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Re: [OT] Fun space shuttle facts!
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Bill Cadier <[log in to unmask]>
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Bill Cadier <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 22 Jul 2005 10:35:33 -0600
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Denys writes...

> A fun fact, the A-12, M-12, D-21 and SR-71 (all spy or reconnaissance
> aircrafts) were all built primarily of titanium, which had to be acquired
> from... Russia.

Using  phoney companies set up by the CIA I believe.

And wasn't the SR-71 actually supposed to have been the RS-71? The
story I heard was that Lyndon Johnson erroneously referred to it as the
SR-71 and so it was renamed that. Apparently we don't want to let on
that our presidents can actually make mistakes :-)

Bill

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