http://www.afarmamentmuseum.com/sr71blackbird.htmlI have been able to see a SR71 once. Not up close but at a military base in cali.
There’s one parked in front of Space Camp in Al. You can reach up and touch it. It’s beautiful.
I saw one up close at the Pima air museum. There’s a few out there to go see close now. I saw one at a distance at an air show at Carswell AFB around 1970.
They made a big show of keeping it in a hanger 100 yards or so away with the doors open. Air police all around it with AR-15’s.
But I’ve still never seen a U-2.
Very cool.
There is an A-12 (an SR-71 variant) outside of the NASA Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, where you can get quite close to it.
I see one all the time....................
http://www.afarmamentmuseum.com/sr71blackbird.html Great place to go.
Saw many of the planes, of the models I had built as a kid.
Now I need to make it out to the Air Force museum and see the B-70
When I was in the Air Force at Offutt we had an Air Show and one showed up.
We saw it take off the next day. After it rotated and lifted it’s wheels, it accelerated horizontally at about 200-300 feet until it got just past the end of the runway. Then it went vertical until it disappeared.
I saw one this summer at the USS Alabama memorial. Reached up and touched it. Way cool.
The Boeing Museum of Flight has a nice A-12 complete with its drone mounted on top. Look it up at their website.
There is an SR-71 at the Udvar Havy/Smithsonian museum in Virginia.
I almost got to touch it.
It was a big day. I almost had heart palpitations I was so excited.
I DID caress a Concorde that day, for a brief moment.
I saw them all the time at Kadena.
You can pat them on the nose is selected museums. They are so wonderfully pretty.