Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!rutgers!att!cbnews!military From: brooksp@hpcc01.corp.hp.com (Peter Brooks) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Re: SR-71 airframes Message-ID: <1990Oct15.034446.14552@cbnews.att.com> Date: 15 Oct 90 03:44:46 GMT Sender: military-request@att.att.com Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 13 Approved: military@att.att.com From: Peter Brooks Re the U-2 flying out of Northern California. NASA at Ames Labs has flown a U-2 for several years. They use it for various high altitude astronomy studies, including some microwave studies that looked for the background radiation of the universe. Sorry, no military applications. NASA Ames is in Mountain View, just NW of San Jose, and is adjacent to Moffet NAS. BTW, the U-2 engine is incredibly loud. You can hear it for miles when it is warming up if the atmospheric conditions are right. Pete Brooks pb@hpocia.hp.com