"Gosh Darn" <stealthman@iglou.com> wrote in message news:kmtt365ip3aok4ksgmmt6kl9r4dbtdj7aq@4ax.com...

On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 23:32:32 -0700 (PDT), "miso@sushi.com"
<miso@sushi.com> wrote:

On Jul 13, 12:17 am, "m...@sushi.com" <m...@sushi.com> wrote:

http://www.lazygranch.com/images/ttr/june2010/ttr_62010.jpg
orhttp://www.lazygranch.com/images/ttr/june2010/ttr_062010_large.jpg

I suggest saving the files and viewing with Irfanview as these files
will probably be too large for your browser.

More to come ...

Part deux:

http://www.lazygranch.com/images/ttr/june2010/black_mountain_radomes.jpg

       That reminds me of the radar station I saw half way up
Mount Charleston in 1963, I just took it for granted it was
one of several around the test site.

       Nellis was fairly active at the time, but the city
was a fraction of the present size.

       I liked to take trips out in the desert, the humidity
was still around one percent at that time.     I went east
on I-15 to the Virgin river and turned right instead of
left, and almost ended up in the Colorado River.
       There didn't seem to be anything on the map
north of I-15.

       But the SR-71 or A-12 did not seem to be a big
secret, in 1964 I went to an open house at Edwards
and they had one model way out from the crowd,
but flew it a couple of times during that day.

Actually, LBJ revealed the existence of the YF-12 interceptor version at the end of Feb 1964. It landed at EAFB the same morning of his news conference. Bob Gilland flew the first flight of the SR-71 in Dec 1964 out of Palmdale. The A-12 stayed under wraps for a few more years.