From: "John Keeney"
Date: 1/3/2004 10:47 PM Central Standard Time
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"Tarver Engineering" wrote in message
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"Scott Ferrin" wrote in message
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On Sat, 3 Jan 2004 09:57:26 -0800, "Tarver Engineering"
wrote:


"Mary Shafer" wrote in message
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On Fri, 02 Jan 2004 16:27:31 -0800, Hobo wrote:

In article ,
Mary Shafer wrote:

I know that we always worried about the HiMAT (Highly
Maneuverable
Aircraft Technology, a subscale research vehicle capable of 0.9
Mach)
escaping from remote-piloting control and zipping over the San
Gabriels to Pasadena because it's so close. So much so, in fact,
that
we put a backup control into the back seat of an F-104 that we
chased
it with.

Was the F-104 equipped to shoot down the HIMAT, if necessary?

No. It was prepared to control it well enough to get it back close
enough for the regular system to take over.

Bull****, the HiMAT lawn darted on every flight.


http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Gallery/Photo/HiMAT/index.html

Specifically:
http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Gallery/Pho...C79-12055.html
which shows the "HiMAT on lakebed after landing."
Since HMAT isn't attached to the B-52 and the scoot marks across the lake
bed
behind it lead directly to the landing gear we can safely say it didn't
"lawn dart"
on at least one flight.


There you go ruining a perfectly good tarversim with facts. Have you no shame?

Dan, U. S. Air Force, retired