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From: macs%worke@Sun.COM (Manuel Cisneros)
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Subject: Re: SR71 to be retired October 1st, rumors regarding SR-71
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Date: 17 Mar 89 17:11:44 GMT
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In article <1596@csd4.milw.wisc.edu> roberts@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (Timothy P. P. Roberts) writes:
>I do Not and will never reveal information to public access that (while hurting
>SDI) would reveal secrets or just little known facts that any fool could tell 
>were damaging to U.S. Security.

I don't think anyone who was originally given the clearance to work
intimately with anything of this nature is going to be dumb/fool enough
to give away really important stuff.  The Blackbird is by todays standards/
technologies not on the cutting edge anymore even thou it is still the
hottest thing around (that we know of) and has been so documented, photographed,
analyzed, and in general talked about that I don' think that there are too
many things left about it that would really cause any problems if they
were known, although I'm sure somebody will contradict me on this.

So far everything that has been posted I've read in one of several books
on the Blackbird, have heard/deduced from news reports on Stealth
aircraft, or found on the instructions to my 1/48 model of the SR-71.
Some of the explanations/'facts' I am not entirely convinced are correct,
while some others I am pretty sure are way off, but its fun reading all this
and I hope it doesn't stop.

Manuel.