Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!att!cbnews!military From: plains!overby@uunet.UU.NET (Glen Overby) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Re: SR-71 airframes Summary: flyable storage or U-2 Message-ID: <1990Oct8.221014.7595@cbnews.att.com> Date: 8 Oct 90 22:10:14 GMT References: <1990Oct8.030627.12341@cbnews.att.com> Sender: military-request@att.att.com Organization: North Dakota State University, Fargo Lines: 19 Approved: military@att.att.com From: plains!overby@uunet.UU.NET (Glen Overby) In article <1990Oct8.030627.12341@cbnews.att.com> wb9omc@ea.ecn.purdue.edu (Duane P Mantick) writes: >From: wb9omc@ea.ecn.purdue.edu (Duane P Mantick) >>I think it's a little late to begin asking questions about the SR-71 >>since the USAF has sadly put them all in museums or in storage. >Well, don't count them out just *yet*. A group that I participate in I recall that several SR-71s were put into "flyable storage" at the NASA Dryden facility (someone like Mary Schaefer taunted all of us about their flybys). Are they still there? A recent Av. Leak had a article + picure talking about how the U-2 is being used for reconisance in the Persian Gulf theatre. -- Glen Overby uunet!plains!overby (UUCP) overby@plains (Bitnet)