From: Dave Cole (DavidCole@tk7.net)
Date: Mon Feb 03 2003 - 10:38:35 PST
I have a relative that used to fly an SR71 back in the early 80's.. He couldn't tell us what he was doing, however he could say that it could only land in 4 or
5 places in the world and that he was flying for 10+ hours at a time. Didn't take too long to figure out what he was doing. I guess it was quite a ride.
Supposidly nothing else compares to it.
Dave
2/2/2003 11:44:35 PM, william f cox <grntrks@juno.com> wrote:
>In the dim reaches of my memory, I recall an article stating the YF12 (
>or SR71) could fly 150 mph faster than a 30 cal. machine gun bullet.
>
>Frank
>
>
>On Sun, 2 Feb 2003 17:24:59 -0800 "Dave Ball" <vought@msn.com> writes:
>> 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
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> 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)
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