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Old October 30th 07, 06:53 AM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
Bertie the Bunyip[_19_]
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Big John wrote in
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drone it had
just launched.) No enemy was ever able to touch it.

SecDef Robert McNamara ordered all the SR-71 manufacturing tools
destroyed so he would have more tax dollars to waste on the F-111. In
1994 William Jefferson Clinton used line item veto to cancel all
funding for SR-71s. They are now in museums. The pilots said that we
really need that airplane today for reconnaissance over places like
Iran, Iraq, Syria, Korea:country-region, China, Russia, etc. If it
were not for Clinton, SR-71 would still be performing that
reconnaissance today.



Does he know that Kingfish isn't?


Bertie