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SR-71 pilot story
Posted: Thu May 27, 2010 12:01 am
by :FI:Ghost
Hi guys! How's it going? It's been a while.. I got this link from my cousin and I wanted to share with you. It's a nice story from a SR-71 pilot:
http://gizmodo.com/5511236/the-thrill-o ... -blackbird
Re: SR-71 pilot story
Posted: Thu May 27, 2010 8:23 pm
by :FI:Airway
Nice link.
Thanks for sharing !
Re: SR-71 pilot story
Posted: Thu May 27, 2010 8:33 pm
by :FI:Wolfhound
Nice one Ghost, Thanks
Re: SR-71 pilot story
Posted: Fri May 28, 2010 5:13 am
by :FI:Heloego
Good one!
Thanks Sneaky!!!
Re: SR-71 pilot story
Posted: Fri May 28, 2010 4:00 pm
by :FI:Armitage
thats is cool. great video at the end
Re: SR-71 pilot story
Posted: Fri May 28, 2010 4:22 pm
by :FI:Sneaky_Russian
:FI:Heloego wrote:Good one!
Thanks Sneaky!!!
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For what?
I used to live about 6 miles from Wethersfield. One day the house started to shake and I went out back to see the SR-71 taking off on full afterburner and climbing around 60%.
Not only the fastest of it's time but probably the loudest too!
Re: SR-71 pilot story
Posted: Fri May 28, 2010 6:34 pm
by :FI:Heloego
Re: SR-71 pilot story
Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2010 3:45 am
by :FI:WillieOFS
:FI:Sneaky_Russian wrote::FI:Heloego wrote:Good one!
Thanks Sneaky!!!
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For what?
I used to live about 6 miles from Wethersfield. One day the house started to shake and I went out back to see the SR-71 taking off on full afterburner and climbing around 60%.
Not only the fastest of it's time but probably the loudest too!
That B-1, the joke of an "all weather" bomber that US Air Force uses is the LOUDEST POS I've ever seen or heard. They operate them out of Abilene, TX, which is pretty much wasteland. A year or so back, a couple of them came to NAS Carswell here in Fort Worth and made one "touch and go" apiece. The second one hadn't even gotten back airborne before half of the West side of Fort Worth was ringing the NAS switchboard off the wall. Those damn things set off most of the car alarms and probably half of the burglar alarms on my side of town.
Loud is an understatement for those damn things.
Re: SR-71 pilot story
Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2010 5:24 am
by :FI:Sneaky_Russian
Invisible to radar , but you can hear 'em coming ?
Not much use at +mach I guess.
Re: SR-71 pilot story
Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2010 4:32 am
by :FI:WillieOFS
I don't think that one is invisible to anything.
The SR-71 flew so high and fast it didn't matter back then. LOL
The B-1 was SUPPOSED to be a high speed, low level, ALL weather strategic bomber. They found out the hard way it won't do airframe icing. Seems large chunks of hard water fall off and shred the engines.............
It is great at setting off car alarms and scaring people.
Re: SR-71 pilot story
Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2010 9:33 am
by :FI:Heloego
Just a MUCH more expensive version of the F-111 Raven.
Flying Edsel.