Return-path: X-Andrew-Authenticated-as: 7997;andrew.cmu.edu;Ted Anderson Received: from beak.andrew.cmu.edu via trymail for +dist+/afs/andrew.cmu.edu/usr11/tm2b/space/space.dl@andrew.cmu.edu (->+dist+/afs/andrew.cmu.edu/usr11/tm2b/space/space.dl) (->ota+space.digests) ID ; Wed, 7 Feb 90 01:34:24 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: Reply-To: space+@Andrew.CMU.EDU From: space-request+@Andrew.CMU.EDU To: space+@Andrew.CMU.EDU Date: Wed, 7 Feb 90 01:34:04 -0500 (EST) Subject: SPACE Digest V11 #15 SPACE Digest Volume 11 : Issue 15 Today's Topics: Re: metric vs. imperial units Back log request Re: SR-71 BLACKBIRD ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 5 Feb 90 16:26:45 GMT From: philmtl!philabs!phri!roy@uunet.uu.net (Roy Smith) Subject: Re: metric vs. imperial units > the most metric nations still use feet and knots in the air. France, even. I remember reading somewhere that the USSR they report altitudes in meters. What happened during the Apolo/Soyuz joint missions? Presumably the two sets of mission controllers had to agree on one or another set of units, not to mention the folks who built the docking adaptor? -- Roy Smith, Public Health Research Institute 455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016 roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu -OR- {att,philabs,cmcl2,rutgers,hombre}!phri!roy "My karma ran over my dogma" ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 06 Feb 90 08:14:51 EST From: Morven Wilson Subject: Back log request I'd appreciate very much getting the "back log" you refer to in your memo of 90-Jan-31 - no hurry needed - just at your convenience. I'd also like to add my thanks to you for ALL the effort you put into this Digest ... I'm continually astonished at how you find the time to keep it going. Great effort, and thank you on behalf of all of us. ------------------------------ Date: 6 Feb 90 19:00:13 GMT From: concertina!fiddler@sun.com (Steve Hix) Subject: Re: SR-71 BLACKBIRD In article <2112@syma.sussex.ac.uk>, nickw@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Nick Watkins) writes: > In article <5573@hplabsb.HP.COM> dsmith@hplabsb.UUCP (David Smith) writes: > >In article <1990Jan25.095555.7062@agate.berkeley.edu> gwh@ocf.Berkeley.EDU (George William Herbert) writes: > > >Hmmm, maybe we should hire the USAF to build copies of the F-1. > > The what? F-1 was (US) designation for the SS9 Scarp ICBM as a launcher. > Very roughly equivalent to Titan II (Martin would probably rebuild them if > you paid them enough ...:-) ) > > G-1 (US) or N1 (USSR) = old moon rocket. Was this the one you meant ? Confusion runs rampant... The F-1 in question was the big engine used in the Saturn V launcher. ------------ "...Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear and certain, must be exceedingly simple-minded..." Plato, _Phaedrus_ ------------------------------ End of SPACE Digest V11 #15 *******************