President Bush is eating in my undisclosed location (UPDATE: Undisclosed location is IRAQ!)

Eyes on ^ | 271830(C)NOV03 | ChiefKujo

[ChiefKujo]

President Bush secretly landed an hour ago and is currently eating Thanksgiving dinner at my undisclosed location. Anticipate a press release after he takes off.

ChiefKujo

[billbears]

You hit the nail on the head. Next time, tell us how you 'really' feel ;)

[JustPiper]

The Soldier Selected to Sit With the President in Iraq Speaks. FR Exclusive The horses mouth | 11-30-03 | Bradley Combs via Bigern

Chief what happened with you? We have TWO Freepers that got the exclusive ;)

[Quicksilver]

In theory you are correct. However, his actions did not endanger anyone, and it's obvious his intent was to wait until it was okay before posting details.

By the way, welcome to FreeRepublic! :) Are you in Iraq? (Your born-on-date says that you're east of the eastern timezone here in the US, assuming that your locale settings are correct.)

[lentulusgracchus]

Okay! ;^D)

"LG"

[TigersEye]

The sky is falling tew.

[FreeAtlanta]

More than likely, ADhgf537 is just a bitter DU'er who has been kicked off 537 times. By your reference to his Dec. 1st, 2003 -eastern time zone -, I see you saw right through him. Good and Quick job, Mr. Silver.

[texasflower]

I need to make an apology. I had intended to send my previous message to someone else. Not to ican'tbelieveit.

I am terribly sorry for making this mistake.

[1smallVoice]

What was Hillary doing this weekend?

Was she home cooking a meal for Bill?

Was Bill home in Chapiqua with Hillary's daughter, Chelcie?

[Tiki_Bar]

I want to know why Icantbelieve it was banned can someone tell me?

It looks like some something went askew.

Icantbelieveit is a longtime poster and a friend of mine,
post your answer here or by freepmail.

[Krodg]

Have you recieved an answer on why she was banned?

[Tiki_Bar]

nope I wonder why, dumping people for no reason isn't cool.

[Jim Robinson]

I have restored ican'tbelieveit's account.
Jim

[ican'tbelieveit]

Thank you for your kind review and the restoration.

[ican'tbelieveit]

Thank you for the apology and I apologize for responding to you so harshly previously.

[Schwaeky]

The SR-71 takes off w/ 8% of total fuel capacity, fueled in air about 150 miles out, then goes into supersonic flight mode, capable of flying at up to 200k feet and to deeply penetrating airspace of a nation w/ a vast frontier such as the Soviet Union, more than twice as high as the U-2 spy plane, once and again the premier reconnnassiance aircraft for the U.S.

There was also research in applying the design to a supersonic strategic bomber, but that never materialized.

[lentulusgracchus]

The SR-71 takes off w/ 8% of total fuel capacity, fueled in air about 150 miles out, then goes into supersonic flight mode, capable of flying at up to 200k feet and to deeply penetrating airspace of a nation w/ a vast frontier such as the Soviet Union, more than twice as high as the U-2 spy plane, once and again the premier reconnnassiance aircraft for the U.S.

When I was "in", back in 1971, I met a chief warrant ET type who'd stood lots of weapons watches as duty officer on the Gun Line in the Gulf of Tonkin. One night he was on watch-officer duty in the CIC of USS Horne, a DLG patrolling on Yankee Station. The radar operator called his attention to a return that looked like a fast mover climbing out of a base on the island of Formosa. The radar operator, with little else to look at elsewhere, clicked the trackball and got a lock -- the target was doing 2400 knots, headed across the Formosa Straits toward China and climbing like a bat out of hell. "Damn", said both men, and my friend said to the radar operator, "Hit it again." This time, 3600 knots and enormous altitude. That was enough to classify the target, right there. The unknown was still accelerating -- my friend estimated that by this time he was doing about 4500 kts and still accelerating, now over China, when suddenly the vox circuit the task group's cruiser was on blared, calling the Horne and commanding "Break lock! Break lock now!" The radar operator's hand was about to descend to hit the bug again, and he looked up at my friend, who smiled and shook his head "no". The target continued on its way westward at unbelievable speed, and my friend and his radar operator had the satisfaction that they'd locked up an SR-71.

Later on I read an article about the CIA's flights over China, collecting material from Chinese nuclear-weapons tests, and the article stated that those flights were east-to-west and typically recovered in Norway after only 20 minutes, and it offered the snippet that the engine nacelles typically glowed bright orange in flight, with operating temperatures so high that liquid metal was used as the lubricant. Something to think about. And we mothballed this aircraft? I grant you the design and many of the airframes were nearly 40 years old, but still. Do you suppose we already had something better?

[dalereed]

"Do you suppose we already had something better?"

What has been named the Aroura I suspect is the replacement.

In the early 80s I had just taken off from Mojave airport and a black dart looking aircraft which looked more like a rocket than an airplane with wings and tail streaked out of Edwards at an amazing speed and climb. It was only probably 10 miles from me when I first saw it and it was completely out of sight within less than 10 seconds.

I had previously seen an SR-71 and this aircraft had no resemblance to it.

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[lepton]

I missed this thread when it happenend. This is so funny in hindsight.