Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!rutgers!att!cbnews!military From: ccastjr@prism.gatech.edu (COOOooOoooooOOOOoOOoOOooKIE!!!!!) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Re: What was the A-11? Keywords: attack planes, designations, gaps Message-ID: <1990Oct15.034201.13818@cbnews.att.com> Date: 15 Oct 90 03:42:01 GMT References: <1990Oct11.050738.28984@cbnews.att.com> Sender: military-request@att.att.com Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology Lines: 22 Approved: military@att.att.com From: ccastjr@prism.gatech.edu (COOOooOoooooOOOOoOOoOOooKIE!!!!!) The A-11 was a CIA spy plane. It's usually called the A-12, because when President Johnson announced it, he called it the A-12. (he also called the RS-71 the SR-71... the airforce decided to change the latter, but not the former). The A-11 was the first (I"m pretty sure) of the Blackbird airframes. Instead of a two seat cockpit, it has a camera in the back position. The SR-71 and YF-12 have a under-body bay that is used for missiles in the YF-12, and electronics and recon equipment in the SR-71. I don't know of these bays were present in the A-11, or what they were used for if they were. Next came the YF-12, and last was SR-71. -- Emporers Thought for the Day: | John E. Rudd jr. Only the insane have the strength to prosper; | ccastjr@prism.gatech.edu Only those who prosper judge what is sane. | (ex- kzin@ucscb.ucsc.edu) #include Send all comments, flames, and complaints to /dev/null.