News - U.S. Air Force considers pilotless U-2

Paul A. Suhler wrote:


Actually, FISH was a single unit. The two-stage parasite was the original
Super Hustler bombing/recon variant. It had no requirement to be stealthy.
Here is FISH:

http://www.testpilot.ru/usa/convair/b/58/fish/fish.htm

And here's Super Hustler:

http://www.testpilot.ru/usa/convair/...uper/super.htm



You got me on that one...did you ever see an illustration of the
Goodyear inflatable rubber ramjet that was suppose to go up under the
giant balloon? I'd love to see that one.

Pat

On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 02:12:15 -0500, Pat Flannery
wrote:

Actually, FISH was a single unit.

You got me on that one..

....Congrats, Paul. You win an "I Corrected Pat" Army Surplus ProKit!

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Kelly Johnson had some crude sketches in his notebook and I've seen an
isometric drawing done forty years later. You might almost mistake it
for a D-21 until you see that the fuselage diameter is 15 ft.

Pat Flannery wrote:
You got me on that one...did you ever see an illustration of the
Goodyear inflatable rubber ramjet that was suppose to go up under the
giant balloon? I'd love to see that one.

Pat

Pat Flannery writes:



Henry Spencer wrote:

As I understand it, probably a good part of this was a paperwork screwup:
the money for SR-71 operations was coming out of the USAF budget, but the
USAF wasn't a major user of the data. There is a separate pot of money
for operations of "national asset" intelligence-gathering systems, but
past attempts to switch the SR-71 to funding from there had failed for
various trivial reasons.


It was also supposed to be very maintenance intensive, and required
dedicated tanker aircraft to carry its special jet fuel around, so that
operating it ate up a lot of money

A friend was slightly involved in the beancounting of same and when
I told him that NASA was flying same, he was agog....

Do you have ANY idea how much money it took to
run that program?

he commented

Mary pointed out it cost NASA a lot less to run one more weird bird
than it did for USAF to deploy to wherever and run a squadron of
same..
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David Lesher writes:

A friend was slightly involved in the beancounting of same and when
I told him that NASA was flying same, he was agog....

Do you have ANY idea how much money it took to run that
program?

he commented

Mary pointed out it cost NASA a lot less to run one more weird bird
than it did for USAF to deploy to wherever and run a squadron of
same..

3 at the peak. The biggest saving would be that it is all from
Edwards, and if one HAD to go somewhere else you could go an get it
later. Having an operative 71 `drop in' without pre planning would be
at least very embarasing. So all those possibilities had to be factored
in and planned for.

Maintainance of them was also a right pain at every level.

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