SR-71

Bob added these comments in the current discussion du jour ...

That aircraft was ‘Article 784’, the fifth full-scale
development F-117A, and it was destroyed at the US Air Force’s
Plant 42 site in Palmdale, Calif after being stripped of all
useableand secret items..

All the remaining operational Blackjets were retired to
Tonopah. (other than the 4 now in museums)

My conspiracy theory de jour is that at least a couple of them
now speak with an accent and wear six-pointed blue stars...

Seems like it'd be awfully hard to fly one of them from Israel to,
say, Iran, and not have everybody know about it. If the United
States were still flying them, at least we cotrol one of the
biggest groups 0f spy satellites but the Israeli's don't and also
would engender hoards of media crawling all over them that don't
especially like the Jewish homeland. Not saying this is entirely
far-fetched but if there is any truth to it, I would also think
that the U.S. would have to send a team over there to help maintain
the very expensive planes as well as either train the Israeli
pilots or covertly fly the planes for them.

--
HP, aka Jerry

"Don't say 'can't' when you really mean 'won't'"