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From: barney@procyon.usc.edu (Barney Lum)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: SR-71 was RS-71 (Re: F111)
Summary: Skunkworks
Message-ID: <1991Apr9.030135.1750@amd.com>
Date: 5 Apr 91 21:12:27 GMT
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From: barney@procyon.usc.edu (Barney Lum)


In article <1991Mar12.230042.27317@cbnews.att.com> dvlssd@zeus.cs.umu.se (Stefan Skoglund) writes 
>S : Strategic.Usuall in this meaning : Strategic Reconnaisance.
>    SR-71 and and also SB52C I think.

It was actually an RS-71.  When then-president Johnson introduced
it to the public, he erroneously called it "SR-71."  The brass didn't
want to correct our "leader" so the name stuck :] .

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