re sr in propoganda films in article apr sequent com bigfoot sequent com gregory smith writes mccall mksol dseg ti com fred j mccall writes in phv jbk access digex net prb access digex com pat writes the sr stopped being a real secret by the mid s i had a friend in high school who had a poster with it s picture it was known well before that i built a model of it sometime in the mid s billed as yf a sr the model was based on yf a specs and had a big radar in the nose and aams in closed bays on the underside of the fuselage the description even then read speeds in excess of mach at altitudes exceeding feet l b j publically announced the existance of the blackbird program in he s also the one who dubbed it the sr it was the rs until lbj mippselled sic it fwiw doug page the opinions are mine maybe and don t necessarily represent those of my employer
