Posted on 12/28/2016 8:20:44 PM PST by BulletBobCo
Worth repeating!
Proud to see Mrs. JimRed’s cousin’s name on that elite list.
I am not sure I understand your post. Blind Man’s bluff should have never been written until after declassification. Why? Not because of any reason other than it put peoples lives in danger. Personal friends were on missions that had to be scrubbed. I don’t buy into the whole US government lies/hides information thought process because I know they don’t tell the full story because it would put lives at risk. We call it the Silent Service for many reasons.
And for the record I have personally met Snorkel Patty at the Horse and Cow in Vallejo before they moved to Bremerton.
+1
**#They’ve been out of service since 99 or so.***
Which I will never understand. I wish Trump would bring them back.
The shuttle had boosters, which were then disposed of... with the engines (and fuel limitations, it is no where near the 71)..
Shhhh...
Not that any ‘civie’ would believe it ;^)
I was at Patrick AFB in early 90s! “titsville” was a stone throw away ;)
(SkunkWorks) ... ;^)
Worked for Hughes Aircraft at NAS Lemoore operating and maintaining the F/A-18 flight simulators and weapons trainers. There was some snickering and scuttle butt on base among the pilots relating this story when it occurred so I can authenticate it did happen and other Hornet jockeys were aware. We compounded the fun by being able to manually program and fly simulated AML (Aircraft Maneuvering Logic)targets they had radar lock on and would have them accelerate beyond Mach 3 and climb above angles 80, to which the nugget fighter pilot would respond and ask ,”where did the SR71 come from?”
Now that is an honor.
Proud for you indeed.
The Pratt & Whitney J58 documentation for that application covered a range of figures up to Mach 4.2, coordinating altitude, range, fuel burn rate, power derating based on altitude above FL72, etc. The chart curves indicated Mach ~3.2 gave the best range.
Outstanding post! Thank you, from a former F-4/111 WSO.
Edges glow red.
After 20+ years of regular training flights over half the country, which probably didn’t hit max altitude or speed, this was not giving away a national secret. Hell, I had a book on military aircraft in high school in the mid seventies, that listed the 71 and the “published” specs and the speed in the story was nowhere near the published number.
https://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/pdf/88507main_H-2179.pdf
http://www.ga153.com/aero%20space/Aero%20space%20information%20page/aircraft/SR.pdf
I can neither confirm nor deny the stories in Blind Man’s Bluff. We did oceanographic research in the North Atlantic. ;-)
Truly awesome. Enough to make any red-blooded American cry tears of pride.
Definitely not BS, for anyone to suggest that is a sign of someone who has no experience in how these things happen.
I’ve worked with sled drivers, a very unique bunch.
“...as he recognized places, “I bombed this, and that, and that...” and then stopped for fear of upsetting the owners and patrons.”
An old boss of mine and I were at a science convention, seated with a bunch of Russians. The first guy says he’s from Moscow. My boss replies “Yeah - that was always on our target list - I did air-photo interpretation during the 50’s for our nukes.” Of course every time another Russian would say where he was from my boss would reply in similar fashion, and the reason why (your submarine base, your engine factory, etc.).
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