From: skunk-works-digest-owner@mail.orst.edu To: skunk-works-digest@mail.orst.edu Subject: Skunk Works Digest V5 #291 Reply-To: skunk-works-digest@mail.orst.edu Errors-To: skunk-works-digest-owner@mail.orst.edu Precedence: bulk Skunk Works Digest Tuesday, 6 June 1995 Volume 05 : Number 291 In this issue: Re: Dark Star Re: Dark Star Re: Skunk Works Digest V5 #290 FW: VIRUS ALERT Re: Rome ADC location 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: HACKETT@vilas.uwex.edu Date: Mon, 5 Jun 1995 08:35:11 CDT Subject: Re: Dark Star ------------------------------ From: Mary Shafer Date: Mon, 5 Jun 1995 11:05:44 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: Dark Star They had a picture on the front page of the Valley section of the L A Times and an article on page 7. It's just the Tier 3- recce drone. Body by Lockheed, wings by Boeing, engine by someone--due to start flight test at Dryden in August. You must just have an inferior paper. 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 Fri, 2 Jun 1995, Byron Weber wrote: > Did I hear right? > > About 6pm, June 1, 1995, a CBS affiliate radio station in Los > Angeles announced the disclosure of a Lockheed-Martin, Skunkworks, > unmanned stealth recon vehicle named the Dark Star. Max. 8 hours > flight time, alt. 45,000 ft. (max.alt.still classified), subsonic > speed 250 mph with on board computer. Just caught the end of the > release, something about tail less. Searched several newspapers > today, not one word. Us Skunk enthusiasts must be in the minority. > ------------------------------ From: jmee@ns.net (John Mee) Date: Mon, 5 Jun 1995 17:26:28 -0700 Subject: Re: Skunk Works Digest V5 #290 > - Rome Air Development Center, Laredo, TX This is kind of interesting, since Rome ADC is in Rome, New York. Do you know anything more about what went on at this site? ------------------------------ From: "Terry Colvin" Date: Mon, 05 Jun 95 17:23:33 EST Subject: FW: VIRUS ALERT THIS MESSAGE SENT BCC TO ALL JITC WEST Subject: VIRUS ALERT Date: Monday, June 05, 1995 11:02AM We have word form PKWARE that someone on the internet is distributing files under the pretext of being an upgrade to the PKZIP/PKUNZIP file compression program. The bogus file names are: PKZ300B.EXE and PKZ300B.ZIP This is NOT a version of PKZIP and it will try to erase your hard drive if you use it. If you encounter them please IGNORE THEM. The most recent version of PKZIP is 2.04g. Help Desk ------------------------------ From: Kathryn & Andreas Gehrs-Pahl Date: Mon, 5 Jun 1995 23:11:20 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: Rome ADC location John Mee wondered about the line: "- Rome Air Development Center, Laredo, TX" in my "Operation ARGUS" article, since Rome ADC is located in Rome, New York. The Rome ADC was a supporting agency for the surface measurement portion of 'Operation ARGUS', which was code named 'Project MIDAS'. The Rome ADC had an instrumentation station at Laredo, TX, which is listed under the supporting agencies. I don't know how big this instrumentation station was, or what exactly it was used for, but the listed stations were generally used for: * measuring changes in the Earth's electromagnetic field, * monitoring possible effects of the electrons -- emitted by the ARGUS high-altitude shots -- on radio wave distribution, * and detecting other possible phenomena in the atmosphere and ionosphere, caused by the explosions. The list under "Support for Project 7.3" is a list of instrumentation stations, and their operators/owners, and doesn't necessarily give the location of the main facility of those agencies. I realize, I failed to make that clearer in my article. Any other information, comments, and questions are welcome. Especially if anyone knows anything more about the aircraft-launched satellite project, I would like to hear about it. - -- Andreas - --- --- Andreas & Kathryn Gehrs-Pahl E-Mail: schnars@ais.org 313 West Court St. #305 or: gpahl@raptor.csc.flint.umich.edu Flint, MI 48502-1239 Tel: (810) 238-8469 WWW URL: http://www.umcc.umich.edu/~schnars/ - --- --- ------------------------------ End of Skunk Works Digest V5 #291 ********************************* 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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