GentlemanJim Posted February 23, 2009 Share Posted February 23, 2009 Patriots Enjoy! Jim http://www.greatdanepromilitary.com/SR-71/index.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlamoShooter Posted February 23, 2009 Share Posted February 23, 2009 You are rite Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
speculatorking Posted February 23, 2009 Share Posted February 23, 2009 That was awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XRe Posted February 23, 2009 Share Posted February 23, 2009 They have one at the Wright Patterson AFB museum, too... http://bethanddave.smugmug.com/gallery/161...#78508665_zTEQ8 http://bethanddave.smugmug.com/gallery/161...#78508683_u4c2B Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EEH Posted February 23, 2009 Share Posted February 23, 2009 all I can say is DAMMM --and thank YOU--Eddie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
herky Posted February 23, 2009 Share Posted February 23, 2009 There is a B model on display at the Kalamazoo Air Zoo. http://www.airzoo.org/aircraft/sr71-blackbird/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tightloop Posted February 23, 2009 Share Posted February 23, 2009 Wow....makes me proud... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tzygä Posted February 23, 2009 Share Posted February 23, 2009 Really great! I am speechless! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J-Ho Posted February 24, 2009 Share Posted February 24, 2009 I love it. Throttle back near Sicily and still over ran the tanker in Gibralter! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
6-shot Posted February 24, 2009 Share Posted February 24, 2009 That was waaaaay cool. Scott Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bwana Six-Gun Posted February 24, 2009 Share Posted February 24, 2009 That was waaaaay cool. Scott In the early 70's I saw a couple take off out of Kadena on Okinawa. They were kept in an isolated part of the field that I heard was called the Habu Pit. It was incredible!!!!!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
6-shot Posted February 24, 2009 Share Posted February 24, 2009 That was waaaaay cool. Scott In the early 70's I saw a couple take off out of Kadena on Okinawa. They were kept in an isolated part of the field that I heard was called the Habu Pit. It was incredible!!!!!!!!!!!! I've seen a B-52 and a B-1 takeoff ,but an SR-71 would be a whole different experience. Scott Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SA Friday Posted February 24, 2009 Share Posted February 24, 2009 That was waaaaay cool. Scott In the early 70's I saw a couple take off out of Kadena on Okinawa. They were kept in an isolated part of the field that I heard was called the Habu Pit. It was incredible!!!!!!!!!!!! I've seen a B-52 and a B-1 takeoff ,but an SR-71 would be a whole different experience. Scott It's LOUD!!!! Worked the flightline at Mildenhall when we had the SR-71 there. Thing could rattle the teeth out of your head on take off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nwb01 Posted February 24, 2009 Share Posted February 24, 2009 That was a great video! I have been fortunate enough to see the one on display at the Air and Space Museum, what a sight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam B Posted February 24, 2009 Share Posted February 24, 2009 There is a B model on display at the Kalamazoo Air Zoo.http://www.airzoo.org/aircraft/sr71-blackbird/ I am going to have to take the kids there now, that was too cool! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GentlemanJim Posted February 24, 2009 Author Share Posted February 24, 2009 (edited) I got to see them up close at Kadina...What a machine Every now and the one would take off in a hurry with several stages of afterburn They looked like a needle in the sky...and the locals there did call them the Habu. My boss and I used to watch them regular...thats why he sent me the link. I miss those days...and people Jim Edited February 24, 2009 by GentlemanJim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ferrell Spicer Posted February 24, 2009 Share Posted February 24, 2009 It is a truly amazing machine. They are on display all over the place. Here is a link if you want to find one near you. http://www.sr-71.org/blackbird/locations.php Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G-ManBart Posted February 24, 2009 Share Posted February 24, 2009 I had a commander that was a back seater in them for quite some time and then was the base commander at Beale. Many of the facts from Jim's link are exactly the same as the stories he told us. One time I asked him if he'd been shot at by SAM's and he sort of chuckled and said "well, I saw the lights indicating that we'd been shot at plenty of times, but never once did a missile get close enough for us to see it". He said that some of the pilots had been known to slow down to let a missile get closer and then accelerate away as the missile ran out of fuel. One pilot he flew with had a habit of flying straight and level for over 100mi when overflying Red Square, then he'd make a big 180 and leave from the exact direction that they'd come, but added one little annoying thing for the Soviet's.....he'd dump fuel (the fuel dump vent/drain is in the center of the tail cone) for a few seconds and then light the afterburners and leave a flaming streak miles long as they went back over Red Square I do recall he said that each airplane had it's own personality and some were great, some good and one or two really annoying. One was such a hanger queen that the AF told Lockheed to come get it because it was more trouble than it was worth. Hell, they grew something like 18" in length when they got up to normal temperature...yikes! They used to have one on static display at Lackland (might still) and I spent quite a bit of time walking around and just staring....just flipping amazing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
el pres Posted February 24, 2009 Share Posted February 24, 2009 Very cool video !! I think we have one here at Hill AFB museum ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GIO Posted February 24, 2009 Share Posted February 24, 2009 In our country's current situation it is nice to remember a time when we had some balls. It was a comfort growing up under President Reagan and benifiting from projects like this one. Change?...keep it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tzygä Posted February 24, 2009 Share Posted February 24, 2009 I miss those days...and people Jim I can understand why. What a cool job. I am jealous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Keen Posted February 24, 2009 Share Posted February 24, 2009 Nice one Jim. When I was still a teenager (like 25 yrs ago ) I once worked helping setup and tear-down the tents at the Dayton Air Show, and while we were tearing everything down the SR-71 made 3 successive flyovers, each one lower and lower to the ground until finally on the 3rd pass he broke the sound barrier (I guess) because there was a BOOM so loud it actually knocked us down. Now THATS what I call FUN! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G-ManBart Posted February 25, 2009 Share Posted February 25, 2009 In our country's current situation it is nice to remember a time when we had some balls. It was a comfort growing up under President Reagan and benifiting from projects like this one. Change?...keep it Many folks suspect that the reason the SR-71 was retired was that there is something else vastly more capable that has replaced it Putting 2 and 2 and 2 together I got 6 and think that there's something to that theory...I was in the USAF in a unit that required ridiculous clearances (typical time to get them was 18mos) so we sorta got folks with rather "unique" backgrounds. That, plus a few interesting construction projects (read really, really, really long runways in some places) make me a little more than suspicious. There's more, but I think it's all too coincidental to be crazy. R, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anubis Posted February 25, 2009 Share Posted February 25, 2009 Many folks suspect that the reason the SR-71 was retired was that there is something else vastly more capable that has replaced it Satellites Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
herky Posted February 25, 2009 Share Posted February 25, 2009 Satellites, yes, but we had a little trouble getting one in orbit today. Would be nice to have something like the SR71 to fall back on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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