Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:08:49 -0500
From: "Mike B." <omni at omniphile.com>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Air & Space trip report ...?
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Michael Walsh wrote:

> I remember going an air show at Andrews - there was a Blackbird on
> display.  Thing look like would get a speeding ticket while parked.

Speed does have a 'look' to it, don't it? ;-)

I remember Rich Kolker (past WSFAn and 10 time Chairman of August
Party), telling me about his stint in the Air Force as a PR guy.  He was
at some base in (I think) Alabama and they had an SR-71 operating out of
there for a couple of weeks.  He was given strict orders to "neither
confirm not deny that an SR-71 was operating from the base."  He said it
was the most ridiculous order he ever got and told about getting a phone
call from a local newspaper asking about the SR-71 that was shooting
touch-and-go landings on the runway, and he had to answer, "I can
neither confirm not deny..." <WWWWHHHHHHZZZZOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMM!!!!! of
SR-71 going overhead> "...the rumor that there is an SR-71 operating
from this base."

-- Mike B.