From: skunk-works-digest-owner@mail.orst.edu To: skunk-works-digest@mail.orst.edu Subject: Skunk Works Digest V5 #552 Reply-To: skunk-works-digest@mail.orst.edu Errors-To: skunk-works-digest-owner@mail.orst.edu Precedence: bulk Skunk Works Digest Monday, 4 December 1995 Volume 05 : Number 552 In this issue: Titanium, reprise Re: Mystery Plane (a new idea) Re: Titanium, reprise ARPA AAA (nope... not the insurrance) 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: "Ralph S. Hoefelmeyer" <70436.511@compuserve.com> Date: 03 Dec 95 22:36:23 EST Subject: Titanium, reprise Hi, This Titanium thread has been up before. To show how ubiquitous Titanium is becoming, look at the Jan 96 issue of Guns magazine, page 2. There's a full page ad for a limited edition of Colt Anaconda .44 magnum pistols, completely plated with Titanium. Also, Ruger is supposed to be investigating the use of Titanium in semi-automatic pistol frames. With the increasing civilian use of Titanium, and the techniques to manufacture with it, does anyone think it may see more use in main-stream fighter aircraft, as well as high-speed skunk-works type vehicles? I've always been under the impression that the difficulty of machining it precluded more widespread use. Though, there are laser cintering techniques under study for Titanium, as well as other refractory materials. Any thoughts or comments? (besides saving up for a totally Titanium pistol!) Ralph "Tis better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heav'n." Milton, Paradise Lost "Colorado Springs is the Holy City of the West" AP News "Does anyone have directions to Hell?" Ralph, living in Colorado Springs ------------------------------ From: Brett Davidson Date: Mon, 4 Dec 1995 17:00:09 +1300 (NZDT) Subject: Re: Mystery Plane (a new idea) > > Now, it strikes that the PS (IF it exists etc etc) could get into the air > under its own power and still reach the suborbital-orbital (?) realm > alone. However, as the Mothership (assuming that THAT exists) is assumed OOPS. I meant that "it strikes me as UNLIKELY that it could get into the air..." - --Brett ------------------------------ From: Wei-Jen Su Date: Mon, 4 Dec 1995 02:10:47 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: Titanium, reprise On 3 Dec 1995, Ralph S. Hoefelmeyer wrote: > Hi, > This Titanium thread has been up before. To show how ubiquitous Titanium is > becoming, look at the Jan 96 issue of Guns magazine, page 2. There's a full > page ad for a limited edition of Colt Anaconda .44 magnum pistols, completely > plated with Titanium. Also, Ruger is supposed to be investigating the use of > Titanium in semi-automatic pistol frames. > Uhhhh... they even have plastic thermoresistente pistol. Therefore, it is not metal detectable. I don't know about the bullets... > With the increasing civilian use of Titanium, and the techniques to manufacture > with it, does anyone think it may see more use in main-stream fighter aircraft, > as well as high-speed skunk-works type vehicles? I've always been under the > impression that the difficulty of machining it precluded more widespread use. > Though, there are laser cintering techniques under study for Titanium, as well > as other refractory materials. > hmmm... I remember read something that the Titanium is a metal very escase around the world, therefore some Titanium part of the F-15 were made by Titanium from the ex-Soviet mine... > Any thoughts or comments? (besides saving up for a totally Titanium pistol!) Yeap... I have a Titanium watch :P May the Force be with you Su Wei-Jen E-mail: wsu02@barney.poly.edu ------------------------------ From: Wei-Jen Su Date: Mon, 4 Dec 1995 02:16:48 -0500 (EST) Subject: ARPA I always heard of a lot of very interesting projects done by ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Agency). Does they have the same structure like Skunk-Works??? I mean, does they are the best of the best scientist and engineer??? They run by the goverment only??? etc. etc. etc. Thanks in advance... May the Force be with you Su Wei-Jen E-mail: wsu02@barney.poly.edu ------------------------------ From: Wei-Jen Su Date: Mon, 4 Dec 1995 02:27:18 -0500 (EST) Subject: AAA (nope... not the insurrance) I recently find out four AAA hidden in the army base Fort Totten located in Little Bay, Queens, NYC. Each one have four cannon, I beliece is a 30 mm. caliber, I am not sure. I don't know for what they have those cannon in middle of NYC, look like a obsolete against the technology of today. I was looking around but not luck to find SAM sites. How I got in??? secret... May the Force be with you Su Wei-Jen E-mail: wsu02@barney.poly.edu ------------------------------ End of Skunk Works Digest V5 #552 ********************************* 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. 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