[thechat] New York...

William Anderson neuro at well.com
Fri Apr 13 05:37:26 CDT 2001


----- Original Message -----
From: "Ben Dyer" <ben_dyer at imaginuity.com>
To: <thechat at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Friday, April 13, 2001 12:26 AM
Subject: Re: [thechat] New York...


> Stumbled on this:
>
> http://aeroweb.brooklyn.cuny.edu/database/museums/getimage.htm?id=2151
>
> That does look a little weird.  An Air Force plane on a Navy carrier.

woops ... must try and engage memory properly before posting ... I meant
A-12, not Y-12, and clicking on the image confirms that it's a tri-service
A-12.  The BuNo is 60-06925, the ConNo is 122, which makes it the first
production A-12, and owned fully by the USAF.

However ... "tri-service" ... not so out of place perhaps ... :)

- http://www.sr-71.org/blackbird/a-12/

here's some more pics of 06925:

- http://www.sr-71.org/photogallery/blackbird/06925/
- http://www.bestweb.net/~kcoyne/a12tour.htm
- http://www.habu.org/a-12/06925.html
- http://www.csd.uwo.ca/~pettypi/elevon/gustin_military/db/us/A12LOCKH.html

and here's where to find the others on display:

A12       60-06924  PALMDALE, CA, PLANT 42
A12       60-06925  NEW YORK (NY), USS Intrepid
                    http://www.intrepidmuseum.org/
A12       60-06927  LOS ANGELES (CA), MUSEUM
A12       60-06930  HUNTSVILLE (AL)
A12       60-06931  MINNEAPOLIS (MN), Minn. ANG Museum
A12       60-06933  San Diego Aerospace Museum , CA, BALBOA PARK
                    http://www.aerospacemuseum.org/
A12       60-06937  Southern Museum of Flight  Birmingham (AL)
                    http://www.bham.net/flight/museum.html
                    http://www.habu.org/a-12/06937-arrington.html
A12       60-06938  MOBILE (AL), USS ALABAMA
                    http://www.acan.net/recreation/uss_alabama.html
                    http://www.coastcomp.com/av/pres/kistler/606938.htm
A12       60-06940  Seattle (WA), MUSEUM OF FLIGHT
                    http://www.museumofflight.org/
        http://www.museumofflight.org/collections/craftdisplay.html?ID=65

note that the A-12 in Seattle is the sole surviving M-21 variant, which
carried the YF-21 intel gathering drone .

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