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Her dad was an RSO and had been working on a book before he died. She tells a lot of the stories he planned for the book.
https://theaviationgeekclub.com/sr-71-rso-recalls-when-he-and-his-pilot-had-a-catastrophic-engine-failure-at-mach-2-88-at-68000-feet-and-tells-how-they-were-able-to-land-their-crippled-blackbird/amp/ |
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Excellent, thanks for the link!
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 Developmental YF-12  D-21 drone. Canceled after too many crashes. 
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Some time around the middle of the 70's, I was working at a remote electrical sub station near Beale AFB.
A SR-71 flew ovrerhead and all of us just stopped what we were doing and watched in awe Many years earlier at Utapao AFB in Thailand, I would watch the U2's take off and land. A laud rocket ship looking thing that once got off the ground, went into a extreme angle point up into space. Cool memories.
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Sometime in 1994 I was a Boeing flight test guy on a remote trip to Edwards testing brakes on the 767-400. We had about a week down while replacing a MLG axle and I took my ID and driving passes for a ride. That day I visited a SR-71 in the hangar, the drop test B-52 and a B1 being pre-flighted by my Boeing counterparts.
I sat in each one making airplane noises when no one was looking. The SR-71 had been retired but NASA was using one for some type of test that I don't recall right now. I looked into everything - wheel wells, engine bays, access panels, etc. All very classic aircraft systems from a design layout. The B-52 was outside of the hangar and the maintenance crew just asked that I let them know when I was leaving. I crawled through every space, sat in every seat, looked over the drop test symbols on the exterior with awe actually. The B1 was powered up and undergoing the preflight but my Boeing mates let me sit in and observe as long as I wanted. Again, I was impressed. Very cool day for an airplane nerd. |
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Cool story, dar. I'd love to hear more!
I stopped by the Evergreen Museum once on my way to visit family in Portland and thought it was great. Have you been there? https://www.evergreenmuseum.org/ Some pics from my visit. https://gromitspapa.smugmug.com/Airplanes/Evergreen-Aviation-Space
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Not to hijack this thread but... I had flown down to Evergreen to pick up a check in 2005, as I was getting ready to leave my phone pinged with an alert that a 911 listing had popped up on Craigslist, A black/tan interior 87 coupe in perfect condition located in Ashland OR. I called and arranged to meet the seller at the Ashland airport beating anyone else by hours with check in hand. Off we went to the the local B of A to cash the check and bang! - I had a 911. Made the return trip a week later with my wife and drove it back through Crater Lake, Bend and Mt. Hood.       
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My brother who retired from the USAF at Beale and who still works there as a Gov Contractor sent me this today on the D-21.
Interesting read https://theaviationgeekclub.com/the-most-secret-program-ever-developed-by-lockheed-skunk-works-was-not-the-sr-71-blackbird-the-d-21-drone-and-project-senior-bowl/amp/ Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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Porsche 912
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