"John A. Weeks III" <john@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:john-EA7AC3.00541529022008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> In article <nMMxj.7819$Mw.4736@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> "M.Butzin" <mfbutzin@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> > Go to the following site to see satelite views of blackbirds. Some
are
>> > in
>> > hangers and cannot be seen.
>>
>> Aircraft that are in hangers are in use or being prepped for use, you
>> <would> know that if you were in the Air Force. But they don't teach
that
>> at
>> Radio Shack management school do they? There are SR-71's in Guam and
some
>> have been used over Afghanistan right after 911. The CIA has the funds
to
>> fly whatever it wants to when ever it needs to, even "retired" ones.
>
> How exactly does the CIA fly a de-milled SR-71 that is sitting in a
> museum with a cut main spar and no engines? Not to mention that the
> Blackbird takes a special kind of fuel with has to be manufactured
> in a special refinery run. If someone placed an order for JP-7,
> then you might be onto something. You also need dedicated tankers
> to sup****t SR-71 operations. If you can point out which tankers are
> in the air carrying JP-7, then maybe your story might be possible.
> In the mean time, no JP-7, and no tankers carrying JP-7, then you
> have no SR-71 flights.
>
> -john-
>
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Who says JP-7 isn't being manufactured outside the USA? The air tanker has
a
"Q" designate for SR-71 use, your looking at equipment in the states. No
one
said anything about decommissioning tankers that could service SR's.
Russian
JP 54 is the same as JP-7, we bought the skin (Titanium) from Russia, now
the fuel it goes through third "parties" just as AK-47's do. Their copy of
the SST Concorde uses the same fuel. I can tell you that in from 1972 to
1974 when I was stationed a Eglin AFB there were 30 SR-71's there. Turkey
had a few 3~4 Japan had 3~4 so did Guam and three in Alaska for northern
Russia missions. The numbers don't add up for the actual stock amount
produced. There are some still in prime shape ready to fly, like the B-52.
The U-2's were turned loose because they "could" be shot down. One was
flown for Desert Storm then quickly hushed up.
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