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Historic Aircraft Recovery and Preservation => Post WWII Civilian Aircraft and Spacecraft topics => Topic started by: Kurt Kummer on November 19, 2020, 09:57:28 PM

Title: Lockheed SR-71
Post by: Kurt Kummer on November 19, 2020, 09:57:28 PM

Another Lockheed aircraft story. Hope you enjoy it.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nuAZfKSvvg

Title: Re: Lockheed SR-71
Post by: Don White on November 21, 2020, 01:44:14 PM

I saw the last public flight of the SR-71 at the Farnborough Air Show in 1992.

Don White

Title: Re: Lockheed SR-71
Post by: Kurt Kummer on December 02, 2020, 09:27:06 PM

Wow, how cool that must've been to see the SR-71 at Farnborough!  Did you get to see it fly?  That would have been amazing.  The closest I ever got was at the Cosmosphere in Hutchinson, KS.

Title: Re: Lockheed SR-71
Post by: Don White on December 03, 2020, 06:02:38 PM

They did a full power take off, holding it with the brakes and then releasing them and shooting like a rocket. It made the earth shake when they ran up the engines. What a beast.

Don