Posted on 12/28/2016 8:20:44 PM PST by BulletBobCo
A classic story.
...guy likes to talk about talking
at least a 20 year old story.
this story has been going around the airline/aviation community for at least 20 years. it’s probably BS. Military aircraft like this fly above class A airspace so civilian Air Traffic Controllers have no responsibility over them. In addition, performance capabilities are classified info.
Awesome!
This is an oldie, but always fun to re-read.
We attack submariners have many good stories, too, and someday they might even declassify our missions so we can tell them.
touché.
The Space Shuttle was faster than a SR-71, but I think the SR-71 is far cooler. The speed in this story is around Mach 2. The Blackbird is supposed to be capable of Mach 3+.
That is fast.
Yep, at least 20 years old and it still makes me smile.
America...
I believe it’s an excerpt from a book called Sled Driver. As such, you have to wonder if it ever happened at all, or if it was there just to sell books
A friend in the Air Force said that an F-16 pilot was teasing a low flying SR-71 in Korea; calling him an unmaneuverable cow that deserved a sidewinder up the tail-pipe. The SR-71 pilots just said “Try it!” and disappeared in a sonic boom before the F-16 pilot could blink.
Probably didn’t happen but still a good story
Was at an air show at Wright Patterson in Dayton and the SR 71 was scheduled to make an appearance. They announced “ the SR71 is taking off from Beale and their ETA is 45 minutes....”
Great story. I live near near Mt. Whitney and the Mojave Desert and we see these plane all the time.
The most remarkable engineering achievement and it was designed over a half century ago with a slide rule.
the space shuttle is, um . . . well, it’s in orbit . . . ahhhh, and there are these rocket thingies . . .
nah. never mind
My dad helped build out , field and maintain this aircraft , working out of the Skunk Works and up at the ranch . Very proud of my old man . He had been an original member of the newly minted USAF ,transitioning over from USAAF/9thAf to the new SAC in 1947 . The greatest generation .
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