what an awesome airplane, and some fantastic stories here.
I saw/heard/felt an SR71 night time full afterburner takeoff at Misawa AB in Japan when we were detached there in the late '80's -- one of those things that's permanently burned into my memory
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And yowsah, there is some scary a$$ $hit in that low pass video. I bet some of the pilots had to change flight suits after landing. . . .the Yak (or MiG?) doing the wave off at 0:30 looks like he came really close to stalling, and the loop at 1:45. . . .