From: skunk-works-digest-owner@mail.orst.edu To: skunk-works-digest@mail.orst.edu Subject: Skunk Works Digest V5 #487 Reply-To: skunk-works-digest@mail.orst.edu Errors-To: skunk-works-digest-owner@mail.orst.edu Precedence: bulk Skunk Works Digest Saturday, 28 October 1995 Volume 05 : Number 487 In this issue: SR-71 at Nellis Re: Blackbird goes travelling 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: Kathryn & Andreas Gehrs-Pahl Date: Fri, 27 Oct 1995 05:55:42 -0400 (EDT) Subject: SR-71 at Nellis SR-71A, article '2018', USAF serial '64-17967', tail number '17967', one of the reactivated, USAF-operated aircraft, landed on Wednesday, October 25, 1995, at Nellis AFB, after the NASA crew experienced an in-flight fuel transfer problem over Nevada, while on the way back to Palmdale, CA. They elected to land at Nellis AFB, Las Vegas, NV, because they didn't want to risk running out of fuel. The aircraft created two loud sonic booms over Las Vegas, when she came in at about 05:15 p.m. PST. She was apparently scheduled to return to Palmdale on Thursday, October 26, 1995, at 04:30 p.m. PST, but seemed to have experienced more problems, and is still there. The aircraft is apparently visible from outside of the air base, and will probably try to return to Palmdale, later today (Friday, October 27, 1995). Nellis AFB is right now quite busy, because the exercise Gunsmoke '95 is currently held there, lasting from October 26 to October 29. [Info compiled from r.a.m and Tim Gerlach, Las Vegas] - -- 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: Mary Shafer Date: Fri, 27 Oct 1995 14:16:41 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: Blackbird goes travelling Fuel transfer problems, it turns out. Had enough fuel onboard, but couldn't pump it to a tank the engines could draw from. In defense of Dryden's maintainence folks, this is one of the reactivated birds, maintained down in Palmdale by Lockheed. 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 Thu, 26 Oct 1995, Dean Adams wrote: > > Mary sez: > > Right now (Thursday morning) there's a Blackbird at Nellis AFB. They hope > > to recover it fairly soon, though, so don't dawdle. > > Sounds interesting! How about the "rest of the story"? :) > > ------------------------------ End of Skunk Works Digest V5 #487 ********************************* To subscribe to skunk-works-digest, send the command: subscribe skunk-works-digest in the body of a message to "majordomo@mail.orst.edu". If you want to subscribe something other than the account the mail is coming from, such as a local redistribution list, then append that address to the "subscribe" command; for example, to subscribe "local-skunk-works": subscribe skunk-works-digest local-skunk-works@your.domain.net To unsubscribe, send mail to the same address, with the command: unsubscribe skunk-works-digest in the body. Administrative requests, problems, and other non-list mail can be sent to either "skunk-works-digest-owner@mail.orst.edu" or, if you don't like to type a lot, "prm@mail.orst.edu A non-digest (direct mail) version of this list is also available; to subscribe to that instead, replace all instances of "skunk-works-digest" in the commands above with "skunk-works". Back issues are available for anonymous FTP from mail.orst.edu, in /pub/skunk-works/digest/vNN.nMMM (where "NN" is the volume number, and "MMM" is the issue number).