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11-16-2006, 06:00 AM | # 1 Quick Link (permalink) | |||||||||||||
| Hey SKUNKY Came across at March Air Force Base Riverside, Ca in the tail of a SR-71. I see you leave your mark everywhere.  | |||||||||||||
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11-16-2006, 01:05 PM | # 2 Quick Link (permalink) | |||||||||||||
| Re: Hey SKUNKY Yup!.....usually nothing more than a urine stain here and there, but whenever I come across a Blackbird I'm usually inspired to whip out the paint cans... Thanks for sharing that one, LzyBns!...  | |||||||||||||
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11-16-2006, 02:46 PM | # 3 Quick Link (permalink) | |||||||||||||
| Re: Hey SKUNKY You gotta love skunk works. | |||||||||||||
| I can take umbrage, I can take the cake, I can take the A-Train, I can take two and call me in the morning, but I cannot take this sitting down. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to take five. | ||||||||||||||
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11-16-2006, 09:53 PM | # 4 Quick Link (permalink) | |||||||||||||
| Re: Hey SKUNKY The one I saw at the museum on Offutt AFB in Nebraska had cobras on the covers. I wonder what drives the difference in design? Either way, pretty cool. | |||||||||||||
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11-16-2006, 10:33 PM | # 5 Quick Link (permalink) | ||||||||||||||
| Re: Hey SKUNKY
Yup and more...I've been seeing lots of his relatives becoming 'roadkills' as of late in my neck of the woods!   | ||||||||||||||
"Flying is more than a sport and more than a job; Flying is pure passion and desire, which fill a lifetime" Adolf Galland | |||||||||||||||
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11-16-2006, 11:33 PM | # 6 Quick Link (permalink) | ||||||||||||||
| Re: Hey SKUNKY
That's a Habu, a cobra-like snake found in the Ryuku Islands. In the late 60s some SR-71s were based in Okinawa and the natives there thought the SRs resembled the Habu because of the shape of its chines, and so that's what they called them...Of course the Blackbird crewmembers thought that was pretty cool, and subsequently crewmembers themselves came to be known as Habus as well. Don't know what really determined which ones got the Skunkworks logo and which got the Habus and which didn't get any at all.... Incidentally, the Blackbird you saw at Offutt has since been moved to a beautiful new facility between Lincoln and Omaha where it now gets a respectable place of honor just as you enter the doors of the Strategic Air and Space (formerly SAC) Museum....(the covers are gone!)  | ||||||||||||||
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11-16-2006, 11:49 PM | # 7 Quick Link (permalink) | |||||||||||||
| Re: Hey SKUNKY SR-71 in 1/72 please... | |||||||||||||
| Hello, I'm the guy who sits next to you and reads the newspaper over your shoulder. Wait - Don't turn the page, I'm not finished. Life is so uncertain. | ||||||||||||||
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11-17-2006, 12:58 AM | # 8 Quick Link (permalink) | |||||||||||||
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| One sheep to rule them all ... | ||||||||||||||
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11-17-2006, 01:20 AM | # 9 Quick Link (permalink) | |||||||||||||
| Re: Hey SKUNKY March AFB has some really nice jets but most are outside. It's sad to see them fading in the sun including a B-17G, B-24 an a A-26. The sun does take a heavy toll and the piegons too.  | |||||||||||||
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11-17-2006, 01:31 AM | # 10 Quick Link (permalink) | |||||||||||||
| Re: Hey SKUNKY It actually even goes beyond 'sad' and starts bordering on 'criminal'....  | |||||||||||||
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