Thursday, December 20, 2018
I Think a Lot of Folks Can Enjoy This Bit of History, starting in 1966. I Sure Had No Idea. I Was in 9th Grade.
You can stop around 44:19
Here's a short from Brian Shul, an SR-71 Pilot with a short story about flying the SR-71.
If you love this stuff as I do, Youtube has a LOT more content from actual SR-71 pilots.
Btw- Surface to Air missiles are known to travel at mach 5. I've read where people testify to seeing Mach 6.7 patches on SR-71 pilots sleeves. Let's remember that the X-15, a test bed for the SR-71 and the space shuttle, flew at mach 6.7. A Mach 3 plane is not going to outtrun a mach 5 missile.
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ReplyDeleteLSP, Exploring the SR-71 youtubes is an enjoyable experience. I remember one of the pilots talking about how 90 some % of the potential pilots washed out on the simulator. Not an easy aircraft to fly.
DeleteA friend of mine once told me that the SR-72 leaked like a sieve; fuel, hydrolic fluid ... the things we ask our young men to do.
ReplyDeleteSam, it leaked fuel on the ground for sure. The fuselage ran about 1100 degrees F at cruising speed so it would expand and seal everything up.
DeleteHere is a Great Read on Flying the SR-71 by Brian Shul. There are also youtubes where he and other pilots talk about flying it.
The things we did in the 1960's never to be repeated:
ReplyDeleteMach 7 by the SR-71. What US aircraft does this now?
We landed on the moon. Have we been back lately?
Cleveland Browns had a great football team. Now? Not so much.
You could do your wash on Kid's 6-pack abs. Now? Uh uh.
Fredd, I read where 'they' are working on a new commercial supersonic airliner that doesn't give much of a sonic boom. We don't seem to be getting much new R&D for our money these days now that you bring it up.
DeleteOnce we were regularly going to the moon, how much did it really cost? Not much compared to the crap we throw money at these days.
The abs are still there but camouflaged as a different shape.
Well - I had no idea and I wasn't in the 9th grade.
ReplyDeleteFredd - I can think of quite a few other things we did in the 60's that are being repeated - unfortunately.
Adrienne: clarification to my list of accomplishments above that we'll never see again: none of those 1960's feats were achieved by hippies. The 'quite a few other things' you alude to were ALL done by hippies.
DeleteAdrienne, I love this stuff. That is a great story I lined in the reply to Sam. Brian Shul talks about his mission flying over Libya to recon the damage done to kadaffi's palace. He is a great story teller.
DeleteIn 1966 I was a little girl living in the world of the space adventures of Enterprise NCC 1701. Thanks for illuminating the real times for me now.
ReplyDeleteMy Pleasure Cube. Glad you enjoyed.:-)
DeleteSeems to me, so much fantastic-ness in today's society has been replaced by the most boring adolescent drivel known to man or beast. I miss the excellence and realize it is dying off minute by minute.
I get it, but I'm not a millennial. Excellence and a bravo get-it-done attitude are lost on the enabled and the entitled. I hope we can get it back.
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DeleteCube, I have a hard time convincing myself that it will happen before America hits rock bottom and the kids all feel enough pain to wake them up.
DeleteI hope you're wrong. I don't want to see my children hit rock bottom.
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