From: skunk-works-digest-owner@mail.orst.edu To: skunk-works-digest@mail.orst.edu Subject: Skunk Works Digest V5 #452 Reply-To: skunk-works-digest@mail.orst.edu Errors-To: skunk-works-digest-owner@mail.orst.edu Precedence: bulk Skunk Works Digest Tuesday, 10 October 1995 Volume 05 : Number 452 In this issue: Re: SanFrancisco Fleetweek X-31 Santa Barbara airshow - U2 Aurora 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: Wei-Jen Su Date: Mon, 9 Oct 1995 12:16:05 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: SanFrancisco Fleetweek On Sat, 7 Oct 1995 Pionusman@aol.com wrote: > Today(Saturday) was part of the Navy's Fleet Week in San Francisco, CA. > There were of course the Blue Angels, carier launches of 2 F/A-18s and 2 > F-14s, and the landing of a LOCKHEED S-3 Viking. One surprise was the flight > of a LOCKHEED F-117a. It made two close passes and was a beautiful sight. > > Now wait. The F-117a belongs to the Air Force right? What would it be doing > at a Navy show?I would only expect it to fly at an Air Force show, > UNLESS..... > I was in a lot of Airshow during this summer in the North-East cost... And in all the Airshow, I saw the typic routine of the F-117 made two close passes... Even in a WWII airshows... Does this mean that the F-117 flow during WWII hahaha Just kidding... My point is that is not necessary a USAF aircraft is not allow to fly in a Navy airshow... May the Force be with you Su Wei-Jen wsu02@barney.poly.edu ------------------------------ From: dougt@u011.oh.vp.com (Doug Tiffany) Date: Mon, 9 Oct 95 13:42:57 EDT Subject: X-31 Once more from the files of Popular Mechanics. Tech Update Of The Day: October 9, 1995 Each weekday you'll see a new Technology Update in this space. Click here to see a full-text searchable archive. X-Plane's Excellent Farewell EDWARDS, CA -- It's hard to upstage Russia's daring MiG-29 and Su-27 routines at the Paris Air Show, but that's just what the X-31 did. The first X-plane ever to perform at an international air show, the U.S.-German jet hushed the crowds with a daily display of post-stall bravura. Sadly, the performance may be the curtain call for this extraordinary aircraft. After a showstopping Paris performance, X-31 is loaded into Air Force Reserve C-5 for transport back to California. The maneuvers included several rapid rolls and directional shifts while the airplane bellied through the air at a 70 degree angle of attack. One 90 degree heading change was termed the Mongoose, a playful counterpoint to the Su-27's signature Cobra maneuver. In another breathtaker, called a Herbst turn, the X-31 pulled a 150 degree heading change during a sharp left bank. All were managed with the aid of thrust-vectoring paddles. These engine-nozzle devices allow carefree flight at angles that send other planes tumbling into aerodynamic stall. The hardest-working X-plane ever built is now history -- at least until the end of this year. After the air show, the ground crew removed its wings and palletized the aircraft. Now in storage at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, the X-31 awaits a decision on its ultimate fate. - -- A hundred years from now, it will not matter what kind of house I live in, how much is in my bank account, or what kind of car I drive, but the world may be a different place because I was important in the life of a child. Douglas J. Tiffany dougt@u011.oh.vp.com Varco-Pruden Buildings Van Wert, Ohio ------------------------------ From: Tom Ambrose Date: Mon, 09 Oct 1995 11:30:43 PDT Subject: Santa Barbara airshow - U2 I was in Santa Barbara this past weekend to visit some friends. On Saturday I awoke to the sound of Pitts Specials doing a routine. I did not know there was an airshow until I heard a jet taking off and one of my friends said, "hey, check out the big black glider." I turned to see a U2 doing a few passes over the airport. It was the first time I've ever seen a U2 flying in person. - -tom -------------------------------------------------------------- | Thomas P. Ambrose Gordian, Inc., Santa Ana Heights, CA | | tom@gordian.com phone: 714-850-0205 fax: 714-850-0533 | \____________________________________________________________/ | | | "The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes | \ a bit longer." -- Henry Kissinger / \------------------------------------------------------------/ ------------------------------ From: "Terry Colvin" Date: Mon, 09 Oct 95 14:16:07 EST Subject: Aurora Date: 4 Oct 1995 23:45:22 -0400 From: Kelly St Subject: Hello Aurora, Goodby Blackbird >A double sonic boom... Strange. I heard (no pun intended) that the Aurora left a single sonic boom. An Aero. Professor mentioned this as one of the reasons to assume at least one of the Aurora series (differnt types of hypersonic craft have been spoted) has a waverider shape. This would agree with reports of an off centered diamond shaped craft (the short axis is about 2/3rds back along the long axis), covered with shuttle like tiles and using an externally buring pulse dethonation engine. Aviation Week ran some articals on it with photos of the weird contrails, which analysts are sure confirm the Pulse deth. engine. Also 'something' blows over the LAX airspace, at Hyersonic speeds, often enought to seriously peve the air trafic controlers. Air Force denys any such plane exists; but confirmed that if it did exist, they are com,pletly breifed as to its abilities. (?) 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