From: skunk-works-digest-owner@mail.orst.edu To: skunk-works-digest@mail.orst.edu Subject: Skunk Works Digest V5 #559 Reply-To: skunk-works-digest@mail.orst.edu Errors-To: skunk-works-digest-owner@mail.orst.edu Precedence: bulk Skunk Works Digest Friday, 8 December 1995 Volume 05 : Number 559 In this issue: 2nite's WINGS Power spectum and their significance R/WB-57F More R/WB-57F Re: More R/WB-57F New gotta-have book Re: More R/WB-57F Re: New gotta-have book Re: New gotta-have book Weightless flight Mig 25 and Skunk Works 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: BaDge Date: Thu, 7 Dec 1995 08:36:06 -0500 (EST) Subject: 2nite's WINGS 1800 - "Discov. Chann. Recon and Intel Planes - spy planes" regards, ________ BaDge ------------------------------ From: "Terry Colvin" Date: Thu, 07 Dec 95 08:26:41 EST Subject: Power spectum and their significance Hi I am computing power spectral estimates for some time series data. Can anyone tell me the standard significance tests for both blackman-tuckey as well as fft ? I have found one test using the chi-square distribution. I want to know what are the standard tests used for testing the spectra? My sample size is about 100 years. Thanks in advance G Asha Centre for Atmospheric Sciences Indian Institute of Science Bangalore - 560 012 e-mail : nivedita@cas.iisc.ernet.in ------------------------------ From: tcrobi@most.magec.com (Tom Robison) Date: Thu, 7 Dec 1995 11:06:32 +0500 Subject: R/WB-57F Does anyone know where I can find an online photo of a R/WB-57F? Either USAF or NASA markings. I checked the NASA Dryden photo file, they have everything but the -57F. Appreciate any and all ideas. Thanks Tom Robison "Like the depths of the sea, the atmosphere allows us minor degrees of penetration and easily reveals it's basic structure. But there are certain secrets both elements hold in reserve, and it is not too farfetched to suppose that only the dead have ever truly discovered them." Ernest K. Gann ------------------------------ From: tcrobi@most.magec.com (Tom Robison) Date: Thu, 7 Dec 1995 11:08:46 +0500 Subject: More R/WB-57F Does anyone have any ideas what types of recon the -57F was used for besides weather & atmospheric research. I understand some of it's work was a little skunky. Tom Robison "Like the depths of the sea, the atmosphere allows us minor degrees of penetration and easily reveals it's basic structure. But there are certain secrets both elements hold in reserve, and it is not too farfetched to suppose that only the dead have ever truly discovered them." Ernest K. Gann ------------------------------ From: Charles_E._Smith.wbst200@xerox.com Date: Thu, 7 Dec 1995 10:03:11 PST Subject: Re: More R/WB-57F It carried a 40,000 lb camera which no other platform could accomidate. Chuck ------------------------------ From: Mary Shafer Date: Thu, 7 Dec 1995 15:38:36 -0500 (EST) Subject: New gotta-have book This book is precisely one YF-12C page away from being totally off-topic for the mailing list, but fortunately the authors did include 937, so I'm "legal". "One-Of-A-Kind Research Aircraft: A History of In-Flight Simulators, Testbeds, and Prototypes" by Steve Markman and Bill Holder. See my career in pictures! Read large chunks of my In-Flight Simulation paper (copies available by request, if only a few people ask)! Be astounded and amazed by all the odd things we tried to do, mostly to jets, since the 1950's. Discover that you know more about Blackbirds than did the authors of the book. Currently available from Zenith Books, soon to be available at the Dryden gift shop (no sales tax, cheap shipping, good cause). 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.... ------------------------------ From: Mary Shafer Date: Thu, 7 Dec 1995 15:46:51 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: More R/WB-57F Dryden supported JAWS, the Joint Adverse Weather Study, which involved NASA and JCAR, the Joint Center for Atmospheric Research with our B-57. They were out looking for downbursts and microbursts. Nothing skunky that I ever new about, but this was a faily small program. Houston (JSC) had B-57s for research for _years_. 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, 7 Dec 1995, Tom Robison wrote: > Does anyone have any ideas what types of recon the -57F was used for > besides weather & atmospheric research. I understand some of it's work was > a little skunky. > > Tom Robison > > "Like the depths of the sea, the atmosphere allows us minor degrees of > penetration and easily reveals it's basic structure. But there are certain > secrets both elements hold in reserve, and it is not too farfetched to > suppose that only the dead have ever truly discovered them." Ernest > K. Gann > > ------------------------------ From: Charles_E._Smith.wbst200@xerox.com Date: Thu, 7 Dec 1995 13:14:13 PST Subject: Re: New gotta-have book Mary, Is that the paper we discussed? If so folks, its a goody. Chuck ------------------------------ From: Mary Shafer Date: Thu, 7 Dec 1995 18:10:25 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: New gotta-have book The pictures are a little smaller in the TM version, and there are a couple of small errors in the AAHS version that were corrected in this one, but yeah, it's the same paper. 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, 7 Dec 1995 Charles_E._Smith.wbst200@xerox.com wrote: > Mary, > Is that the paper we discussed? If so folks, its a goody. > Chuck ------------------------------ From: jally@interlog.com (J. Ally) Date: Thu, 7 Dec 1995 21:00:27 -0500 Subject: Weightless flight I'm doing a project on human adaptations to flight and space. In the last Air and Space magazine I read about a company in Wyoming that gives weightless parabola flights for $1000. I'm wondering if anyone knows what type of equipment the plane must have to safely take humans through zero gravity, and what type apparel must be worn by the pilots and passengers. Any information about this or any other human adaptations to flight and space would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Jamie jally@interlog.com ------------------------------ From: Wei-Jen Su Date: Fri, 8 Dec 1995 02:13:25 -0500 (EST) Subject: Mig 25 and Skunk Works Do someone know if the team that was sent to analyse the Mig 25 in Japan in 1973 (?) after the desertion of the Soviet pilot was the Skunk Works team???? Thanks in advance. May the Force be with you Su Wei-Jen E-mail: wsu02@barney.poly.edu ------------------------------ End of Skunk Works Digest V5 #559 ********************************* 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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