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To: texson66
I believe the SR-71 used to launch supersonic RPVs.

There were some test flights, but the drones weren't very reliable. I believe two were destroyed in crashes, and the rest are mothballed at Davis-Monthan.

198 posted on 01/14/2006 12:14:26 PM PST by ReignOfError
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To: ReignOfError

http://www.me.mtu.edu/~slpost/nasa/

Photo's from Dryden of many of the vehicles in this thread: Be careful of your search spec in Google: several of the photo's of the SR-71/Y-12 drones on other sites were listed as D-12 (and M-12) - rather than the M/D-21 that should be used.


200 posted on 01/14/2006 4:05:24 PM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but Hillary's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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