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Re: SR-71 Blackbird Flight Manual

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Post by Gambit89 » Wed, May 12, 2010, 5:25 AM UTC

I'll just leave this link here...

http://gizmodo.com/5511236/the-thrill-of-flying-the-sr+71-bl...

Re: SR-71 Blackbird Flight Manual

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Post by watmough » Wed, May 12, 2010, 5:48 AM UTC

Caught part of a MILT channel show from 2002 about the SR-71 / Lockheed Skunkworks.

One thing I hadn't seen before was this... an unmanned drone, launched from the back of an SR-71, at Mach 2. What a country!

http://www.sr-71.org/blackbird/d-21.php

Re: SR-71 Blackbird Flight Manual

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, May 12, 2010, 7:34 AM UTC

rosser wrote: post #5

UnknownSource wrote: post #2

Saw this the other week (I think its been posted to hacker news before). It's actually surprisingly easy to understand, even for private barely-trained pilot's.

I'm sure I wasn't the first to see it, but I posted it last Thursday. I'm not surprised it didn't get any traction, though; the Dow was busy eating its own head around the same time.

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Re: SR-71 Blackbird Flight Manual

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Post by evgen » Wed, May 12, 2010, 7:41 AM UTC

Gambit89 wrote: post #21

I'll just leave this link here... http://gizmodo.com/5511236/the-thrill-of-flying-the-sr+71-bl...

A better excerpt of the "king of speed" story from Sled Driver stuffed into the middle of that article is here:

http://groups.google.com/group/rec.aviation.stories/browse_t...

Re: SR-71 Blackbird Flight Manual

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Post by mos1 » Wed, May 12, 2010, 2:24 PM UTC

harshpotatoes wrote: post #19

Now I really want to watch The Right Stuff again.

It's on Netflix streaming. I'd say you owe me 3 hours, but I liked it.