From: skunk-works-digest-owner@mail.orst.edu To: skunk-works-digest@mail.orst.edu Subject: Skunk Works Digest V5 #385 Reply-To: skunk-works-digest@mail.orst.edu Errors-To: skunk-works-digest-owner@mail.orst.edu Precedence: bulk Skunk Works Digest Tuesday, 15 August 1995 Volume 05 : Number 385 In this issue: Lockheed employees Shop Lockheeds Employee Store... U-2 News Re: Skunk Works Digest V5 #384 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: "Gordon C. Smith, IBM Greenford, UK." Date: Mon, 14 Aug 95 08:39:17 BST Subject: Lockheed employees Shop I'll be doing the NASA Dryden tour at the beginning of October and would like to look in at the Lockheed employees shop at Palmdale on the same day. Can anyone tell me if Joe-public can use the shop and, if so, give me directions. I know where the "Air-park" is, so directions from there would be great. Regards, Gordon ------------------------------ From: Kathryn & Andreas Gehrs-Pahl Date: Mon, 14 Aug 1995 10:42:13 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Lockheeds Employee Store... Because of the high public demand, here are directions to the Lockheed Employees Store, the Blackbird Airpark and the Wing And A Prayer pub. The Skunk Works Employees Shop is located near the Lockheed ADC in Palmdale. If you are on Highway 14, use the exit to the Palmdale Municipal Airport, Avenue P. You will cross Sierra Hwy and some train tracks, from where you can see the very prominent LADC building complex on your left. Take Lockheed Way left on the next traffic light. Just before the gate to the LADC facility, you find a building on your right, which says "Lockheed Credit Union", but the Employees Shop is in there too (to the right). If you just walk into it, they don't ask for an ID, and you can get all sorts of merchandise with Skunk Works and Lockheed logos on them -- from skunky t-shirts to Lockheed license plate frames. There are many magazines, books, models and interesting and cheap Lockheed videos available too. It is operated by the Lockheed Employees Recreation Center, and as far as I know, open to the public, hardly ever known to shoot non-employee shoppers. :) The Blackbird Airpark, operated by volunteers from the Air Force Flight Test Center Museum at Edwards AFB, is just two traffic lights further on Avenue P, also on the left (25th Street East). It now has the following exhibits: - A-12, article 121, serial "60-6924", on loan to the AFFTCM; - SR-71A, article 2024, serial "64-17973", on loan to Det. 1, ASC, Plant 42; - D-21, article 525, on loan from NASA DFRC -- soon to be replaced by article 537, directly from AMARC; - a J58-P2 (JT11D-20) engine; - a Buick V-8 start car; - a Blackbird wind tunnel model with A-12, YF-12 and SR-71 nose sections; The "Wing And A Prayer" is located at the corner of 90th Street East and Avenue J, which is 6 miles North from Avenue P. Be sure you go East, and not West, because the streets are numbered the same in both directions (as we discovered). :) The addresses and telephone numbers are: LERC Employees Store 1011 Lockheed Way Unit 12 Palmdale, CA 93599 (805) 572-2201 Blackbird Airpark 25th Street East Palmdale, CA 93599 Doug Nelson, Edwards AFB Flight Test Museum, (805) 277-8050 Wing And A Prayer 44423 90th Street East Lancaster, CA 93535 (805) 946-2656 - -- 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/ - --- --- ------------------------------ From: "Terry Colvin" Date: Mon, 14 Aug 95 08:47:05 EST Subject: U-2 News A newspaper article- Paper: Boston Globe Autor: Chris Black (how appropriate[8>)]) Title: With Bosnian photos, U-2 still producing Date+: August 11, 1995; page 12 "Washington -- Exactly 40 years after its first flight, the Air Force U-2 high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft is still making news. "A U-2 took the surveillance photographs released yesterday at the United Nations of what was reported to be a mass grave of Muslim men and boys suspected of being executed by Bosnian Serbs after the takeover of Srebrenica in Bosnia-Herzegovina last month. "Although an entire generation now thinks of U2 as a rock band, the Air Force jet has been a reliable tool in the military spy inventory since its first flight in August 1955. "The U-2 took the photographs of the Soviet military installing offensive missiles in Cuba in October 1962. The photographs precipitated the Cuban missile crisis, which tested the young administration of President JFK. "A new version of the single-seat, single-engine aircraft, known as the U-2R, was introduced in August 1981. It is equipped with highly sophisticated sensors that enable it to conduct around-the-clock surveillance of a battle area to support U.S. ground troops and air forces. "In addition to spy missions, the U-2 has been used by the Agriculture Department, Army Corps of Engineers and state governments to assess damage from hurricanes and other natural disasters. They are also used to collect air samples to check for radioactive debris in the stratosphere and occasionally for search-and-rescue missions. "The $34 million aircraft is manufactured by Lockheed Aircraft Corp. The number of aircraft in the fleet is classified information at the Pentagon." 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: jonhp@ix.netcom.com (Jon Price (PJ)) Date: Mon, 14 Aug 1995 10:04:38 -0700 Subject: Re: Skunk Works Digest V5 #384 >Skunk Works Digest Monday, 14 August 1995 Volume 05 : Number 384 >Subject: Lockheed shop > > I'll be doing the NASA Dryden tour at the beginning of October and would >like to look in at the Lockheed workers shop at Palmdale on the same day. >Can anyone tell me if Joe-public can use the shop and, if so, give me >directions. I know where the "Air-park" is, so directions from there would >be great. > Regards, Gordon Gordon, The Lockheed Facility is about a mile West on the Airpark on Ave P. and Lockheed Way. I do not believe that the plant itself is open for tours, but the Lockheed Employees Recreation Club (LERC) store is open to the public. They offer a wide selection of stuff for sale and prices are very reasonable. Bring Lots of $$. The store is open Monday-Friday, 10am-??. Also, the Airpark has a very nice gift shop. The Airpark is open Friday-Sunday, 10am-5pm. The Airpark is operated by the Flight Test Historical Foundation Museum located at Edwards AFB, just a couple of miles from the NASA Dryden facility. It is a small museum now, but it is packed with lots of interesting exhibits. Be sure to see it. I believe thet they are open everyday except Monday. They have a gift shop also. Bring more $$! Enjoy your trip. Jon - -- Jon Price (PJ) **From the slopes of the Eastern High Sierras** **Bishop, California** ------------------------------ End of Skunk Works Digest V5 #385 ********************************* 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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