Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!att!cbnews!military From: dant%mrloog.wr.tek.com@RELAY.CS.NET (Dan Tilque) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Re: New USAF Spy plane? Message-ID: <1990Jun4.193418.3332@cbnews.att.com> Date: 4 Jun 90 19:34:18 GMT References: <1990May29.145207.21418@cbnews.att.com> Sender: military@cbnews.att.com (William B. Thacker) Distribution: na Organization: Upper Left Coast Liberation Army Lines: 21 Approved: military@att.att.com From: Dan Tilque tmarshall01@cc.cut.oz.au writes: > >I was wondering if someone could tell me what SR stands for >(as in SR-71. ) Here's a story I heard from a former U-2 pilot: Originally, the SR-71 was known as the RS-71, with the RS standing for Reconnaissance-Surveillance. At this point only a relatively few people knew of the plane's existence. Then, about 1964, President Johnson gives a speech and refers to the plane as the SR-71. So the Air Force, having caught terminal brownnose-itis, goes through all its documents and changes the name of the plane to SR-71. --- Dan Tilque -- dant@mrloog.WR.TEK.COM