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From: roberts@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (Timothy Roberts)
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Subject: Re: Blackbirds Fly The Coup
Summary: Relation to Space Shuttle
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Date: 8 Mar 89 19:01:53 GMT
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In article <22525@ames.arc.nasa.gov> yee@trident.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee) writes:
>
>Has anyone managed to tie the subject of this discussion to anything to do
>with space shuttles (guess we should include the Soviet shuttles in the
>discussion now, right?) :-).  

	The Sr-71 has characteristics of extreme velocity, heat shielding,  
special ground support, extreme altitude, and it makes me hard.  It - as well
as the other lifting body aircraft - is so closely related to the shuttle that
I am not surprised it appeared in this catagory.  
	For My next trick I will prove both the shuttle and the SR-71 are off-
shoots of the aeronautics industy and hold more in common than the shuttle and
a Saturn V.  I recall reading in a NASA bulletin that pilots of the X-15, Sr-71,
and other lifting body craft were considered astronauts because of the intense
environments and training they were subjected to.
	Okay, these arguments are weak.  Peter's right, let's move this topic
to rec.aviation.
      						Love and Kisses,
						Timothy P. P. Roberts
						roberts@csd4.milw.wisc.edu
.