, 18 Apr 1995 10:40:14 -0700 Subject: Re: Neat Pilot Report in this weeks AW&ST >Gee, I was kinda hoping it was going to be for General Aviation. :} > >Maybe somebody will enter one at the races in Reno? I'll settle for a flyby at this summer's Portland Rose Festival Airshow! Maybe I should call Brig. General Ronald C. Marcotte, commander of the 509th Bomb Wing, and ask who to talk to about this! Larry ------------------------------ From: Jeremy Nygren Date: Tue, 18 Apr 1995 12:08:42 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: Neat Pilot Report in this weeks AW&ST On Tue, 18 Apr 1995 larry@ichips.intel.com wrote: > I'll settle for a flyby at this summer's Portland Rose Festival > Airshow! Maybe I should call Brig. General Ronald C. Marcotte, > commander of the 509th Bomb Wing, and ask who to talk to about > this! I second this! I live in the Portland Metro area and would LOVE to see the B-2 make an appearance! Anyone else? ------------------------------ From: Mary Shafer Date: Tue, 18 Apr 1995 16:51:22 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: Neat Pilot Report in this weeks AW&ST Oh, we always have it at our airshow here at Edwards, but we see it so often it just isn't very special to us. Two of the last three SR-71 flights that I've gone down to the center taxiway to watch, we've had to wait while the B-2 took off first. And the last time that I was over in the east bombing range, the B-2 was making a live drop in the west range. (Usually it's just the C-17 throwing dummys out or something.) Kidding aside, it's really neat and I hope you can manage it. Regards, Mary Mary Shafer DoD #0362 KotFR shafer@ursa-major.spdcc.com URL http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/People/Shafer/mary.html 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, 18 Apr 1995, Jeremy Nygren wrote: > > > On Tue, 18 Apr 1995 larry@ichips.intel.com wrote: > > > > I'll settle for a flyby at this summer's Portland Rose Festival > > Airshow! Maybe I should call Brig. General Ronald C. Marcotte, > > commander of the 509th Bomb Wing, and ask who to talk to about > > this! > > I second this! I live in the Portland Metro area and would LOVE to see > the B-2 make an appearance! Anyone else? > > ------------------------------ From: larry@ichips.intel.com Date: Tue, 18 Apr 1995 14:23:00 -0700 Subject: Re: Neat Pilot Report in this weeks AW&ST >Re: Using a YB-49 derived aircraft for commercial purposes. >Was the YB-49 the old flying wing? Yes, one of many that Jack built. The video is quite neat. It shows a stylishly dressed woman going to the front of the aircraft (or is it the back?) to take a look out the large window. This is not the most unusual ride for a civilian however. The plans to get Jack Kennedy to ride is a suitably appointed B-58A Hustler weapons pod, to a summit with the Soviets, has to rank right up there. This was during the SST gap years. Pres. Kennedy nixed this plan real quick! Larry ------------------------------ From: jally@interlog.com (J. Ally) Date: Tue, 18 Apr 1995 18:26:39 -0400 Subject: Re: Neat Pilot Report in this weeks AW&ST >I second this! I live in the Portland Metro area and would LOVE to see >the B-2 make an appearance! Anyone else? Oh man, what a dream. I live in Toronto, and would be there every day of the airshow if a B-2 was gonna fly by. Jamie ------------------------------ End of Skunk Works Digest V5 #245 ********************************* 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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