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As a young USAF Airman Second Class back in the '60s, my first assignment after a year of electronics school was to the 9th Strategic Recon Wing - - the SR-71.

The aircraft was not known as the 'Blackbird' at the time, and I hadn't really heard much about it.

It didn't take long for me to appreciate just what I was working on, the amazing capabilities and the Buch Rogers stuff that we were using. Best duty ever for a USAF Airman.

Fast forward to a few years ago, working as a docent for an aviation museum that had a real live J58.

It fell to me to give presentations on the engine, and of course the aircraft. The truly astonishing engineering triumphs of an engine that could function as both a turbojet and also a ramjet is an underappreciated feat.

I'll watch the vid, and I'm sure that I'll learn even more about the incredible J58.

9 posted on 09/20/2022 8:44:25 PM PDT by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never...in nothing, great or small...Winston Churchill)

That’s awesome !!! I would have been pissing on myself if I had the opportunity to work on something like that...

And Thank You for Your Service !!!

13 posted on 09/20/2022 9:32:48 PM PDT by mabarker1 ( (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress !7)

Airman Second Class, that goes a long way back!

25 posted on 09/21/2022 5:33:54 AM PDT by ops33 (SMSgt, USAF, Retired)

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