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Post subject: SR-71 Blackbird AirVenture Oshkosh 1989  Posted: 12 Aug 2018, 20:57 |
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Read the book Ben R. Rich "Skunk Works" , they were the best aviation engineers in the World.
[youtube]https://youtu.be/qDTECZShylA[/youtube]
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Post subject: Re: SR-71 Blackbird AirVenture Oshkosh 1989 Posted: 13 Aug 2018, 04:04 |
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Man I wish I was old enough to have been there to see that. SR1 is a weapon!
Andrew
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Post subject: Re: SR-71 Blackbird AirVenture Oshkosh 1989 Posted: 13 Aug 2018, 12:56 |
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I was at the Travis air show back in the '80s when a SR-71 was returning from Kadena to Beal and made 4 passes over Travis. It was the most incredible thing I have seen/felt at an airshow. I had to have my fingers in my ears due to noise and it felt like someone was pounding on my chest when it flew by. I'm sure it was light on fuel after the Pacific crossing, and it performed like an agile fighter.
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Post subject: Re: SR-71 Blackbird AirVenture Oshkosh 1989 Posted: 13 Aug 2018, 13:06 |
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I always wanted to see one of these things fly in person and the closest I came was in the fall of 1999. I was a flight student (Navy) and my floor was almost completely covered with charts, approach plates, fuel plans, flight plans, PPR information along the way, and everything else associated with planning several legs to the Edwards AFB airshow. The NASA SR-71 was planned to make an appearance there.
Alas, the squadron thought that was a bridge too far, for a T-34 from Florida to California, so that was that.
As it turned out, that was also the very last public flight of this great airplane!
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Post subject: Re: SR-71 Blackbird AirVenture Oshkosh 1989 Posted: 13 Aug 2018, 23:55 |
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Username Protected wrote: Man I wish I was old enough to have been there to see that. SR1 is a weapon!
Andrew Andrew, I'm not old enough for you to make me feel that old! 
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Post subject: Re: SR-71 Blackbird AirVenture Oshkosh 1989 Posted: 14 Aug 2018, 10:05 |
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Abe Kardong was chief pilot at Flightcraft in Spokane. He was an Air Force test pilot, and test flew the SR-71. One day the AF decided they wanted Abe to take off without the computers being "ON." The cockpit of that SR-71, that crashed, is now at the Seattle "Museum of Flight."  Abe LOVED to tell his aviation stories!!
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Post subject: Re: SR-71 Blackbird AirVenture Oshkosh 1989 Posted: 14 Aug 2018, 21:46 |
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Missed the OSH flight but had an opportunity in the early '80's to watch a launch up close and personal at Beale when I dropped off an application (not selected) for the program. Was treated very well including a personal tour prior to the launch followed by a ride in the chase car during the launch. Looking back, what struck me the most was the cockpit was not much different than that of the F-4.
It was truly a magnificent aircraft.
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Post subject: Re: SR-71 Blackbird AirVenture Oshkosh 1989 Posted: 14 Aug 2018, 22:33 |
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Username Protected wrote: Takeoff, three passes, then...oops!...gotta go get gas. I can only imagine the fuel burn of these things down low.
There are some good books on how they operated them. They would routinely take off and refuel in the climb.
Too bad we don’t have this one online any more. It had enormous capability. Just read Ben R. Rich "Skunk Works" book and you will know everything about this plane and not only
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