Ron - SR-71

[98Z5V]

@Rsquared, thought you'd like this one, brother.  This is badass as all hell...  

 

[shepp]

The U2 is going to be at EAA this year, I’m hoping to see it fly. 

[Rsquared]

Cooler than cool. That is, still today, a very impressive aircraft.

[Armed Eye Doc]

There is/was one on the USS Intrepid museum in NYC.  It is a very cool place to visit.  There are planes from multiple eras available for viewing there.  There is/was one of the space shuttles on a nearby barge as well.  It's been over 20 years since I have been though.  It would be much better if it weren't in NY.

[Rsquared]

Yes. An old friend of mine used to work for the Smithsonian restoring aircraft. He got me and some other buddies into the old Garber facility over a weekend one time. We were able to just wonder around at out own pace and actually crawl around inside a bunch of their old warbirds. We even got to go through their environmentally controlled vault storing the old Apollo space suits. He said that they called that room the morgue cause the way it looked with the suits laid out on slabs. A very cool day.

[shooterrex]

21 minutes ago, Armed Eye Doc said:

There is/was one on the USS Intrepid museum in NYC.  It is a very cool place to visit.  There are planes from multiple eras available for viewing there.  There is/was one of the space shuttles on a nearby barge as well.  It's been over 20 years since I have been though.  It would be much better if it weren't in NY.

The Air and Space mesuem by Dulles airport has a SR71 and a Space shuttle in it. Lots of other really cool planes.

The Enola Gay is also there.

Much better place to visit than NY city. 

[392heminut]

I've seen two of them, one at the Pima Air and Space Museum in Tucson AZ and the other at the Kansas Cosmosphere in Hutchinson KS. The Cosmosphere also has an Apollo era Lunar Excursion Module and Lunar Rover on display together. They are the ones who did all the Apollo mockups for the Apollo 13 movie.

[Sisco]

Used to have an A12, the CIA version of the SR 71,  on display at the Minneapolis ANG museum, but it got moved years ago. Enjoyed inspecting it.

[Sisco]

A picture of the A 12 that was at the Minneapolis ANG museum.

[98Z5V]

3 hours ago, Sisco said:

A picture of the A 12 that was at the Minneapolis ANG museum.

A12 Oxcart was the shiit!  The predecessor, and identical to the SR71.  It's weird, how small the aircraft really is, in person - and how gimundous it looks in pics on the 'net.  I stood under one in a Seattle museum, just like in the pic above.  Before that, in my mind, that nosecone was like 18 feet off the ground!  Nope.  It's not a huge aircraft.  It's shocking how small it really is.

[Rsquared]

 

[Rsquared]

Another angle.

 

[Cunuckgaucho]

You know any of the Russian pilots would give both kidneys and their liver for the chance to fly the SR-71. 

[98Z5V]

The SR-71 Pilot and Navigator BAITED those fuqrs...  

[dpete]

5 hours ago, 98Z5V said:

The SR-71 Pilot and Navigator BAITED those fuqrs...  

Yep.    Umm..............byeeee!

[Magwa]

Beep Beep.........Zooooooom

[Traveler]

Saw them reasonably up close a few times at Kadeana Air Force Base on Okinawa. Watching them take off and land was some cool shyte to young Marines!

Fkn outrageous funny Blackbird story

[98Z5V]

5 hours ago, Traveler said:

Saw them reasonably up close a few times at Kadeana Air Force Base on Okinawa.

Man, I LOVE Oki...   

[Traveler]

11 hours ago, 98Z5V said:

Man, I LOVE Oki...   

Best chow halls in the service! At the time ('84 -88) five chow halls and we were quartered closest to one that had surf and turf on a regular basis - weekly? Best part was we had chow hall passes, we could to any CH we wanted and didn't pay a thing. Needless to say, the surf and turf nights, the Air Force CH system lost money!

Don't get me started on Whisper alley and all that other shyte....