Category: SR71 Tales

We drove across the US in about a week to Marysville, California. A local Motel was our home for a … Read the rest

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We arrived on Okinawa around Christmas 1985 the AIL crew consisted of Ron Badamo, John Giannese, George Adamo and myself.  … Read the rest

Jan I did have the opportunity to take several short trips off Okinawa, two to Taipei and one to Hong … Read the rest

The honeymoon was over, Jan and I had seen the elephant!
We arrived back in California in early February 1990 … Read the rest

I was recently encouraged to relate some history of the 1912 program by Bert Fowler. I think this is a … Read the rest

My first trip to Okinawa was to assist solving a problem of excessive noise in one of the receivers that … Read the rest

This photo of the ‘Final Few’.

DET1 Final Group

This is a photo of the AIL crew on Okinawa when … Read the rest

The 1912 program afforded me quite a few opportunities for travel to brief the EMR, its capabilities and SR71 ELINT … Read the rest

Sometime during the 1970s the AIL EMR ELINT system was to be replaced with the EIP (ELINT Improvement Program).  This … Read the rest