From: skunk-works-digest-owner@mail.orst.edu To: skunk-works-digest@mail.orst.edu Subject: Skunk Works Digest V5 #502 Reply-To: skunk-works-digest@mail.orst.edu Errors-To: skunk-works-digest-owner@mail.orst.edu Precedence: bulk Skunk Works Digest Wednesday, 8 November 1995 Volume 05 : Number 502 In this issue: Sea Shadow plastic model Re: DarkStar Photo and Caption Wonder Woman Airplane :) SR-71 paint On 6 November Greg Fieser said 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: "Alan S. Estenson" Date: Tue, 7 Nov 1995 23:59:21 -0600 (CST) Subject: Sea Shadow plastic model This may have been announced here previously... I was recently looking through the 1996 Revell catalog and noticed that new for '96 was a 1:144 model of the Lockheed(-Martin) Sea Shadow. The Revell number is 5107. Unfortunately, there was no mention of when it will be released, or what its price will be. The picture in the catalog was an artist's conception and not a photograph of the actual model. - -- Alan S. Estenson estenson@aem.umn.edu University of Minnesota - Aerospace Engineering ------------------------------ From: sschaper@pobox.com (Steve Schaper) Date: Wed, 8 Nov 1995 00:07:31 -0600 Subject: Re: DarkStar Photo and Caption I thought that the Dark Star was a Minbari cruiser. ------------------------------ From: Wei-Jen Su Date: Wed, 8 Nov 1995 01:56:58 -0500 (EST) Subject: Wonder Woman Airplane :) Even if we have the technology to make the whole airplane with a glass color material (transparent material), we can not make a pilot transparent, at what I know until now... So, if I am the pilot of such a transparent aircraft, I will have a funny feeling that I am "naked"... Imagine that!!! you flying in the middle of a battle and all the AAA trying to shoot your butt!!!! :) By the way, I heard that the aluminum transparent technology is real (you know like in the movie Star Trek IV), does anybody know about it??? Or are only rumors??? May the Force be with you Su Wei-Jen E-mail: wsu02@barney.poly.edu ------------------------------ From: Wei-Jen Su Date: Wed, 8 Nov 1995 02:03:37 -0500 (EST) Subject: SR-71 paint I heard from a interview with Ben Rich that there was a time when a General asked the Skunk Works eng. to paint the identification letters on the SR-71, eg: country (USAF), USAF logo, etc. Ben Rich told him that there is no way you can do it because the speed of the aircraft will ripe all the paint off... But the General insisted, so they have to come out with a 1 million dollars in development for the special paint!!!! Any comments will be appreciate... May the Force be with you Su Wei-Jen E-mail: wsu02@barney.poly.edu ------------------------------ From: celestine@cix.compulink.co.uk (Michael Stockton) Date: Wed, 8 Nov 95 07:52 GMT Subject: On 6 November Greg Fieser said < a few paragraphs discuss her experiences in the SR-71.> What did she say on this matter Greg ? Grahame Stockton celestine@cix.compulink.co.uk ------------------------------ End of Skunk Works Digest V5 #502 ********************************* 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).