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| Shit don't mean shit |
That was well worth the 70 mins to watch it. Wow. | |||
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Aurora lives 
______________________________________________ Life is short. It’s shorter with the wrong gun… | |||
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Politics. | |||
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Old Air Cavalryman |
TMats, thank you for posting that up. I was rolling!  "Also I heard the voice of the Lord saying who shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, here am I, send me." | |||
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Ammoholic |
That was great - thanks for posting! | |||
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A Grateful American |
And if the jet left LA when you started the video, it would reach New York as it finished. "the meaning of life, is to give life meaning" ✡ Ani Yehudi אני יהודי Le'olam lo shuv לעולם לא שוב! | |||
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Loved both the short clip and the full version. Great American story! SJS | |||
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| Crusty old curmudgeon  |
One of the most awesome things I've seen was a Blackbird leaving Fairchild AF base in Spokane after an airshow in the 90's. It was rolling down the runway when he hit afterburner just before rotating and it stopped being an airplane and became a rocket. It didn't go straight vertical, but close to it and the sight and sound of those few moments are imbedded in my memory forever. Very impressive machine indeed. Jim ________________________ "If you can't be a good example, then you'll have to be a horrible warning" -Catherine Aird | |||
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Legalize the Constitution |
Shul obviously had respect for President Reagan, "He knew how to use this airplane." Loved his story about flying figure 8s over the PRNK when the Commies had their high-level conference. Sonic booms every 6 1/2 minutes "rattling their coffee cups off the table." As Maj. Shul put it, "Just to let them know, 'we know you're there, and you know we're here, and there's not a darn thing you can do about it'." _______________________________________________________ despite them | |||
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Baroque Bloke |
According to several articles that I've read, an unstart of one engine would bang the pilot's helmet against the canopy pretty smartly, but didn't generally cause the plane to break up. Serious about crackers | |||
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Bookmarked to find for future watching - Thanks | |||
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Both videos were terific. Bookmarked for future viewing enjoyment. Thanks for sharing. | |||
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| 186,000 miles per second. It's the law. |
I've always loved that story. We have a Blackbird here in Seattle at the Boeing Museum of Flight (amazing museum) and I go to look at it once a year. | |||
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I am envious of anyone who has personally witnessed the SR-71 either in an official capacity or as an air show spectator. I just recently learned how these birds had to refuel shortly after takeoff because of the amount of fuel that leaked out of the tanks. Incredible engineering for its time. RB Cancer fighter (Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma) since 2009, now fighting Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma. | |||
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I was stationed on Okinawa 1971 -1972. I watched them fly out of Kadena all the time. I was stationed across the bay at Tori Station. A take off sounded like a Saturn 5 launch. It had the roar and crackly sound of a rocket launch. I watched it take off several times from next to the runway. I could see the crew dressed in what looked exactly like what our astronauts wore. A special KC135 took off about an hour before the black jet did. It would refuel the 71 because it could not take off fully loaded. Then the 71 would then make its takeoff roll with long cones of fire shooting out the back, rotate, point its nose at the heavens and be gone in a blink of the eye, leaving only the crackling roar of its passing. I was told it could fly from Okinawa to the West Coast in 2 hours. We have to have something already in service or in the works to replace it. Sgt. USMC 1970 - 1973 | |||
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| 186,000 miles per second. It's the law. |
Damn that must have been awesome to watch. Today I was near Boeing Field and 6 Blue Angels came in VERY low in tight formation, right overhead. I love that sound. | |||
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His Royal Hiney |
I've read the story but it's much better hearing it from the pilot's own voice. "It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946. | |||
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| 4-H Shooting Sports Instructor  |
I have seen this story too ,, But hearing it in his voice was much better. _______________________________ 'The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but > because he loves what is behind him.' G. K. Chesterton NRA Endowment Life member NRA Pistol instructor...and Range Safety instructor Women On Target Instructor. | |||
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I watched one take off from an air base in the South West US back in the mid-to late-1960's. The base was also populated with F-100's and F-4C's, and we had been watching them all morning. You could follow them visually for about two minutes or more after takeoff in the clear desert air. When the SR-71 left, the ground shook and the building we were in rattled. We ran outside just in time to see the plane rotate, nearly at the end of the runway. It lifted off, built up speed for a few seconds, then climbed nearly straight-up. Despite being over twice the size of the other planes we had been watching, it was out of sight in thirty seconds!  -------------------------- Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. -- H L Mencken I always prefer reality when I can figure out what it is. -- JALLEN 10/18/18 | |||
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Coin Sniper |
That reference is much more entertaining if you hear his entire lecture Pronoun: His Royal Highness and benevolent Majesty of all he surveys 343 - Never Forget Its better to be Pavlov's dog than Schrodinger's cat There are three types of mistakes; Those you learn from, those you suffer from, and those you don't survive. | |||
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