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These are accounts in a book called 'Sled Driver' written by a SR71 Blackbird pilot. You can get a copy of the book for a few hundred dollars by a private seller if they are selling. Great book with awesome stories.
We listened as the shaky voice of a...
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at horsepowerjunkies):
When the pilot of the SR71 came on requesting 60,000 feet traffic controller to change....
He was telling the story, about when the plane the altitude, 25k to 30k, 15k to 12k, etc etc.
Annex, where the SR71 shown above has been retired.
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Posted 19 March 2012 - 11:06 AM
Saw it on Reddit this morning
http://www.reddit.co...on_line/c420foe
Quote: Extract from a Book by an ex SR-71 Pilot:
There were a lot of things we couldn't do in an SR-71, but we were the fastest guys on the block and ...
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Awesome read.
It's really the pride of American engineering.
I love the SR71...
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On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 04:51:41 -0600, Jimw <jimw@invalid.com
Off Topic, but hardware related.
It's been all over the news about the plane that crashed into a river
in (I think) New York. They said it was caused by birds flying into
the engine. ...
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at omgili):
If
we assume that the pilot is in possesion of the plane while:
The airflow into the intake on a jet engine is significantly higher
than the airspeed of the plane in addition to the plane....
Is in NY, I think it's prohibited by law.
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Hi guys,
It has been a while since i last posted some pictures on the forum, here are some new ones.
HM HA1416 A4D-2 Skyehawk
HM HA2111 F100D Super Sabre
HM HA2506 F105D Thunderchief
HM HA3501 F18C Hornet
Herpa B52
CW SR71 Blackbird
And the last pictures...
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at diecastaircraftforum):
I got the Rapid Rabbit recently as well.
Do you try collect one of each type? Those are some great additions .
Very nice collection and set-up.
Very nice new additions to your collection, nickallah...thanks for sharing....the SR-71 steals the show.. .
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Working on an art piece, and got me thinking about what fighters (all eras) that i personally find best looking....not most historically significant, nor mechanically innovative....purely aesthetics here!
what's yours?
here are mine, in no particular ...
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at ferrarichat):
I would.
In no particular order
mitsubishi zero a6m(2)
lockheed sr71 blackbird
raf (su per marine) spitfire
focke-wulf Ta/
Posted from iPad Just to make the point, the SR71 is most definitely not a fighter aircraft.
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Hi,
Want to know how started your passion for aviation ?
Mine : reading the comic Buck Danny In Korea on holiday when I was about 10??
After this I didn't want to be astronaut but a fighterpilot, a bit later a SR71 pilot, than a F14 pilot (TopGun?),
then...
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I just got a 6 because the teacher didn't like military stuff of EBAW circuit, and I grew up with the habit of looking up at whatever plane flew along surprised I could afford to actually acquire my own....
Of a super high tech fighter plane.
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This was back in 94-99 when I worked with him fueling planes at Honolulu Inter. We got on the subject of the SR71's when all of a sudden he said, "I did the electrical systems on all of them". My eyes popped open and I started asking all kinds of questions...
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Anyone know the age of this one? I seem to remember seeing trucks like this in the 70's at some of the airports that we landed at.
When the DC10's first came out, I flew on one into Newark late at night. The pilot announced that the flaps wouldn't extend...
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at ytmag):
T38 no flap was 170 knots.
SR71 final approach airspeed was in that range.
I would question the 260.
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Anyone know the age of this one? I seem to remember seeing trucks like this in the 70's at some of the airports that we landed at.
When the DC10's first came out, I flew on one into Newark late at night. The pilot announced that the flaps wouldn't extend...
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by 4 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at yesterdaystractors):
T38 no flap was 170 knots.
SR71 final approach airspeed was in that range.
I would question the 260.
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So after 3 years of RC retirement, I decided it was time to get back into some electric flying as that seemed the most enjoyable of all the RC fields.
Having worked at a large franchise hobbyshop for 5 years i had a fair air/ground RC knowledge so when...
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at rcgroups):
Everything was accounted for in the box and had passed 2 seperate QA's... .
EDF's with brushless/lipo, retracts, 2.4ghz radios, the plane was extremly well packaged, sharp knive a must.
Browsing the net for a new plane, i got pretty excited.
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