From: dpage@ra.csc.ti.com (Doug Page)
Subject: Re: Sr-71 in propoganda films?
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In article <1993Apr5.220610.1532@sequent.com>, bigfoot@sequent.com (Gregory Smith) writes:
|> mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) writes:
|> 
|> >In <1phv98$jbk@access.digex.net> prb@access.digex.com (Pat) writes:
|> 
|> 
|> >>THe SR-71 stopped being a real secret by the mid 70's.
|> >>I had a friend in high school who had a poster with it's picture.
|> 
|> >It was known well before that.  I built a model of it sometime in the
|> >mid 60's, billed as YF-12A/SR-71.  The model was based on YF-12A specs
|> >and had a big radar in the nose and 8 AAMs in closed bays on the
|> >underside of the fuselage.  The description, even then, read "speeds
|> >in excess of Mach 3 at altitudes exceeding 80,000 feet."
|> 
|> L.B.J. publically announced the existance of the Blackbird program
|> in 1964.


He's also the one who dubbed it the SR-71 - it was the RS-71 until LBJ
mippselled (sic) it.

FWIW,

Doug Page

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