BeechTalk - BT - Av. Week SR-71 pirep

Username Protected · **Posted:** 04 Sep 2014, 09:50

http://aviationweek.com/site-files/avia ... /SR-71.pdf

Interesting read if you have a few minutes.

Single engine go around (feet on the floor & one engine in afterburner) letting the SAS take care of the rudder inputs...at 300 feet.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 04 Sep 2014, 10:17

What an airplane. Go back to 1967 and look at the cars we were driving. Your smartphone has more computing power than a building full of computers would have had back then, yet they built this plane. Some very great minds back then!

Username Protected · **Posted:** 04 Sep 2014, 10:44

Great read. Amazing plane no doubt. Don't tell all of the Bonanza drivers here, but did you notice they do "touch and go's" in an SR71! :ohno:

Username Protected · **Posted:** 04 Sep 2014, 11:42

Yes, but they don't get the benefit of all that taxi time.

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Great read. Amazing plane no doubt. Don't tell all of the Bonanza drivers here, but did you notice they do "touch and go's" in an SR71! :ohno:

Username Protected · **Posted:** 04 Sep 2014, 11:50

one can only imagine most of these numbers are heavily doctored since this was a very active asset at the time of this publication

i'd like to see the REAL numbers

Username Protected · **Posted:** 04 Sep 2014, 12:54

The astro-inertial nav system is/was pretty impressive.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 04 Sep 2014, 13:21

I love the SR-71 blackbird. It was such an incredible airplane. I read a pilot's memories of the airplane awhile back and found it fascinating. Here are some of the excerpts:

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One moonless night, while flying a routine training mission over the Pacific, I wondered what the sky would look like from 84,000 feet if the cockpit lighting were dark. While heading home on a straight course, I slowly turned down all of the lighting, reducing the glare and revealing the night sky. Within seconds, I turned the lights back up, fearful that the jet would know and somehow punish me. But my desire to see the sky overruled my caution, I dimmed the lighting again. To my amazement, I saw a bright light outside my window. As my eyes adjusted to the view, I realized that the brilliance was the broad expanse of the Milky Way, now a gleaming stripe across the sky. Where dark spaces in the sky had usually existed, there were now dense clusters of sparkling stars Shooting stars flashed across the canvas every few seconds. It was like a fireworks display with no sound.

There's some more in this article about outrunning missiles over Africa. You can read it here: http://gizmodo.com/5511236/the-thrill-o ... -blackbird

What an awesome machine... :bow:

Username Protected · **Posted:** 04 Sep 2014, 16:05

some very cool and rare footage of the SR-71 being made and rough parts being cast and tooled

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B4_td3C ... dIZUU/edit

Username Protected · **Posted:** 04 Sep 2014, 16:39

We had them at Kadena AB back in the sixties. I've got 8mm home movies of it. Don't tell anyone though 'cause, you know...

I worked on the refueling system of the "Q" model tankers that refueled it. When I worked for UPS I had a co-pilot that flew them. Interesting stories. :pilot:

Username Protected · **Posted:** 04 Sep 2014, 17:17

The SR71 was around the same time as the Concorde. What incredible planes, in their own way.

From Orville and Wilber to those planes... and now 50 years later, we have.... Well, that's disappointing. :shrug:

Username Protected · **Posted:** 04 Sep 2014, 20:06

Done by the once great country. BH

Username Protected · **Posted:** 04 Sep 2014, 20:34

Username Protected wrote:

The SR71 was around the same time as the Concorde. What incredible planes, in their own way.

From Orville and Wilber to those planes... and now 50 years later, we have.... Well, that's disappointing. :shrug:

True. However if an SR-71 pilot from the 60s was given a ride in a Cirrus he would think he was riding in a shuttle craft from the Enterprise.