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Post subject: Re: NASA SR-71 @ OSH; Do Not Light the Afterburners  Posted: 16 Aug 2021, 21:54 |
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I might have been there for this. It was in the 90s I was a teenager and I love(d) the SR-71. It was flying at OSH, it did a pass or two down the runway and was supposed to go out over the lake and make a high speed pass but something went wrong and it never came back.
Incredible in the air.
Thanks for sharing the link
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Post subject: Re: NASA SR-71 @ OSH; Do Not Light the Afterburners Posted: 16 Aug 2021, 22:50 |
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Rogers Smith is a cool cat!
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Post subject: Re: NASA SR-71 @ OSH; Do Not Light the Afterburners Posted: 06 Oct 2022, 01:05 |
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Jim Zazas! The same famous Jim Zazas that buzzed E45 (then Q68) early one morning in a B-17❤️
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Post subject: Re: NASA SR-71 @ OSH; Do Not Light the Afterburners Posted: 07 Oct 2022, 10:58 |
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Username Protected wrote: That low speed is a super high drag configuration, almost on the back side of the power curve. They need a little more power than mil, but not as much as both afterburners. Correct, same when tankering off a KC-97 in an F-4 with 3 external fuel tanks.
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Post subject: Re: NASA SR-71 @ OSH; Do Not Light the Afterburners Posted: 07 Oct 2022, 14:37 |
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That brought back memories. The one and only time that I refueled from a guard KC97 in an F111D the KC97 had to be in a slight descent so we could maintain a safe speed with wings full forward and partial flaps.
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Post subject: Re: NASA SR-71 @ OSH; Do Not Light the Afterburners Posted: 07 Oct 2022, 15:35 |
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Username Protected wrote: That brought back memories. The one and only time that I refueled from a guard KC97 in an F111D the KC97 had to be in a slight descent so we could maintain a safe speed with wings full forward and partial flaps. Sort of off topic, but I was at Cannon with F-111D's in 1972-73. Terrible electronics problems and the fancy electronic testers for the boxes didn't work very well either. A team from GD came in on a major effort to fix fuel leaks, and just before I left, I heard they were leaking again. Do you know if they ever resolved any of this?
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Post subject: Re: NASA SR-71 @ OSH; Do Not Light the Afterburners Posted: 08 Oct 2022, 19:43 |
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We had an SR-71 divert into Korat in 1972. They promptly put in a hangar with armed guards (but Thai guards), so no one could come near it. Flew in a KC-135 with people and parts to fix it. I missed the takeoff, have never seen one fly.
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Post subject: Re: NASA SR-71 @ OSH; Do Not Light the Afterburners Posted: 08 Oct 2022, 19:47 |
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My one and only chance to see an SR, it cancelled. The airplane was doing a final repositioning flight from the West Coast to Warner Robbins and was supposed to do an en-route flyby at Lockheed Georgia. I begged off work to see it, but it never appeared.
They got smoke in the cockpit and went direct Warner Robbins.
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