European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 6, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday december 6, 1992 the stars and stripes a Page 9af Reserve fighter group joins provide Comfort ii by the stars and stripes Luke fab Ariz. A the air Force reserves 944th fighter group is the first Reserve component to participate with the coalition forces in support of provide Comfort ii. The fighter group is sending f-16c aircraft and about 100 aircrew maintenance and support personnel to join the coalition to help maintain control of airspace Over Northern Iraq. The coalition task Force includes members from the United states the United kingdom France and Turkey. It has maintained the no Fly zone Over Northern Iraq since april 1991.mps vie for top honors bad Kreuz Nach Germany a the 501st my co 1st army div will represent . Army Europe and 7th army in 1992�?Ts Brig. Gen. Jeremiah p. Holland Competition. The company Wen the Competition last year. This is the second time the unit has been nominated to represent the army in Europe at the department of the army level. The award is presented each year to the outstanding military police unit company size or smaller based on the units accomplishments. A Board of officers will meet in Washington and examine information about the competing military police units to determine the  sales in Germany Hanau Germany a defense re utilization and marketing office officials have announced sales this week in Germany. At Aschaffenbur nil Kheim household furniture will be sold tuesday and thursday in the warehouse on Schuppner Strasse. Both sales will be open for id card holders from 9 to 10 . And to the Public from 10 . To noon. Purchases must be made in Cash dollars Only. All purchases must be removed by noon the Day of the Sale. For More information Call Dan 322-8281 or civilian 06181-55614. Report says secret plane capable of Mach 8 Speed los Angeles up a Lockheed corp. Has built a secret spy plane capable of cruising As fast As eight times the Speed of sound a representative of a British defense Trade publication said Friday. The wedge shaped plane dubbed Aurora and carrying a Price tag of $1 billion May have been flying since 1985 and May be the source of a series of earthquake like rumbles that have been occurring for More than a year in California according to an article due to be released next week in Jane a defence weekly. The article written by Bill Swetman Calls its findings a a tentative  Richard Stadler a spokesman at Lockheed a aeronautical systems unit in Southern California declined comment on the article and said he could neither confirm nor deny the existence of the plane. Mark Lambert editor of Jane a said that the article is based in part on an interview with an Oil worker who while a member of the British Volunteer aircraft spotter organization Royal observer corps claimed he saw a strange triangular shape Fly Over a Remote part of the North sea three years ago escorted by a . Kc-135 Tanker and two . Full bombers. Lambert said the worker Chris Gibson later saw a rendering of the Aurora in a Magazine and recognized it As the one he saw three years ago. A there is a whole lot of contributory evidence to suggest its existence a Lambert said. Lambert said Lockheed a advanced development co., nicknamed the Skunk works and located in Palmdale adjacent to Edwards fab in the Mojave desert is the most Likely prime contractor of the Aurora. The unit developed the last two . Spy planes the u-2 and the sr-71 Blackbird along with the f-117a, a first generation stealth fighter used in the persian Gulf War. All three planes flew secretly before Lockheed acknowledged their existence. In the Case of the u-2, its existence became known in 1960 Only when the soviets shot Down one piloted by Francis Gary Powers. The United states retired its last sr-71, nicknamed than it a whole lot of contributory Avi Danca to augg Aat Ita axia Tanca. A Mirk Lambert editor of Jane a defense weekly the Blackbird in 1990 and said at the time that it would rely on satellites for reconnaissance instead. The sr-71 holds the official Speed record of 2,193 Miles per hour or 3.3 times the Speed of sound but that would be less than half than the estimated Speed of Mach 8, or 5,280 Miles per hour for the Aurora. The Jane a article which was reported in fridays Wall Street journal said that supersonic aircraft have capabilities lacking in orbiting satellites which May need up to 24 hours to produce the image of a requested site. An aircraft with Mach 8 capabilities can reach any Point on the Globe in less than three hours and Fly closer to the target than a satellite it noted. Aerospace experts quoted in the article also said that such a plane could be powered by liquid methane. The article said Rockwell International  rocket Dyne division with Headquarters in the Santa Susana mountains North of los Angeles is the Likely builder of the auroras engines. Lockheed and Rockwell worked together on a losing bid to build the plane that eventually became Northrop  Bat shaped b-2 stealth bomber. Rockwell has admitted it performs work on classified aerospace programs but has declined further comment. The article noted that the name a a Aurora first appeared in 1984 As a defense budget line item next to the sr-71. On several occasions Over the past year California residents have reported feeling what seemed to be Small earthquakes but representatives of the . Geological Survey have said in response no earthquake was responsible and that a supersonic aircraft was the Likely  commissary to open dec. 21 in chevres by Rosemary Sawyer Brussels Bureau a new commissary building at chevres a. Belgium is scheduled to open four Days before Christmas. The planned opening will make a Welcome Holiday gift for commissary patrons who have shopped in the draft tent and quonset hut that have served As a temporary store since May. It also fulfils engineers dreams for a speedy completion of the project. As an added treat the dec. 21 opening Date Falls on a monday a Day the commissary normally closes. The store replaces the bases commissary which had been housed in a 1950s-Era hangar. It was evacuated in late april when engineers deemed the building structurally unsafe. Work on the new facility began sept. 29, and army engineers had said weather conditions and other factors could influence whether the sales portion of the store could be opened before january. Behind the scenes sections such As meat cutting and storage areas will be finished several months later. Until then workers will continue using temporary facilities. Commissary officials expect to move into the new building without interrupt ing commissary service said Denise Gomes spokeswoman for the defense commissary Agency a european Region. The store also will have 50 percent More sales space than the old facility which makes it about the same size As stores at Ramstein and Pitburg air bases and in Frankfurt Germany. A ceremony and special sales will Murk the opening but details were not  and Apple need pet toys for Christmas dear Santa merry Christmas. Please give chewy some Guinea pig toys. Give Apple some Bones and dog toys. Make sure you give me and Tara some mail. Give me and Tara some toys because we be been Good. Santa Claus you re real Nice. Mommy wants me and Tara to quit arguing for one Day. Daddy wants a leather coat. I Hope we All have a merry Christmas. . You have a merry Christmas too. Love your Friend Tara and Adam dear Santa i just want 2 toys this year. I want this toy very much. Please get Rne this toy it is a game boy game called Home alone and a game gear with a game called spider Man. That is All i want. Thank you. I would Lille to meet you. Your pal Richard dear Santa i know you worked hard on my doll House last year but i would like a bigger doll House this year because you accidentally gave me the wrong one. Love Ariel dear Santa could you please bring me a pretty Barbie doll maybe you could bring my brother and sister a pretty present too. My mom and dad should get a present too. Maybe we could have Snow for Christmas. Thank you Tiffiny Kroon Tje Butzbach other letters written to Santa include mrs. Sisson s first Grade class Anita Britt Lillian Clervi Erin Cameron Releana Griffith Brandon Robinson Gabriel Gonzales Robert Gill Jamie Lee Tamara Lee Davila Gonzalez Leah Souza James Ferree Katiti casters Bernadette Spears . 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