Test your Mettle

  

Today at 6:04 PM
“TitaniumShanks Redeemed ( email to family)
 Tunnel’s done. Power tools back in racks un-noticed. I’ll have the car at Sea World sewer opening 11 AM Wed when she pops up. DIP”

Wiil be 11 AM Wed I pick her and last of the plants in rehab room. I ran into titanium on a tour of Edwards in spring 1965. Lost 2 engines and failing pneuhydralics using emergency electrics ( pilots  instruments  and  radios) way back from Guam off N Cal coast. Sent us to 12000 ft runway and 5 mile overruns across mtns from Riverside . Parked the Buff and had a day to wait for KC-97 home. Yeager was still CO Test Gp. Let us 6 crew tour hangered
XB 70 Valkyrie; chunks were carved from titanium and see a  titanium skinned  YF 12A take off with a F-104 chase plane left in the dust end of runway as it passed over the CA coast out of sight to 50,0000’+. Both awesome events. We were still busy  SAC day to day  training  monthly  between TDY to Fwd Nuc Alert on Guam. Dropping to below rim of Grand Canyon as result of SAM development we found a bit later in SEA. Turbulance was ripping our wings off and needing emergency fixes. Still the period everything I flew in was already obsolete and soon off to the boneyard but soldiering on in Cold War which we actually won. Not hard to recall the era as back there thanks  to Obam

http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=592

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_YF-12

Checking  who’s in  Reno I found  this bunch.

http://www.yellowpages.com/reno-nv/mip/telesto-nevada-inc-1399617?lid=1399617

I doubt  is  it  but  the  customer list  includes 2 shares  I was  also largest  investor  once, Plum Mining  and  US Gold, 8

http://www.telestonv.com/clientlist.html

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