From: skunk-works-digest-owner@mail.orst.edu To: skunk-works-digest@mail.orst.edu Subject: Skunk Works Digest V5 #504 Reply-To: skunk-works-digest@mail.orst.edu Errors-To: skunk-works-digest-owner@mail.orst.edu Precedence: bulk Skunk Works Digest Thursday, 9 November 1995 Volume 05 : Number 504 In this issue: Re: SR-71 paint 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: Michael Chui Date: Thu, 09 Nov 1995 00:00:22 -0500 Subject: Re: SR-71 paint Wei-Jen Su writes: > 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!!!! From _Skunk Works_ (Rich, B. and Janos, L., 1994), p. 327: "...Another frustrating example was the stubborn insistence of the Air Force to have its insignia painted on the wings and fuselage of the SR-71 Blackbird, even though no one would ever see it at eighty-five thousand feet; finding a way to keep the enamel from burning off under the enormous surface temperatures and maintain its true red, white, and blue colors took our chief chemist, Mel George, weeks of experimentation and cost the government thousands of unnecessary dollars." Michael Chui mchui@cs.indiana.edu ------------------------------ End of Skunk Works Digest V5 #504 ********************************* 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).