From: skunk-works-digest-owner@mail.orst.edu To: skunk-works-digest@mail.orst.edu Subject: Skunk Works Digest V5 #568 Reply-To: skunk-works-digest@mail.orst.edu Errors-To: skunk-works-digest-owner@mail.orst.edu Precedence: bulk Skunk Works Digest Thursday, 14 December 1995 Volume 05 : Number 568 In this issue: re: grounding of SR-71s 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: "Art Hanley" Date: Wed, 13 Dec 1995 19:55:30 +0700 Subject: re: grounding of SR-71s I, for one, haven't seen anything yet about grounding the reactivated SR-71s, but I have heard of something that may give rise to such a story. A number of stories in the general press said the SR-71s were being reactivated in order to be used in Bosnia. This wasn't the case. The reasons for the SR-71 reactivation were broader than that and the decision to bring them back had been made before Bosnia had really taken center stage in the US. However, it made for a good story, so it kept being printed. Recently, the decision seems to be have been made at high level that the SR will not be detached to Europe for use over Bosnia. This could be that now that 'peace is at hand' and since everyone over there now obviously loves everyone else there is not as much need for the SR's survivability advantage or the enormous amount of data it can collect in a given time. Also, though it should not be forgotten that there are still a lot of people in USAF who hate this aircraft and may have just decided they don't want it to get any favorable publicity (This is not an uncommon phenomena, many similar examples come to mind). I don't really know. The point is that with the previous stories that the SR was being reactivated because of the Bosnian situation, news that the SR-71 was not going to be used there might tend to be interpreted that the planes were being grounded. Then again, it's not safe to rule anything out any more... Art ------------------------------ End of Skunk Works Digest V5 #568 ********************************* 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).