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From: sysmgr@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU (Doug Mohney)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Hubble Space Telescope goes Recon
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Date: 29 Apr 91 17:16:01 GMT
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From: sysmgr@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU (Doug Mohney)


wb9omc@ee.ecn.purdue.edu (Duane P Mantick) writes:
>	As an example of the military making sure the private sector
>is a bit behind, NASA once requested an SR71 from the USAF for high
>speed flight research.  USAF gave them #951 and "demilitarized" it,
>whatever that means.....  

NASA isn't the private sector, it's a part of the government. It would be very
difficult to "cripple" an SR-71 of its speed without altering the characters of
it so much as to make it a hazard to fly. 

Besides, there have been cases of NASA folks getting sworn to secrecy and then
going to see what the AF does. The folks at NASA *know* the max speed & limits
of the SR, but since we do not have a True Need to Know...

SYSMGR@CADLAB.ENG.UMD.EDU