From: skunk-works-digest-owner@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu To: skunk-works-digest@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu Subject: Skunk Works Digest V2 #15 Reply-To: skunk-works-digest@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu Errors-To: skunk-works-digest-owner@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu Precedence: bulk Skunk Works Digest Thursday, 26 November 1992 Volume 02 : Number 015 In this issue: SR-71 manual FX-R?? 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: beede@SCTC.COM (Mike Beede) Date: Wed, 25 Nov 92 08:11:51 CST Subject: SR-71 manual Date: Tue, 24 Nov 92 10:47:53 PST From: Randy Gobbel Reply-To: gobbel@cogsci.ucsd.edu Sender: skunk-works-owner@ecn.purdue.edu Precedence: bulk A couple of days ago at the Point Loma Bookstar in San Diego, I saw a copy of the "SR-71 Pilot's Manual" on sale for ~$100. I looked through it (of course :-)) and if it's not real, it sure is a good fake. Complete with instrument panel layouts, normal and emergency procedures, performance charts, etc., etc., etc. Does anybody out there have any info about this thing, like how it is that it's being published like this? The only info I have on it is that I have one and a big strain it was on the old wedded bliss, too. Pretty interesting . . . . I was kind of suprised that all operations are usually conducted at the same indicated airspeed (though I'd have to go upstairs to see what it was). There are some notes on it from a few months ago, if there is an archive site for this list anywhere. I just looked at a book called something like ``Soviet X Planes'' from Motorbooks. It has some of the usual signs of rapid preparation (e.g., repeated photo captions). However. It claims to have the first post-Glastnost-poop on a number of Soviet programs, and I sure never saw some of the photos and things. Some real weirdies from pre-WWII to the 1980's and including things that _must've_ been published before (like the turbojet Buran). I was interested a few months ago to learn that there was a B-1ski to go with the B-29ski (Tu-4 for the purists). I was suprised to find in this book some pictures of a B-70ski. The planform was similar, there were four engines instead of six, a droop snoot (the king of all droop snoots--with a ``locomotive-style windscreen'' behind it that has to be seen to be believed) and an inlet setup that looks identical to the B-70's to this untutored eye. The text indicates it's unlikely this was a response to the B-70 since it was built much later. They propose it was a response to the SR-71. I highly recommend the book. It even is on the charter of the list, since it shows historical competitors to still-operating (barely, anyway) U.S. systems. If people want the ISBN, I'll dig it up. Mike ------------------------------ From: John Erling Blad Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1992 23:26:38 +0100 Subject: FX-R?? Has anyone some info about FX-R?? John Erling Blad Small is pretty. ------------------------------ End of Skunk Works Digest V2 #15 ******************************** To subscribe to skunk-works-digest, send the command: subscribe skunk-works-digest in the body of a message to "listserv@harbor.ecn.purdue.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 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 harbor.ecn.purdue.edu, in /pub/skunk-works/digest/vNN.nMMM (where "NN" is the volume number, and "MMM" is the issue number).