From: skunk-works-digest-owner@mail.orst.edu To: skunk-works-digest@mail.orst.edu Subject: Skunk Works Digest V5 #382 Reply-To: skunk-works-digest@mail.orst.edu Errors-To: skunk-works-digest-owner@mail.orst.edu Precedence: bulk Skunk Works Digest Saturday, 12 August 1995 Volume 05 : Number 382 In this issue: Hunter UAV Fighter Crashes in UK French Nuclear Tests - Environmental Effects 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: "Terry Colvin" Date: Fri, 11 Aug 95 09:06:31 EST Subject: Hunter UAV :HUNTER UAV DERIVATIVE IN FIRST FLIGHT A prototype E-Hunter unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), a derivative of the Hunter Joint Tactical UAV (JT-UAV) made its first flight recently in Israel, contractor team members Israel Aircraft Industries and TRW said. E-Hunter, which took its initial journey at a UAV testing site July 25, was developed as a low-cost, low-risk way to add long endurance capability to the Hunter JT-UAV. E-Hunter will be able to loiter on station for more than 25 hours at altitudes of 20,000 feet, the team said. Following a short flight test period in Israel, E-Hunter will be shipped to the U.S. and used by the TRW/IAI team for further development and payload integration. The design of E-Hunter combines the existing Hunter fuselage, twin engines and avionics with a long-endurance wing, tail and booms that have been developed for IAI's Heron UAV. E-Hunter's design enable reconfiguration of a Hunter UAV to an E-Hunter and vice-versa easily at the field maintenance level without any modifications, the contractor team said. E-Hunter is fully interoperable with the JT-UAV Hunter system. E-Hunter's maximum takeoff wight is 2,100 pounds, reports yesterday's edition of Tactical Technology, including up to 670 pounds of combined fuel and mission payload. ------------------------------ From: matthew@empyr.dircon.co.uk (Matthew Williams) Date: 11 Aug 95 14:23:42 GMT Subject: Fighter Crashes in UK Date: 01-22-78; 20:06 To: skunk-works-digest @gaia.ucs.orst.edu (Internet) From: Matthew Williams @44792000 (VirtualNet) Organization: Empyrion BBS Subject: Fighter Crashes in UK There have been quite a few Jet aircraft crashes in the UK recently. A couple of bail outs and a couple of fatalities. I wonder if they were testing new equipment for use in Bosnia. /\/\ - ----------------------------------------------------------------- KILL STRAKER! ___/\___ " Salutations /________\ Great Buckaroo Matthew@empyr.dircon.co.uk _/ \_ Banzai! " * Q-Blue 2.0 [NR] * VQWK 6.20 [Rev H - 04/04/94] ------------------------------ From: "Terry Colvin" Date: Fri, 11 Aug 95 15:38:54 EST Subject: French Nuclear Tests - Environmental Effects Anyone wishing to receive this scientific evaluation (~38,741 bytes) may email me privately. A partial quote of the heading is below. Terry Terry W. Colvin or Fort Huachuca (Cochise County), Arizona USA "No editor ever likes the way a story tastes unless he pees in it first." -Mark Twain From: "Inst. for Energy and Envir. Research" From ieer Wed Aug 9 12:27:34 1995 Received: from igc2.igc.apc.org (igc2.igc.apc.org [192.82.108.39]) by igc3.igc.apc.org (8.6.12/Revision: 1.6 ) with SMTP id MAA03991 for ; Wed, 9 Aug 1995 12:27:33 -0700 Received: (from ieer) by igc2.igc.apc.org (8.6.11/Revision: 1.14 ) id MAA05217 for ieer@igc.apc.org; Wed, 9 Aug 1995 12:27:28 -0700 Date: Wed, 9 Aug 1995 12:27:28 -0700 From: "Inst. for Energy and Envir. Research" Message-Id: <199508091927.MAA05217@igc2.igc.apc.org> To: ieer@igc.apc.org Subject: test3 Status: RO Due to impending French nuclear tests in the South Pacific and the renewed interest in the issue, The International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War and The Institute for Energy and Environmental Research are distributing the following document on the health and environmental effects of French nuclear testing. This is an updated version of Chapter Nine from the book "Radioactive Heaven and Earth," one of the few sources of information on this subject. We encourage wide circulation of this information. The text may be forwarded by email but may not be republished without written authorization. Any reference to the text must use the following citation: International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War and The Institute for Energy and Environmental Research. "Radioactive Heaven and Earth: the health and environmental effects of nuclear weapons testing in, on and above the earth." (New York: Apex Press, 1991.) For further information or authorization: IPPNW:(617)868-5050 or ippnwbos@igc.apc.org IEER: (301) 270-5500 or ieer@igc.apc.org Chapter 9 French Testing Locations, Numbers and Types of Tests The first French nuclear tests were conducted in Algeria between 1960 and 1965. The first test took place on February 13, 1960 at Reggan when Algeria was still a colony in the throes of a war for independence. ------------------------------ End of Skunk Works Digest V5 #382 ********************************* 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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