skunk-works-digest Sunday, May 3 1998 Volume 07 : Number 026 Index of this digest by subject: *************************************************** Shock Wave thickness Its Offical now Re: Its Offical now The New Mexico Air Force or the longest test message to date. TESTING...TESTING...Majordomo results: help Re: TESTING...TESTING...Majordomo results: help Re: TESTING...TESTING...Majordomo results: help Shock Wave thickness Kinda off topic GPS question Kinda off topic GPS question *************************************************** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 26 Apr 1998 01:15:20 -0400 (EDT) From: Wei-Jen Su Subject: Shock Wave thickness Since the list is slow, I have a non-skunky question. For those whom are into fluids dynamics: There is any paper publish regarding of how to calculate the thickness of a shock wave? Thanks in advances. May the Force be with you Su Wei-Jen E-mails: wsu02@utopia.poly.edu wjs@webspan.net "What's the purpose of the propeller? To keep the pilot cool. If you don't think so, just stop it and watch him sweat!" ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 18:47:23 -0500 (CDT) From: John Szalay Subject: Its Offical now - --=====================_893731625==_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I guess that this makes it offical now. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - --=====================_893731625==_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" 980558. Air Force retiring SR-71 Blackbirds LANGLEY AIR FORCE BASE, Va. (AFNS) -- The legendary SR-71 Blackbird, a pioneer in reconnaissance aircraft, will be permanently retired from Air Force operations. The decision follows the secretary of defense's approval March 6 to permanently retire the aircraft following the president's line-item veto of the Defense Appropriations Act in October. The Air Force currently owns six SR-71 reconnaissance aircraft. Two SR-71A operational models were brought back to active duty in 1995 at the direction of Congress; two, including the SR-71B trainer model, are on loan to NASA for their high-altitude testing program; and two remain in returnable storage. The Air Force is currently planning for final disposition of the airframes and associated material. Some of the SR-71 reconnaissance systems will be transferred to the U-2 and other programs. Some equipment will be transferred to NASA to support its program. Material not transferable to other programs will be disposed. Any airframes not required by NASA will either be transferred to Air Force bases for permanent display or sent to the Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz. There the airframes would await U.S. Air Force Museum disposition. Known as the Blackbird, the SR-71's existence was first announced by former President Lyndon Johnson in 1964. Although operationally assigned to the 9th Reconnaissance Wing at Beale AFB, Calif., the program was operating at Edwards AFB, Calif. While in the Air Force inventory, the SR-71 set numerous world high-altitude and speed records. On July 28, 1976, an SR-71 flew 2,194 mph to set both the world absolute and class speed records over a 15- to 25-kilometer straight course. That same day, another SR-71 flew to 85,069 feet setting the record for sustained horizontal height. (Courtesy of Air Combat Command News Service) - --=====================_893731625==_-- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Apr 98 04:47:48 GMT From: betnal@ns.net Subject: Re: Its Offical now Note the decision to send some to Davis Monthan. This is USAF hostility once again. It makes no sense to do this, since they could just sit out in the desert where they are now like they've been doing for all these years. Sending them to DM only makes sense as an excuse to cut the wings "for transport" in order to insure they can never be restored to flight (if they don't try and cut them up totally at DM). Art ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 03:34:58 -0700 From: patrick Subject: The New Mexico Air Force or the longest test message to date. 980567. Southwest Asia unit takes on southwestern flair by Staff Sgt. George Hayward 4406th Operations Group (Provisional) Public Affairs SOUTHWEST ASIA (AFNS) -- There's talk of raising the New Mexico state flag over the Hog Rock Dining Facility at a deployed location here. Why not? The place feels like home for more than a third of the people here. The arrival recently of the Air National Guard's 150th Fighter Wing from Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M., created an odd operational coincidence at the 4406th. Units from each base in one southwestern U.S. desert state now have people and aircraft deployed to the deserts of one Southwest Asian nation. All U.S. aircraft now deployed here are out of New Mexico. Besides those aircraft, nearly 700 of the roughly 2,000 Air Force people tracked by the Personnel Support in Contingency Operations office here -- including Air Force people within other operating areas of the theater in support of Operation Southern Watch -- are deployed here from New Mexico. But for those people, Operation Southern Watch at the 4406th isn't much different than their daily jobs at home. The mission -- enforcing the no-fly zone over southern Iraq -- is very real-world. But the land looks somewhat "homey." "This place looks just like home," said Senior Master Sgt. Don Esposito, a production superintendent deployed with F-16s from the 523rd Fighter Squadron, Cannon Air Force Base, N.M. "It's flat and the same environment -- hot." Accustomed to operating in such conditions, most New Mexico deployees say they faced little difficulty adjusting to the middle eastern climate. "By coming from New Mexico, there are few other units in Air Combat Command who can pick up stakes and come over here to operate with no adjustments," said Maj. Andy Lasher, an F-117 pilot and assistant director of operations for the 9th Fighter Squadron, Holloman AFB, N.M. "The terrain we fly over here is the same as we fly over back home." Esposito said that familiarity let his squadron's operations "come on line really quick," although the 523rd is on their first rotation to Southwest Asia. The transition was also easy for the newly arrived 150th Fighter Wing. Although this is their first deployment to the Middle East since 1980, the "home turf" experience at Albuquerque let them slide right into the fast-paced operational tempo. Their F-16s flew sorties the day after landing in theater. "With the training we have at home, we were ready for this," said Senior Master Sgt. Jesse Pacheco, a flightline superintendent with the 150th FW. Pacheco has been with the unit for 33 years, including 18 months in Vietnam when the unit was activated in the late 1960s, and the 1980 deployment. He was one of "too many" volunteers for Southwest Asia. "When the call came (to deploy), we had so many volunteers we had to turn people away," said Maj. Wayne Albright, 150th Aircraft Generation Squadron commander. "I think that just like in the regular Air Force, this shows why you do all the practice and training," said Staff Sgt. Ron Bustos, 150th FW avionics technician. "This is where it all comes together." But it wouldn't come together without teamwork born not only of familiarity with the terrain, but also with each other. "Our workings with each other are probably the best in the air combat community because we operate in the same airspace at home," Lasher said. "We know each other. It enhances our mission operability by being able to talk." Albright said his unit has often worked with Cannon F-16s back in New Mexico. "We wash each other's hands," he said. "If they have problems, they know they can come to us." That cooperation has resulted in increased operational effectiveness for the F-16 units. Staff Sgt. Bart Phillips, the 523rd's phase dock chief, said his shop has been able to return jets from phase -- an aircraft's version of a tune-up and engine check -- quicker than they do at home. He attributes it to the deployed location. Away from families and normal lives, people have more time to help each other. "We've turned jets, so far, in minimal time. The jets have flown perfectly and we've had Z-D (zero defects) in our phases," Phillips said. "People in other shops are always around to help. When we need something, it gets done right away." Despite the long work hours and distance from home, the willingness to "get things done" also boosts unit morale. "You get to know people better and become a tighter group," said Senior Airman Mike Nelson, an F-117 crew chief. "It's not just the crew chiefs that pull together. It's all the different sections that pull together to help each other out. Even in the tents, we get everything we need." In the meantime, "home" sometimes just needs to look familiar. On his eighth deployment to Southwest Asia, Chief Master Sgt. Stephen Hutton, 523rd FS said that first-time deployees often have the wrong impression before they arrive here. "They think it's going to be barren and desolate. Then they arrive and they're pleasantly surprised." Senior Airman Tommie Schexnayder and Airman 1st Class Josh Schulz, crew chiefs from Cannon, stood in the shade of an F-16 wing on the flightline recently. The heat shimmered on the tarmac while the temperature hovered just above 100 degrees. "This is a lot like New Mexico," Schulz said. Schexnayder nodded in agreement. "Still a desert." The only thing missing was the state flag. (Courtesy of ACC News Service) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 16:07:50 GMT From: georgek@netwrx1.com (George R. Kasica) Subject: TESTING...TESTING...Majordomo results: help This is the "Majordomo" mailing list manager, version 1.94.1. 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