Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!know!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ub!rutgers!att!cbnews!military From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Re: SR-71 Blackbird question Message-ID: <1990Oct8.030611.12275@cbnews.att.com> Date: 8 Oct 90 03:06:11 GMT References: <1990Sep27.031756.7889@cbnews.att.com> <1990Sep29.155328.7880@cbnews.att.com> <1990Oct4.012354.11544@cbnews.att.com> Sender: military-request@att.att.com Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 16 Approved: military@att.att.com From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) >From: Allan Bourdius >...it is a fair possibility that the SR-71's successor might have been >flying since the late '70's or the early '80's--well before the >introduction of the F-117A. Actually, there is some evidence that it followed the F-117A at Lockheed. Lockheed's reported revenue from "black" programs, in its financial statements, has remained more or less constant despite the ending of the F-117A program. The obvious inference is that something else took up the several-hundred-million-a-year slack. -- 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