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Posted: 7/28/2016 8:42:00 PM EDT
In Minot AFB we had one come in for an emergency landing. It landed and went straight into a hanger and was immediately surround by the Security Forces
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N31eEXjNAUU
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Posted: 7/28/2016 8:46:14 PM EDT
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Sweet, sweet aircraft.
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Posted: 7/28/2016 8:48:05 PM EDT
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Thread needs more Habu.
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Posted: 7/28/2016 8:48:40 PM EDT
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A plane (more like a hell spawn titanium demon bird) that embodies America of old perfectly. Balls to the walls fast, 90% exotic metal 10% patriotism, sloppy in its perfection. Built by men who dared to dream of sending pilots to see God and armed with pencils and slide rules. Fuck yeah.
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Posted: 7/28/2016 8:49:14 PM EDT
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All Hail Kelly Johnson!
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Posted: 7/28/2016 8:50:39 PM EDT
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Assuming this wasn't recent? Thought they were all retired. And super sweet bird! I've only had the pleasure of seeing one in person once. Damn I wish I could have ridden in one
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Posted: 7/28/2016 8:50:48 PM EDT
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My father was telling me stories of the SR-71 and things they did when it was on the ground. Even on the ground and in the hangar he had to put paper over the windows to prevent anyone seeing inside the plane.
My father is not a real talkative person with me, but it is fun when he is around familiar things. In this case I took him to the SAC museum in Nebraska and as soon as he saw the SR-71 in the entry he started to talk a little. |
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Posted: 7/28/2016 8:50:54 PM EDT
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Evergreen Air Museum has one of those.
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Posted: 7/28/2016 8:53:27 PM EDT
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They had one for a while here at the Ft. Snelling Air Guard Museum.
I touched it. 
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Posted: 7/28/2016 8:53:41 PM EDT
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I love the Blackbird...
With that said, all birds matter! 
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Posted: 7/28/2016 8:55:48 PM EDT
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SAC museum in NE.
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Posted: 7/28/2016 8:56:07 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: They had one for a while here at the Ft. Snelling Air Guard Museum. I touched it. |
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Posted: 7/28/2016 8:57:47 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryYeah.. That's Ben Rich. |
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Posted: 7/28/2016 8:58:08 PM EDT
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Neat thread. The Fastest one ever is local to me, and the pilots that ran it to 2200 mph are going to be in town this weekend.
That plane looks like it's doing at least Mach 1.5 sitting stationary! |
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Posted: 7/28/2016 8:58:27 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Yeah.. That's Ben Rich. Quote HistoryQuoted: Yeah.. That's Ben Rich.  I was about to post thisKelly Johnson  |
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Posted: 7/28/2016 8:59:29 PM EDT
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They had one for a while here at the Ft. Snelling Air Guard Museum. I touched it. I remember in the early to mid eighties as a kid, sneaking under the rope and walking the length of the SR-71 while running my hand across it.
It was a weird feeling. |
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Posted: 7/28/2016 9:02:14 PM EDT
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Yeah.. That's Ben Rich. Quote HistoryQuoted:
Yeah.. That's Ben Rich. Well, screw me runnin'. Searched for Kelly.  That's what I get for not wearing my glasses.
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Posted: 7/28/2016 9:02:43 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuote HistoryQuoted:
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Yeah.. That's Ben Rich. I was about to post this
Kelly Johnson http://i.imgur.com/thkfiRT.jpg Who is actually Clarence Leonard Johnson. That man had a hand in designing a lot of aircraft. |
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Posted: 7/28/2016 9:03:55 PM EDT
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Quoted:
In Minot AFB we had one come in for an emergency landing. It landed and went straight into a hanger and was immediately surround by the Security Forces Around '80 when we were living on Mountain Home AFB (I was 9 at the time) one landed on base and same deal, was parked in a hangar and surrounded by SP's. My dad took us down to the flightline to see it. We were only allowed to view it from the open door but it was still cool to be that close. Got to see it take off the next day. Living on an AFB was cool for that kind of stuff. 
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Posted: 7/28/2016 9:04:20 PM EDT
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I miss seeing them around Beale AFB.
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Posted: 7/28/2016 9:05:42 PM EDT
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Better video on the engines then the one posted above: |
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Posted: 7/28/2016 9:17:55 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryThat is Ben Rich, not Kelly. |
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Posted: 7/28/2016 9:27:35 PM EDT
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There is also one on display at the Kansas cosmosphere in Hutchinson KS
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Posted: 7/28/2016 9:28:24 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: All Hail Kelly Johnson!  |
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Posted: 7/28/2016 9:28:35 PM EDT
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I saw the one on the smithsonian and it was striking how small it is. I figured it to be huge but it's not all that big.
It was supposed to be a difficult bird to fly. You have to wonder if we could do better these days but there doesn't seem to be a mission for something like that. |
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Posted: 7/28/2016 9:28:39 PM EDT
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Posted: 7/28/2016 9:28:45 PM EDT
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Decades in retirement and there is just now public discussion of the SR-72, yea right. What replaced this thing and no it's not satellites in of themselves. They are not possible as this platform provided near immediate coverage anywhere.
This technology is 60 years old we just didn't park it in the garage and say well it was fun! Great men made this plan and other great men have mad superior successors, they had to have right??? |
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Posted: 7/28/2016 9:29:12 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I remember in the early to mid eighties as a kid, sneaking under the rope and walking the length of the SR-71 while running my hand across it. It was a weird feeling. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: They had one for a while here at the Ft. Snelling Air Guard Museum. I touched it. I remember in the early to mid eighties as a kid, sneaking under the rope and walking the length of the SR-71 while running my hand across it. It was a weird feeling. it's at CIA HQ now |
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Posted: 7/28/2016 9:30:24 PM EDT
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We are so stupid that we abandon every great piece of equipment that we invent.
With modern technology, the SR71 could have been improved and used for good. A shame that we have to look to the past to see our greatest aircraft. That is what happens when non patriots infiltrate our government and military. Here we are using scraps to keep some of our current aircraft going. Is that the next great generation of aircraft to replace the SR71 and/or the space shuttle? The skunkworks program should be reactivated and we should blow the world away with our technology and know how, and bring back the SR71, and make it great again, even greater than ever before. |
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Posted: 7/28/2016 9:33:05 PM EDT
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Assuming this wasn't recent? Thought they were all retired. And super sweet bird! I've only had the pleasure of seeing one in person once. Damn I wish I could have ridden in one Not only retired but I'd heard that they destroyed all of the special fuel stocks for it. |
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Posted: 7/28/2016 9:34:29 PM EDT
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SAC museum in NE. http:////embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js http:////embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js At the old "Museum" it was just setting on an old part of the runway. I ran my hands all over that thing like it was a beautiful girl. |
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Posted: 7/28/2016 9:34:44 PM EDT
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Decades in retirement and there is just now public discussion of the SR-72, yea right. What replaced this thing and no it's not satellites in of themselves. They are not possible as this platform provided near immediate coverage anywhere. This technology is 60 years old we just didn't park it in the garage and say well it was fun! Great men made this plan and other great men have mad superior successors, they had to have right??? You can't skate around the physics. There was no successor. |
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Posted: 7/28/2016 9:35:10 PM EDT
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Vintage porn soundtrack music in first video is kinda appropriate. in a weird kind of way. |
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Posted: 7/28/2016 9:41:05 PM EDT
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I was fascinated with that plane as a kid. We actually bought the materials to build it from the Russians through a series of CIA shell corporations.
I got my hands on a pdf copy of "Sled Driver" not too long ago. The author recently released another batch of 2,500 copies but he's selling them for $550. sleddriver.com |
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Posted: 7/28/2016 9:46:24 PM EDT
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I disagree, what's up with all of the work still on going in our black budget, increased activity at groom lake, new longer run ways, etc....
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Posted: 7/28/2016 9:50:53 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted:
We are so stupid that we abandon every great piece of equipment that we invent. With modern technology, the SR71 could have been improved and used for good. A shame that we have to look to the past to see our greatest aircraft. That is what happens when non patriots infiltrate our government and military. Here we are using scraps to keep some of our current aircraft going. Is that the next great generation of aircraft to replace the SR71 and/or the space shuttle? The skunkworks program should be reactivated and we should blow the world away with our technology and know how, and bring back the SR71, and make it great again, even greater than ever before. The new direction of our military: ---------------------------------------------------------- Navy to Name Ship After Gay Rights Activist Harvey Milk The Navy is set to name a ship after the gay rights icon and San Francisco politician Harvey Milk, according to a Congressional notification obtained by USNI News. The July 14, 2016 notification, signed by Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus, indicated he intended to name a planned Military Sealift Command fleet oiler USNS Harvey Milk (T-AO-206). The ship would be the second of the John Lewis-class oilers being built by General Dynamics NASSCO in San Diego, Calif. The Secretary of the Navy’s office is deferring releasing additional information until the naming announcement, a Navy official told USNI News on Thursday. Mabus has said the John Lewis-class – named after civil rights activist and congressman Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) – would be named after civil rights leaders. Other names in the class include former Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren whose court ruled to desegregate U.S. schools, former Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, women’s right activist Lucy Stone and abolitionist and women’s rights activist Sojourner Truth. LINK |
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Posted: 7/28/2016 9:54:42 PM EDT
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Never been done before...
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Posted: 7/28/2016 9:59:12 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted:
We are so stupid that we abandon every great piece of equipment that we invent. With modern technology, the SR71 could have been improved and used for good. A shame that we have to look to the past to see our greatest aircraft. That is what happens when non patriots infiltrate our government and military. Here we are using scraps to keep some of our current aircraft going. Is that the next great generation of aircraft to replace the SR71 and/or the space shuttle? The skunkworks program should be reactivated and we should blow the world away with our technology and know how, and bring back the SR71, and make it great again, even greater than ever before. It's never going to happen. We're a welfare for everyone country now. The FSA is perfectly happy living on scraps from the government. Those people have no imagination, drive, or ambition. Do you think FBHO would ever sign off on a project like this? It's sad. |
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Posted: 7/28/2016 10:01:23 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted:
A plane (more like a hell spawn titanium demon bird) that embodies America of old perfectly. Balls to the walls fast, 90% exotic metal 10% patriotism, sloppy in its perfection. Built by men who dared to dream of sending pilots to see God and armed with pencils and slide rules. Fuck yeah. Before the communists took over. Never again.
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Posted: 7/28/2016 10:02:55 PM EDT
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Never been done before... You of all people should t complain about this one. This is a "dupe" that is acceptable. |
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Posted: 7/28/2016 10:23:18 PM EDT
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A great plane designed when America was a great nation.
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Posted: 7/28/2016 10:29:29 PM EDT
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It's never going to happen. We're a welfare for everyone country now. The FSA is perfectly happy living on scraps from the government. Those people have no imagination, drive, or ambition. Do you think FBHO would ever sign off on a project like this? It's sad. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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We are so stupid that we abandon every great piece of equipment that we invent. With modern technology, the SR71 could have been improved and used for good. A shame that we have to look to the past to see our greatest aircraft. That is what happens when non patriots infiltrate our government and military. Here we are using scraps to keep some of our current aircraft going. Is that the next great generation of aircraft to replace the SR71 and/or the space shuttle? The skunkworks program should be reactivated and we should blow the world away with our technology and know how, and bring back the SR71, and make it great again, even greater than ever before. It's never going to happen. We're a welfare for everyone country now. The FSA is perfectly happy living on scraps from the government. Those people have no imagination, drive, or ambition. Do you think FBHO would ever sign off on a project like this? It's sad. Stop. Both of you. |
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Posted: 7/28/2016 10:30:36 PM EDT
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Was at Kadena in 83 waiting to fly out. Heard the rumble, it rolled out on to the runwaay and bada bing. Fucker was gone. |
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Posted: 7/28/2016 10:32:24 PM EDT
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The CIA had a single seat version called the A-12 Oxcart.
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Posted: 7/28/2016 10:35:13 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted:
I saw the one on the smithsonian and it was striking how small it is. I figured it to be huge but it's not all that big. It was supposed to be a difficult bird to fly. You have to wonder if we could do better these days but there doesn't seem to be a mission for something like that. The SR-71 was about the size I expected. The shuttle though, that thing's friggin huuuuuuuuuge!
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Posted: 7/28/2016 10:36:33 PM EDT
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IN!
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Posted: 7/28/2016 10:38:22 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted:
I was fascinated with that plane as a kid. We actually bought the materials to build it from the Russians through a series of CIA shell corporations. I got my hands on a pdf copy of "Sled Driver" not too long ago. The author recently released another batch of 2,500 copies but he's selling them for $550. sleddriver.com Same here. I read the entire book cover to cover while waiting for my son's triple hernia surgery to finish. It did a great job of keeping my mind off some strangers hacking on my kid... I may have the pdf floating around here still... |
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Posted: 7/28/2016 10:40:18 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted:
I saw the one on the smithsonian and it was striking how small it is. I figured it to be huge but it's not all that big. It was supposed to be a difficult bird to fly. You have to wonder if we could do better these days but there doesn't seem to be a mission for something like that. This one really brings it home: 
Kharn |
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Posted: 7/28/2016 10:42:15 PM EDT
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I always assumed the J58 was a two stage ECS bleed, with two extra bleed valves internal to the engine It wasn't until I saw these youtube videos showing the compressor bypass modification that I realized what was going on. Two birds with one stone. Granted, nobody really cares about the second bird.
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Posted: 7/28/2016 10:44:23 PM EDT
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I got a boner just from the title of this thread.
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Posted: 7/28/2016 10:44:43 PM EDT
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This one really brings it home: http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/images/311848main_EC97-44165-149_full.jpg Kharn Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I saw the one on the smithsonian and it was striking how small it is. I figured it to be huge but it's not all that big. It was supposed to be a difficult bird to fly. You have to wonder if we could do better these days but there doesn't seem to be a mission for something like that. This one really brings it home: http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/images/311848main_EC97-44165-149_full.jpg Kharn I would have tried to work my own little quadcopter in that photo somewhere. |
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