From: skunk-works-digest-owner@mail.orst.edu To: skunk-works-digest@mail.orst.edu Subject: Skunk Works Digest V5 #260 Reply-To: skunk-works-digest@mail.orst.edu Errors-To: skunk-works-digest-owner@mail.orst.edu Precedence: bulk Skunk Works Digest Friday, 5 May 1995 Volume 05 : Number 260 In this issue: Re: Black Helicopters/Russian Pilots-Bravo Sierra Re: Black Helicopters/Russian Pilots-Bravo Sierra??? Re: Here's a story of a different color. Five H-60 helicopters stopped briefly in Amarillo 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: noordelo@studentn.msu.edu (David Mark Noordeloos) Date: Thu, 4 May 1995 10:57:22 -0500 Subject: Re: Black Helicopters/Russian Pilots-Bravo Sierra I'm fairly new to the digest, but not to the web. As an aviation buff I truly enjoy reading the digest. One thing I've noticed on the web is how the New World Order Buffs seem to think every one on the web is interested in their info. Yes, black unmarked helos w/ russian crews would be interesting (if true), but this should be posted to alt.conspiracy or a similar usenet group. This article had nothing to do with skunkworks and should not have been on the digest. Best Personal Regards, ------------------------------ From: kuryakin@halcyon.com (Illya Kuryakin) Date: Thu, 4 May 1995 11:41:08 -0500 Subject: Re: Black Helicopters/Russian Pilots-Bravo Sierra??? David Noordeloos wrote: }I'm fairly new to the digest, but not to the web. As an aviation buff I }truly enjoy reading the digest. One thing I've noticed on the web is how }the New World Order Buffs seem to think every one on the web is interested }in their info. Yes, black unmarked helos w/ russian crews would be }interesting (if true), but this should be posted to alt.conspiracy or a }similar usenet group. This article had nothing to do with skunkworks and }should not have been on the digest. } } Best Personal Regards, Not a New World Order buff.. no way, no how. And just because it's a report about black helicopters doesnt' mean that it's automatically about a conspiracy. I was relating a sighting of an unusual nature, not folklore. Due to the relaxed nature of the charter of this group (this has been bandied about many times before, as a long-time reader of the skunk list, I've participated) classified programs of any type are generally considered appropriate to the topic. While these aren't 'advanced projects' they're quite possibly classified. By my rekoning they just squeeze into the catagory. Additionally, I was just as much fishing for any additional information on this report and know that the target audience has a very good possibily of containing one or more individuals who might well have the answer. If it turns out they're doing nothing unusual (which I doubt, like they're cropdusting, for example) then I suspect that this thread will die a natural death. If anyone's not interested then they can always ignore the emails containing the subject line, eh? Illya Illya Kuryakin "HA!!" U.N.C.L.E. Network Services Ruby kuryakin@halcyon.com Galactic Gumshoe They told me to put a disclaimer here. And _I_ run the place. :} ------------------------------ From: megazone@world.std.com (MegaZone) Date: Thu, 4 May 1995 14:42:51 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: Here's a story of a different color. Once upon a time Illya Kuryakin shaped the electrons to say... >The crews were in the FBO's restaurant in standard gray flight coveralls... >with no markings of any kind. The crews spoke only in fluent Russian. >They also looked Russian. They could also be Spec Ops US troops who were training. It isn't uncommong for infiltration troops to play the part of the 'enemy' including speaking only the foreign language, so that they are proficient at it. - -- megazone@world.std.com (508) 752-2164 MegaZone's Waste Of Time Moderator: anime fanfic archive, ftp.std.com /archives/anime-fan-works; rec.arts.anime.stories - Maintainer: Ani Difranco Mailing List - Mail to majordomo@world.std.com with 'subscribe ani-difranco' in the body. ------------------------------ From: The Space Wastrel Date: Thu, 4 May 1995 19:32:17 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Five H-60 helicopters stopped briefly in Amarillo Clearly the five helicopters in Amarillo were part of the advance guard of the invading UN army that the Michigan Militia has been warning us about for so long... More seriously, every time I've seen black helicopters without markings flying around there has been a USN Amphibious Battle Group or Carrier Battle Group in the immediate vicinity (I'm from a port city in Australia and you'd be surprised at how often both the USN and black helicopters tunr up). It's been suggested to me that black helicopters are a particular favourite of Special Forces types but I'm not sure how much credence I pay to that. As for speaking only in fluent Russian... what a good thing they had a multilingual waitress at FBO's (Australian for, I wouldn't believe that without testimony from a direct witness [preferably a Russian linguist]). > From: kuryakin@halcyon.com (Illya Kuryakin) > > Two months ago, five H-60 helicopters stopped briefly in Amarillo, TX for lunch. > > What was odd about these was not merely the type... but that they were all > painted a uniform flat black. No markings of any kind, national or > servicing. > > The crews were in the FBO's restaurant in standard gray flight coveralls... > with no markings of any kind. The crews spoke only in fluent Russian. > They also looked Russian. > > Comments anyone? Why would Russian crews be flying unmarked US Helicopters? > > Illya #######################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 #260 ********************************* 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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