jfb@ihlpm.att.com (Joseph F Baugher) (10/05/90)
From: jfb@ihlpm.att.com (Joseph F Baugher) The discussion on the current disposition of the SR-71 Blackbirds got me to wondering: what happened to the A-12 single-seat spyplanes that preceded the SR-71? I think that there were 21 of them built. I don't think that any A-12s were ever shown in public, nor were any ever given to museums so far as I am aware. Did they all get written off in crashes? Did the survivors get put in storage? Or can we conclude that some are indeed still flying? Joe Baugher ************************************** AT&T Bell Laboratories * "Badges??? We don't need no * 200 Park Plaza * stinking badges!" * Naperville, Illinois 60566-7050 ************************************** (708) 713 4548 ihlpm!jfb jfb200@cbnewsd.att.com Who, me? Speak for AT&T? Surely you jest!
henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) (10/08/90)
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) >From: jfb@ihlpm.att.com (Joseph F Baugher) >... what happened to the A-12 single-seat spyplanes that preceded >the SR-71? ... The survivors have been seen at one of the storage depots in the Southwest (Davis-Monthan? not sure), mothballed but perhaps still flyable. They were retired due to a political decision that actually operating strategic reconnaissance hardware was the USAF's job. -- Imagine life with OS/360 the standard | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology operating system. Now think about X. | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry
roberts@uunet.UU.NET (Robert Stanley) (10/10/90)
From: mitel!sce!cognos!roberts@uunet.UU.NET (Robert Stanley) In article <1990Oct8.030649.12453@cbnews.att.com> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes: >The survivors have been seen at one of the storage depots in the Southwest >(Davis-Monthan? not sure), mothballed but perhaps still flyable. They were >retired due to a political decision that actually operating strategic >reconnaissance hardware was the USAF's job. Which makes the recent decision to retire the SR-71 more than a little ironic. The USAF requested that the operating costs (some $210M/year) be deleted from their budget on the grounds that they were unable to justify the cost of information gathering for their own needs. It appears that the people who really wanted/used the information gathered by SR-71 missions were not the ones having the appropriation show up in their annual budgets... -- Robert Stanley UUCP: uunet!mitel!cunews!cognos!roberts | 3755 Riverside Drive Cognos, Inc. INET: roberts%cognos.uucp@uunet.uu.net | PO Box 9707, Ottawa (Research) Alice: (613) 738-1338 x6115 (EST/EDT) | Ont K1G 3Z4, Canada [Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most.]
34X3TAN%CMUVM.BITNET@VM1.gatech.edu (10/11/90)
From: <34X3TAN%CMUVM.BITNET@VM1.gatech.edu>
According to what I have read in AEROFAX the fleet of A-12's are
currently stored at the skunkworks at either Palmingdale or Pasidenia,
also of interest is the D-21 ramjet drones stored at the MASDEC
Jeff Kavanaugh
CMUVM-34x3tan
boneyards.