Blackbird take off

[Pudsey Bear]

 

[trevskoda]

When i seen the after burners lighting up it reminded me of my skoda.

 

[2cv]

Amazing machines, saw these at their birthplace in Palmdale a few years ago.

 

[Pudsey Bear]

The wet floor in the hanger was fuel dripping from the tanks.

 

[trevskoda]

The wet floor in the hanger was fuel dripping from the tanks.

Correct, new a chap some years back who was stationed in the place where they were, he said big puddle under them, tanks and expanion joints closed with heat at altitude also had to be refueled at about 30.000 feet for there long trip.

 

[2cv]

Funny speed check story

SR-71 Blackbird Speed Check Story

There were a lot of things we couldn't do in an SR-71, but we were the fastest guys on the block and loved reminding our fellow aviators of this...

www.thesr71blackbird.com

 

[Pudsey Bear]

I heard it a few years ago but well worth repeating Bill

 

[2cv]

Just came across this unusual view that I took of one in Washington.

 

[HTF]

When I look at this plane, place it in it's birth decade and look at all the other plane designs of it's era, I can't stop wandering about Roswell and a lot of reverse engineering or even worse, direct alien cooperation . The same with the electronic evolution timeline

 

[Sharon the Cat]

I remember looking in the cockpit of one at the RAF Mildenhall airshow in 1984.

 

[Pudsey Bear]

When I look at this plane, place it in it's birth decade and look at all the other plane designs of it's era, I can't stop wandering about Roswell and a lot of reverse engineering or even worse, direct alien cooperation . The same with the electronic evolution timeline

Change your name to W.T.F.

 

[2cv]

When I look at this plane, place it in it's birth decade and look at all the other plane designs of it's era, I can't stop wandering about Roswell and a lot of reverse engineering or even worse, direct alien cooperation . The same with the electronic evolution timeline

Here are a gathering of alien craft at Dayton Ohio.

 

[merl]

I remember a story from 2 blackbird (IRC) pilots. Doing MK2 over the Atlantic they were asked to change course because of their proximity to Concorde that was also flying transatlantic on a similar route. Although several miles apart the 2 planes were basically flying side by side for a while, the American Blackbird pilots were actually quite humbled by the fact that their aircraft contained just 2 people wearing something akin to a space suit and being mask fed oxygen while Concorde contained over a hundred, dressed in everyday clothes and were fine dining and drinking champagne.