There's a lot more on the program management of the SR-71 and related
topics in Ben Rich's ("Kelly" Johnson's successor as head of Skunk
Works) memoir, "Skunk Works." Little, Brown 1994.


On Nov 17, 1:55 pm, Tina wrote:
The following text is from Brian Shul's Sled Driver, his memoir of
flying the SR-71. It's a great read, and most of us has seen parts of
it before. If and when you read it, I'd appreciate your thoughts about
this. how is it such an airplane had been resticted to recon? Had any
been configured as a first strike weapon? I suppose some may have and
we'd never know.

I'd wonder the same thing about the U2.