RE:

["Fry, Larry" <LEF@chem-tronics.com>]

Yeah, that's the legend, although I didn't hear it until years after I got
out. It was officially known as the SR by the time it went operational.   

Larry  sandiego16V

-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin Collins [mailto:kcollins1@socal.rr.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 8:07 PM
To: Fry, Larry; Scirocco List
Subject: Re:


"Fry, Larry" wrote:
 
> US Air Force, 9th Field Maintenance Squadron, four years working on the
> SR-71.  

Hey Larry - is it true that the original name of the SR-71 was RS-71, but
at its introduction, by then-vice president Dick Nixon, tricky Dick got it
twisted around - after which they simply decided to rename it??

--
Kevin Collins
Huntington Beach, CA
'86.5 16V 2.0
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