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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera View Post
One of our former customers was a retired SR-71 pilot. When we discovered that we quizzed him on every visit for stories. He said more than once he would call his wife and say "Honey I will be home for supper tonight" and climb in at a base that he described as just "Indochina" area, overfly North Vietnam, and set the nose for home. Land, at Edwards AFB, debrief, and drive home for dinner. Just a tad more expensive of a flight and no landings in between, just air to air refueling.
This one needs a follow up story, one of the greatest ever if you are a pilot or into the whole aviation thing..

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