From: owner-skunk-works-digest@netwrx1.com (skunk-works-digest) To: skunk-works-digest@netwrx1.com Subject: skunk-works-digest V9 #35 Reply-To: skunk-works@netwrx1.com Sender: owner-skunk-works-digest@netwrx1.com Errors-To: owner-skunk-works-digest@netwrx1.com Precedence: bulk skunk-works-digest Tuesday, May 2 2000 Volume 09 : Number 035 Index of this digest by subject: *************************************************** Ikonos pic of A51 ANZAC Day - Lest We Forget Network Outage Repaired USAF"global hawk" UAV record SSBJ could mirror Skunk Works design Re: SSBJ could mirror Skunk Works design Re: SSBJ could mirror Skunk Works design Re: SSBJ could mirror Skunk Works design Re: SSBJ could mirror Skunk Works design Re: SSBJ could mirror Skunk Works design Gary Powers To Be Honored Active jamming radar? It's been forty years Holloman AFB Airshow 2000 Re: Gary Powers To Be Honored Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 16:46:14 -0400 *************************************************** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 16:12:44 -0500 From: "Allen Thomson" Subject: Ikonos pic of A51 Space Imaging has now delivered the picture of A51 FAS ordered. It's at the much enhanced http://www.fas.org/irp/overhead/groom.htm , along with some quick PI work. Good stuff, though the near-noontime/near-vertical-incidence shot kind of minimizes the PI possibilities. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 09:32:13 +0930 From: Dennis Lapcewich Subject: ANZAC Day - Lest We Forget On 25 April 1915, soldiers from the combined Australian and New Zealand military forces (the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps, or ANZACs) were ordered to storm the beaches at Suvla Bay, Turkey. Better known as Gallipoli, this decision by their British commanders (who remained offshore as typical of British military commanders of the day who regularly ordered their colonies' men to battle while British soldiers were kept out of harms way), would result in the greatest military defeat in Australian history. For 85 years, one day in the year has involved the whole of Australia in solemn ceremonies of remembrance, gratitude and national pride for all our men and women who have fought and died in all wars. That day is ANZAC Day - 25 April. Every nation must, sooner or later, come for the first time to a supreme test of quality; and the result of that test will hearten or dishearten those who come afterwards. For the fledgling nation of Australia that first supreme test was at Gallipoli. As an American living overseas, I am amazed that on one day of the year, Aussies of all ages, including ever-increasing numbers of young people, put aside *everything* and remember. I am amazed because Australians could give a rat's ass for anything ceremonial other than to enjoy a casual lifestyle, a cold beer and a shrimp on the barbie. But on this day, they all remember. And you don't have to be an Australian here to feel what freedom is all about. Lest we forget.... "They shall grow not old ... as we that are left grow old "Age shall not weary them, nor the years contemn* "At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, we will remember them ..." ANZAC Australia New Zealand Army Corps * "contemn" original interpretation for "contempt" To all on this list who served, who are serving, and especially to those made the supreme sacrifice in the defense of freedom, thank you. Thanks Dad (Sgt - United States Marine Corps, WWII), Mom (Sgt - United States Army, WWII), and Big Brother (Sgt - United States Army, Vietnam). Dennis - -------------------------------------------------------- Dennis Lapcewich - Webmaster ITS Corporate Web Services University of South Australia Adelaide, Australia Dennis.Lapcewich@UniSA.edu.au www.unisa.edu.au kemosabe@ksasystems.com www.ksasystems.com www.ksasystems.com/prolink ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 16:03:53 -0500 From: "George R. Kasica" Subject: Network Outage Repaired Hello: As you are aware you have been unable to reach the netwrx1 server since around 1000pm on Monday Evening 4/24/2000. This outage is now cleared as of 330pm Tuesday afternoon 4/25/00 and all server processes are normal. The outage was caused by a failure with the Ameritech ISDN circuit that connects the server to the Internet. Apparently a Line Card in the telephone company office failed and had to be replaced. The other side effect of this was a change in the way we need to make the connection to our provider (we now have to dial a 1 and the area code). NO data was lost during this time and email web services are working at this time. My Sincerest apologies for the outage, however it was totally beyond our control. Hopefully it will not occur again. Thank you for your understanding, ===[George R. Kasica]=== +1 262 513 8503 President +1 206 374 6482 FAX Netwrx Consulting Inc. Waukesha, WI USA http://www.netwrx1.com georgek@netwrx1.com ICQ #12862186 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 09:32:14 PDT From: "wayne binkley" Subject: USAF"global hawk" UAV record
 
 


    Global Hawk UAV sets new endurance record

26 April 2000

The US Air Force's Global Hawk Unmanned Aerial Vehicle set a new world endurance record for jet-powered, unmanned aircraft. On its 48th mission earlier this month, Global Hawk reached an altitude of 65,100 feetduring a 31.5-hour period. The previous record, which stood for 26 years, was 28.2 hours, held by the Compass Cope-R remotely-piloted vehicle.


Global Hawk

The primary goal of this sortie, which brings the total number of Global Hawk flight test hours up to 576, was a fifth functional check flight for Air Vehicle No. 4, according to Lt. Col. Pat Bolibrzuch, Global Hawk programme manager, Reconnaissance Systems Programme Office Wright-Patterson AFB.

"Our flight test team focused on validating performance of several Global Hawk missions planned during the system's East Coast deployment to Eglin Air Force Base," Bolibrzuch said. "We completed integration tests of its synthetic aperture radar, or SAR, and did a final systems checkout."

Using two separate Ku-band satellites, the team also established communications, command and control, and datalink capabilities for Air Vehicle No. 4 across transcontinental distances, during which the UAV captured a record number of 459 images, the colonel said.

"Global Hawk took 243 SAR spot, 51 SAR Wide-Area Search and 165 Ground-Movement Target Indicator images," Bolibrzuch said. "We also were able to demonstrate successful connectivity of voice and datalink communications between Air Vehicle No. 4 and the Launch and Recovery Element, now temporarily located at Eglin for the deployment, as well as with the Mission Control Element, temporarily located at the Joint Warfighting Centre in Suffolk, Va."

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------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 00:43:45 -0700 (PDT) From: CFA3@webtv.net (C.F.A.3) Subject: SSBJ could mirror Skunk Works design - --WebTV-Mail-15805-2061 Content-Type: Text/Plain; Charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit This article discusses, among other things, the Lockheed patent on a Sonic-Boom cancellation design for aircraft. I had not read about this before. I assume I am the last one to hear about it? C http://community.webtv.net/CFA3/GroomLakeAudubon - --WebTV-Mail-15805-2061 X-URL-Title: SSBJ could mirror Skunk Works design Content-Disposition: Inline Content-Type: Text/Plain; Charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit http://www.ainonline.com/april_skunk_10.html - --WebTV-Mail-15805-2061-- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 01:38:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Wei-Jen Su Subject: Re: SSBJ could mirror Skunk Works design On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, C.F.A.3 wrote: > This article discusses, among other things, the Lockheed patent on a > Sonic-Boom cancellation design for aircraft. I had not read about this > before. I assume I am the last one to hear about it? > > http://www.ainonline.com/april_skunk_10.html > The article says: "(The drawings shown here are for a twin-engine unmanned aircraft, the only configuration illustrated in the patent document.)" I wonder where you can get the drawing. Thanks in advance! May the Force be with you Wei-Jen Su E-mail: wsu@its.caltech.edu - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "...When the child was a child it was the time of these questions: Why am I me, and why not you? Why am I here, and why not there? When did time begin, and where does space end?..." Peter Handke ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 08:33:04 -0500 From: Overkill Subject: Re: SSBJ could mirror Skunk Works design Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 01:38:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Wei-Jen Su Subject: Re: SSBJ could mirror Skunk Works design >The article says: "(The drawings shown here are for a twin-engine unmanned >aircraft, the only configuration illustrated in the patent document.)" > >I wonder where you can get the drawing. Thanks in advance! http://www.patents.ibm.com/cgi-bin/viewpat.cmd/US05934607__ Overkill ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 10:32:08 -0500 From: "Allen Thomson" Subject: Re: SSBJ could mirror Skunk Works design > > >The article says: "(The drawings shown here are for a twin-engine unmanned > >aircraft, the only configuration illustrated in the patent document.)" > > > >I wonder where you can get the drawing. Thanks in advance! > > > http://www.patents.ibm.com/cgi-bin/viewpat.cmd/US05934607__ > Isn't the Jerry Rising on the patent the current head of the X-33 program and a SW alumnus? ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Apr 00 13:45:14 -0500 From: wings Subject: Re: SSBJ could mirror Skunk Works design The Jerry J. Rising listed on the Patent, is indeed the Program Manager of the X-33 program. What is interesting, is his Bio says, that he was Program manager of classified Lockheed Martin Skunk Works programs, and he successfully led programs to achieve all goals on time and under budget. (1988-1995) Wayne wings@sky.net - -------------------------- >Subject: Re: SSBJ could mirror Skunk Works design >Sent: 4/30/20 4:43 PM >Received: 4/27/00 1:28 PM >From: Overkill, overkill@southtx.quik.com >Reply-To: skunkworks, skunk-works@netwrx1.com >To: skunkworks, skunk-works@netwrx1.com > >Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 01:38:32 -0700 (PDT) >From: Wei-Jen Su >Subject: Re: SSBJ could mirror Skunk Works design > >>The article says: "(The drawings shown here are for a twin-engine unmanned >>aircraft, the only configuration illustrated in the patent document.)" >> >>I wonder where you can get the drawing. Thanks in advance! > > >http://www.patents.ibm.com/cgi-bin/viewpat.cmd/US05934607__ > >Overkill Wayne Busse wings@sky.net Zz zZ |\ z _,,,---,,_ /,`.-'`' _ ;-;;,_ |,4- ) )-,_..;\ ( `'_' '---''(_/--' `-'\_) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 15:08:22 -0500 From: "Allen Thomson" Subject: Re: SSBJ could mirror Skunk Works design From: "wings" > The Jerry J. Rising listed on the Patent, is indeed the Program Manager > of the X-33 program. > > What is interesting, is his Bio says, that he was Program manager of > classified > Lockheed Martin Skunk Works programs, and he successfully led programs > to achieve all goals on time and under budget. (1988-1995) Which leads one to wonder what those programs were, and why X-33 doesn't seem to be following in the pattern. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 21:53:06 +0930 From: Dennis Lapcewich Subject: Gary Powers To Be Honored U.S. Finally to Honor Powers, U2 Spy Plane Pilot SACRAMENTO (Reuters) - Francis Gary Powers, the U2 spy plane pilot whose downing over the Soviet Union in 1960 became a pivotal event of the Cold War, will be posthumously awarded military honors Monday, exactly 40 years after his capture. Officials said Powers' family would be taken to an Air Force base north of Sacramento and presented with the Prisoner-of-War Medal, the Distinguished Flying Cross and the National Defense Service Medal in recognition of his service to the country. ``The Powers family is proud and honored that my father is receiving this honor and distinction, even if it has taken 40 years,'' Powers' son Gary Powers, Jr., said in an interview. See http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000427/ts/people_powers_2.html ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 01 May 2000 12:50:36 -0700 From: Timothy Toth Subject: Active jamming radar? I was reading recently that the Northrop Grumman MIRFS/MFA radar (AESA design) for the JSF successfully demonstrated its performance in air-to-air, SAR, GMTI and active and passive EW. A few years back, I was reading an article about an exercise in the mediteranean. (If I remember well it was a simulated attack on a carrier group by foreign airforces). The article gave the impression that the E-2C (in this case not EA-6B) was used to jam the radars of attacking aircraft. So my question is what aircraft radars already have this active jamming capability (if any)? With the knowledge of current radars that I have (admittedly limited), it seems possible that some radars already have this capability. The limitations being the sector and bands covered by the radar (not such a limitation for AWACS aircraft). 'Computer power' (?). And unless you have a good time sharing capability (or mutiple emitter/receivers such as an AESA design) the radar would be useless when used in jamming mode, right ?. Totally unrelated: Pulse detonation rocket engine testing begins at Marshall Centre http://defence-data.com/current/page7064.htm Timothy ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 16:56:53 -0400 (EDT) From: David Allison Subject: It's been forty years Hello, Just wanted to remind everyone that it was 40 years ago today that Gary Powers got shot down over the Soviet Union. Also 35 years since Fox Stephens took the world speed record from the MiG-25 and gave it to the YF-12. Powers' family is being given the medals today that Gary should have been given 38 years ago. Stephens is being immortalized by having the airport in his home town of Gilmer Texas named for him later this year. As long as we're talking about the U-2, there's a good book out there you should read, written by a retired Tech Sargeant who used to work on her camera systems: http://www.habu.org/meandu2/ FYI I'm hosting the page as a favor to the author. I'm not making a penny off the book or the page, just in case anyone might think otherwise. - D - David Allison webmaster@habu.org S L O W E R T R A F F I C K E E P R I G H T tm / \ / \ _/ ___ \_ ________/ \_______/V!V\_______/ \_______ \__/ \___/ \__/ www.habu.org The OnLine Blackbird Museum ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 19:35:34 -0400 (EDT) From: Kathryn & Andreas Gehrs-Pahl Subject: Holloman AFB Airshow 2000 Hi Skunkers, Does anybody plan on going to the Holloman AFB "Airshow 2000" next Sunday, May 7? If yes, maybe we could meet there, before, or even afterwards. I will hang around the base, starting on Friday, and hope the wind will be right, so I can see the U-2S land, and maybe some of the other expected aircraft. As I don't have a radio scanner, I will just sit there with my camera, binoculars, laptop computer, some pop, and snacks. I would be happy if anyone wants to join me. The following aircraft are scheduled to fly in/be there: Locals: ======= * Lockheed Martin F-117A Nighthawks * Northrop Grumman T-38A Talons * McDonnell Douglas (Boeing) F-4Fs Phantom IIs (German Air Force) * Panavia Tornados (German Air Force) Other Current Military: ======================= * Lockheed Martin U-2S 'Dragon Lady' (from Beale AFB, CA) * Northrop Grumman B-2A Spirit (overfly on Sunday, only) * McDonnell Douglas (Boeing) F-15C/D Eagle (from Langley AFB, VA) * McDonnell Douglas (Boeing) F-15E Strike Eagle (from Mountain Home AFB, ID) * Lockheed Martin F-16C/D Fighting Falcon ("Air Dogs" team) * Fairchild A-10A Thunderbolt II ("Warthogs" demo team, from 355th Wing, DM) * Thunderbirds (Lockheed Martin F-16C/D, from Nellis AFB, NV) * Beechcraft (Raytheon) C-12J Huron * McDonnell Douglas (Boeing) C-17A Globemaster III * Lockheed Martin C-130 Hercules * Sikorsky HH-60G Pave Hawk (from Nellis AFB, NV) * Sikorsky HH-53J/M Pave Low III/IV * Canadair CT-114 Tutor * "US Army Flarecopter" (Bell UH-1s ???) WWII and Korea Warbirds: ======================== * Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress (also for the "Tora Tora Tora" show) * NAA B-25 Mitchell (also for "Tora Tora Tora") * Lockheed P-38 Lightning (also for "Tora Tora Tora") * Republic P-47 Thunderbolt (also for "Tora Tora Tora") * NAA P-51D Mustang (for "Tora Tora Tora" and "Air Dogs" F-15/F-16/P-51) * Bell P-63 King Cobra (Frank Borman's plane) * Vought F4U Corsair * Lockheed C-121J Super Constellation * NAA AT-6 (modified as Japanese "Zero Zens", for "Tora Tora Tora") * Vultee BT-15 (Valiant) * Stearman (Boeing) PT-17 Kaydet * Stinson L-5 Sentinel * NAA T-28 Trojan (maybe civilian/warbird/military ??) * Lockheed T-33 'T-bird'/'Silver Star' (maybe civilian/warbird/military ??) * Beechcraft T-34 Mentor (maybe civilian/warbird/military ??) * Canadair (NAA) F-86E Sabre Mk.6 (Frank Borman's plane, dog fight MiG-15) * MiG-15 (mock dog fight with F-86) Others: ======= * Pitts Special S2S * Cessna 150 (maybe USAF Academy or CAP ???) * USAF Academy's Wings of Blue parachute team * USAF honor guard drill team from Bolling AFB, Washington, D.C. * US Army Band from Ft. Bliss, TX - -- Andreas - --- --- Andreas & Kathryn Gehrs-Pahl E-Mail: schnars@ais.org 1517 Michigan Avenue or: gpahl@wazoo.com Alamogordo, NM 88310 Tel: (505) 437-0378 WWW URL: http://www.ais.org/~schnars/ - --- --- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 02 May 2000 12:22:36 -0700 From: "A.J. Craddock" Subject: Re: Gary Powers To Be Honored One wonders when the U.S. will also finally fess up to the fact that Powers' plane was most likely "shot down" not by a Soviet missile (which was actually a decoy), but by a prototype Soviet scalar (longitudinal EM wave interferometer) electromagnetic weapon. This of course explains the two major anomalies, that Powers' U-2 was flying higher than any known missile's range, and the mysterious "lingering" of the flash (mentioned by Powers in his book) that downed the plane - almost certainly the signature of longitudinal EM wave interferometry, which can produce EM fields and waves arising out of each point in the interference zone. Used behind the plane so that the plane's controls and engines would be jammed, and the plane and Powers could be recovered, the signature would be a sudden "burst of light" which remained there -- something quite different from a missile burst. This is what Powers described seeing. On the positive side, I guess it could be said that Defense Secretary Cohen has at least brought the issue of this weaponry, and the renegade international cabals that control them, out of the closet with his remarks at an April 1997 counterterrorism conference sponsored by former Senator Sam Nunn. "Others [terrorists] are engaging even in an eco-type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves... So there are plenty of ingenious minds out there that are at work finding ways in which they can wreak terror upon other nations...It's real, and that's the reason why we have to intensify our [counterterrorism] efforts." Quoted from DoD News Briefing, Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen, Q&A at the Conference on Terrorism, Weapons of Mass Destruction, and U.S. Strategy, University of Georgia, Athens, Apr. 28, 1997 A handful of national groups now possess these longitudinal EM wave interferometer weapons. And, in a strange quirk, many of these adversaries use West Australia as a test range. In addition, there seem to be even more powerful weapons, believed to be possessed by only three nations, with Brazil being the latest to join the exclusive QP (quantum potential) club. China is believed to be feverishly trying to develop them. For a brief history of scalar EM weaponry see http://www.cseti.org/bearden/analysis/history.htm Saddest of all is the fact that if one is so minded to use the technology for more constructive uses than generating earthquakes, shooting down unarmed Space Shuttles or civilian airliners, one has an instant engine for reversing cancers and the like. Sounds starry-eyed? Check out the history of the Priore machine in France (http://www.cseti.org/bearden/aids/priore.htm.) Funded by the French government in the amount of several million dollars, Priore's machines concretely demonstrated a nearly 100% cure of all kinds of terminal cancers and leukemias, in thousands of rigorous laboratory tests with animals. These results were shown to medical scientists as early as 1960. Then the plug was pulled, and the technology went "deep black" to power France's longitudinal EM wave weapons program. Knowledge of this medical technology is not, of course, limited to France! Think about this the next time you watch a family member dying of cancer and concurrently sing the praises of out of control black programs. That's the price you pay. Incidentally, for the real mechanism involved in cancer development, see http://www.cseti.org/bearden/cancer/cancer.htm Tony Craddock At 09:53 PM 4/28/00 +0930, you wrote: >U.S. Finally to Honor Powers, U2 Spy Plane Pilot > >SACRAMENTO (Reuters) - Francis Gary Powers, the U2 spy plane pilot whose >downing over the Soviet Union in 1960 became a pivotal event of the Cold War, >will be posthumously awarded military honors Monday, exactly 40 years >after his >capture. > >Officials said Powers' family would be taken to an Air Force base north of >Sacramento and presented with the Prisoner-of-War Medal, the Distinguished >Flying Cross and the National Defense Service Medal in recognition of his >service to the country. > >``The Powers family is proud and honored that my father is receiving this >honor >and distinction, even if it has taken 40 years,'' Powers' son Gary Powers, >Jr., >said in an interview. > >See http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000427/ts/people_powers_2.html ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 16:46:14 -0400 From: "Morris, Andrew" Subject: Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 16:46:14 -0400 Sounds more like the work of the Trilateral Commission. - -----Original Message----- From: A.J. Craddock [mailto:craddock@west.net] Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2000 3:23 PM To: skunk-works@netwrx1.com Subject: Re: Gary Powers To Be Honored One wonders when the U.S. will also finally fess up to the fact that Powers' plane was most likely "shot down" not by a Soviet missile (which was actually a decoy), but by a prototype Soviet scalar (longitudinal EM wave interferometer) electromagnetic weapon. This of course explains the two major anomalies, that Powers' U-2 was flying higher than any known missile's range, and the mysterious "lingering" of the flash (mentioned by Powers in his book) that downed the plane - almost certainly the signature of longitudinal EM wave interferometry, which can produce EM fields and waves arising out of each point in the interference zone. Used behind the plane so that the plane's controls and engines would be jammed, and the plane and Powers could be recovered, the signature would be a sudden "burst of light" which remained there -- something quite different from a missile burst. This is what Powers described seeing. On the positive side, I guess it could be said that Defense Secretary Cohen has at least brought the issue of this weaponry, and the renegade international cabals that control them, out of the closet with his remarks at an April 1997 counterterrorism conference sponsored by former Senator Sam Nunn. "Others [terrorists] are engaging even in an eco-type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves... So there are plenty of ingenious minds out there that are at work finding ways in which they can wreak terror upon other nations...It's real, and that's the reason why we have to intensify our [counterterrorism] efforts." Quoted from DoD News Briefing, Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen, Q&A at the Conference on Terrorism, Weapons of Mass Destruction, and U.S. Strategy, University of Georgia, Athens, Apr. 28, 1997 A handful of national groups now possess these longitudinal EM wave interferometer weapons. And, in a strange quirk, many of these adversaries use West Australia as a test range. In addition, there seem to be even more powerful weapons, believed to be possessed by only three nations, with Brazil being the latest to join the exclusive QP (quantum potential) club. China is believed to be feverishly trying to develop them. For a brief history of scalar EM weaponry see http://www.cseti.org/bearden/analysis/history.htm Saddest of all is the fact that if one is so minded to use the technology for more constructive uses than generating earthquakes, shooting down unarmed Space Shuttles or civilian airliners, one has an instant engine for reversing cancers and the like. Sounds starry-eyed? Check out the history of the Priore machine in France (http://www.cseti.org/bearden/aids/priore.htm.) Funded by the French government in the amount of several million dollars, Priore's machines concretely demonstrated a nearly 100% cure of all kinds of terminal cancers and leukemias, in thousands of rigorous laboratory tests with animals. These results were shown to medical scientists as early as 1960. Then the plug was pulled, and the technology went "deep black" to power France's longitudinal EM wave weapons program. Knowledge of this medical technology is not, of course, limited to France! Think about this the next time you watch a family member dying of cancer and concurrently sing the praises of out of control black programs. That's the price you pay. Incidentally, for the real mechanism involved in cancer development, see http://www.cseti.org/bearden/cancer/cancer.htm Tony Craddock At 09:53 PM 4/28/00 +0930, you wrote: >U.S. Finally to Honor Powers, U2 Spy Plane Pilot > >SACRAMENTO (Reuters) - Francis Gary Powers, the U2 spy plane pilot whose >downing over the Soviet Union in 1960 became a pivotal event of the Cold War, >will be posthumously awarded military honors Monday, exactly 40 years >after his >capture. > >Officials said Powers' family would be taken to an Air Force base north of >Sacramento and presented with the Prisoner-of-War Medal, the Distinguished >Flying Cross and the National Defense Service Medal in recognition of his >service to the country. > >``The Powers family is proud and honored that my father is receiving this >honor >and distinction, even if it has taken 40 years,'' Powers' son Gary Powers, >Jr., >said in an interview. > >See http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000427/ts/people_powers_2.html ------------------------------ End of skunk-works-digest V9 #35 ******************************** To subscribe to skunk-works-digest, send the command: subscribe in the body of a message to "majordomo@netwrx1.com". 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