From: Dave Ball (vought@msn.com)
Date: Sun Feb 02 2003 - 17:24:59 PST
I heard from my Dad that the YF-12 program and its drone were cancelled and
the information learned was turned into the SR-71 project with the gattling
gun removed. The YF-12 was faster than its own bullets and shot itself down
once or twice (The engines ingested 20mm shells).
Dave
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From: "william f cox" <grntrks@juno.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 02, 2003 2:31 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] Columbia and escape modules... and SR71 stats the fastest
conventional flight MV
> I was active duty Air Force during development of the YF12. It was
> designed to be a one-way interceptor for incoming ICBM missles and is
> still the only aircraft I'm aware of that can do this. It was to
> intercept the missle and shoot it down during re-entry into the
> atmosphere as it approached targetted area.
>
> Frank
>
> On Sun, 2 Feb 2003 13:27:17 -0500 myrddin7@juno.com writes:
> > there were two other deignation aircraft on the sr-71 airframe,the
> > yf-12
> > and another i have forgotten the designation.does anyone have any
> > info as
> > to what they were up to all these years?some years back( over 30 )
> > popular mechanics ran somrthing about them,and the other planes
> > were
> > mentioned but were called too highly classified to talk about.mike
> > power
> >
> >
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>
> Frank Cox (grntrks@juno.com)
> MVPA 14530
> '45 GMC 353 DUKW
> '66 Kaiser-Jeep M35A2 w/w
> '68 M105A1 trailer
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