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Here's something I didn't know - in discussions yesterday with my old academy chums from back in Florida, someone said that one of our USAF ROTC instructors was a former SR-71 pilot Lt.Col Harry Platt. I've done some checking, and it seems that maybe he wasn't actually with the SR-71 program, but on the Apollo ARIA program instead. I'd not even known about it, but apparently it was a test program which was developed for mobile tracking of spacecraft of the Apollo program, and later. And yes, I did know Lt.Col Platt. Quiet man, and never really talked about his service days. Which for me now, is a real pity.
http://honeysucklecreek.net/other_stations/ARIA/ARIA_stories.html
http://www.angelfire.com/ma3/spacepatch/ARIA.html