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From:	Joe Block <JPB1@******.COM>
Subject:	SR-71
Date:	Mon, 19 Jul 1993 21:44:12 -0400

Message no. 1 A little aside on the SR-71 - I remember seeing a clip in a documentary once
where they said that (as of 1989) the SR-71 had been attacked by the Soviets
over one thousand times with no successes. Supposedly, one of the Soviet
ground to air missiles was specifically designed for the Blackbird, and
still no kills.

I saw one do an overflight at an airshow at Homestead AFB a couple of years
back - beautiful plane.

Joe

"Lock up your libraries if you like, but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt
that you can set upon the freedom of my mind."---Virginia Woolf

From:	Tim Huie <SPEEDBMP@*******.BITNET>
Subject:	SR-71
Date:	Tue, 20 Jul 1993 19:25:46 +0200

Message no. 2 Flare,
Alas the black bird has been done for at least two years and will not be reac
tivated any time soon. Pity that. But emember the Black Bird was built in the g
ood old days of the mid-sixties. most of its tech is twenty years old, not bad
od malfuntionong mind you. If I remamber right it was killed some time in the B
ush presidency in favor of more spy sats and such.

Speedbmp

P.S. The CIA dosn't use little tiny bugs, that is the perview of the NSA. Boy a
re they pissed about the leek on thhis one, HOOO BOY.

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