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Early years...SR-71...ever wonder how it got from there to there?
Roadrunners Internationale ^
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| Frank Murray
Posted on 05/04/2013 12:11:07 PM PDT by Doogle
Interesting story of how they transported the Blackbird of Project OXCART, it was known that the A-12s would be built in the SkunkWorks within the Lockheed Plant complex in Burbank, California and that the A-12s would have to be transported overland to Area 51 for flight testing, development and training of the Project Pilots. Photo's and planning story
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Interesting site .......something today's government would hire the Chinese to accomplish....ENJOY
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posted on
05/04/2013 12:11:07 PM PDT
by
Doogle
To: Chode
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posted on
05/04/2013 12:12:02 PM PDT
by
Doogle
(USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
To: Doogle
I was ordered not to look at it one time. Yeah, I looked.
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posted on
05/04/2013 12:14:32 PM PDT
by
chesty_puller
(Viet Nam 1970-71 He who shed blood with me shall forever be my brother. Shak.)
To: Doogle
With Amazon Prime you get free two-day shipping.
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posted on
05/04/2013 12:15:06 PM PDT
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PLMerite
(Shut the Beyotch Down! Burn, baby, burn!)
To: PLMerite
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posted on
05/04/2013 12:17:10 PM PDT
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Doogle
(USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
To: Doogle
I got to watch the pilots suit up (more like astronauts) and perform a night time takeoff, while at Beale. Wicked cool!
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posted on
05/04/2013 12:17:28 PM PDT
by
andyk
(I have sworn...eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.)
To: andyk
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posted on
05/04/2013 12:24:21 PM PDT
by
Doogle
(USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
To: Doogle
The greatest aircraft there ever was. The Aurora might take that honor but I don’t know if it exists or not.
To: Doogle
Very cool, thanks for posting.
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posted on
05/04/2013 12:28:18 PM PDT
by
Sergio
(An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
To: Doogle
To depressing to look at.
At one time we could DO things like that - today we can’t even keep highways in good repair. From a time when NO was not taken for an answer to any challenge, to a time when WE CAN’T is the answer to almost everything worth doing.
That’s what happens when you take people that were not qualified to be anything more than “Miss Grease Rack” back then and entrust them with leadership positions today.
Sigh.
To: Doogle
No kidding. Height of the can do era. Sigh.......
To: Doogle
Awesome.
I touched one once, after it was already out of commission, sitting on the tarmac at Offutt as a museum piece.
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posted on
05/04/2013 12:34:46 PM PDT
by
EternalVigilance
(Life, liberty, property, family, RKBA, sovereignty, security, borders, independence, the oath.)
To: I cannot think of a name
At one time we could DO things like that - today we can’t even keep highways in good repair. From a time when NO was not taken for an answer to any challenge, to a time when WE CAN’T is the answer to almost everything worth doing. That could be said again and again.
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posted on
05/04/2013 12:36:18 PM PDT
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OneWingedShark
(Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
To: chesty_puller
Are you the one who looked inside the hanger while the Black Bird was being refuled and found yourself looking down the bore of a rifle?
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posted on
05/04/2013 12:37:30 PM PDT
by
Ruy Dias de Bivar
(Do we now register our pressure cookers?)
To: Doogle
My uncle, now deceased, worked on those planes as an electronic technician. Lockheed thought enough of him so that they elevated him to an engineer just before he retired. Better retirement. He would board a plane with painted windows, the plane would circle a few times to disorient the passengers, then off to area 51. God Bless him he died at age 95 last year. I miss him a lot as he was a stablizing figure in our lives.
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posted on
05/04/2013 12:42:10 PM PDT
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AEMILIUS PAULUS
(It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
To: andyk
I was temp stationed at Beale with our KC-135Q (we called it “queer”) as it had special tanks aboard for the JP-7 fuel while our aircraft used JP-4.
We used to watch them take off! Straight down the runway, the straight up till out of sight!
We also saw one coming in for a landing, then a puff of smoke and lots of firetrucks headed for the end of the runway.
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posted on
05/04/2013 12:42:44 PM PDT
by
Ruy Dias de Bivar
(Do we now register our pressure cookers?)
To: OneWingedShark
One must make inept women and minorities look adept. I love the TV propaganda.
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05/04/2013 12:44:15 PM PDT
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AEMILIUS PAULUS
(It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
To: chesty_puller
I was ordered not to look at it one time. Yeah, I looked. If you had been with Indiana Jones your face would have melted.
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posted on
05/04/2013 12:44:47 PM PDT
by
freedumb2003
(LBJ declared war on poverty and lost. Barack Obama declared war on prosperity and won. /csmusaret)
To: Doogle
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posted on
05/04/2013 12:50:27 PM PDT
by
thackney
(life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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posted on
05/04/2013 12:52:58 PM PDT
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thackney
(life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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