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Did you know? The SR-71 needed special OIL for the engine: then finding a leak in the hydraulic fluid required the special maintenance. The oil needed to be warmed up!  The following was recently written by SR-71 Pilot, Stormy Boudreaux. MIL-L-8700 this was uniquely different,

President Trump, JD, Vance and Pete Hegseth all salute while the Star-Spangled Banner plays at Arlington National Cemetery. This is what I voted for.

EXCUSE ME, DO YOU HAVE A DINGY STABBER I CAN BORROW? "Look in the left side of the window of this SR-71. You will see a dingy stabber". This is just a six-inch long flat piece of metal with a pointed end, and used for puncturing life rafts should they inflate accidentally in

Shadow SR-71 One of the SR 71 ’s clever defense tools was a deception jammer. It was an ingenious device that absorbed and memorized an enemy radar signal as it hit the SR 71 then sent back a radar signal similar to the SR but stronger and projected it away from the airplane .

SR 71 in flight over Okinawa🔥🔥

White Bird? Using a law of thermodynamics Ben Rich tried to convinced Kelly Johnson to paint the A-12 Black. It was very rare when Kelly Johnson admitted he was wrong. Overnight, however, he apparently had second thoughts, or did some textbook reading on his own, and at the next

Shadow SR-71 One of the SR 71 ’s clever defense tools was a deception jammer. It was an ingenious device that absorbed and memorized an enemy radar signal as it hit the SR 71 then sent back a radar signal similar to the SR but stronger and projected it away from the airplane .

Is a flameout and an unstart the same thing? SR 71 pilot David Peters answered…Linda Sheffield Miller: no, they are not the same. An unstart is what Lockheed terms an aerodynamic disturbance. That is when the shock wave escapes the inlet for any particular reason. A flame-out

I was just in the right place at the right time as a teenager growing up at Beale Air Force Base. I was often in the home of Jerry O’Malley, Harlan Hain, and Ed Payne, along with my parents, Butch and Rosie Sheffield. They were my role models. This picture from the book

Part two of the article I wrote for Evergreen Museum for the upcoming Father’s Day symposium that I am going to with my grandson and my husband. SR-71 Pilots: A Daughter’s Perspective (CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS PAGE) Once you passed all the tests, you had the “Bar” test. They

WIND TUNNEL TEST OF INLETS The inlet configuration, operational performance, and bypass control pressure schedules were developed during a test conducted over seven weeks at the NASA Ames Unitary Wind Tunnels at Moffett Field, California. The inlet configuration was developed

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Title Tanker Save SR-71 Artist Peter Chilelli Medium Digital Art Description The SR -71 had to be refueled at least once every 90 minutes The crewmembers depended on the tankers for their very lives. The Tankers were primarily KC 135Q. Their outstanding pilots and Crew never

Feel the Need for Speed this Father’s Day Weekend! I will be attending. My husband, Rodney Miller and I along with our 18-year-old grandson Camden Beck will be flying to Oregon to watch the presentation. I will be taking pictures and taking notes to report back to you. Is anybody

A short video from the movie The Blackbird Story shows the 955, the first SR-71 that my father, Butch Sheffield, flew on October 4, 1965. This was before the record books. His pilot was Pete Collins. We moved to Beale about a year later after my father finished all of the flight

This SR-71 was turning onto runway 11, Feb 4th, 1983. Pilot: Bredette B C Thomas and RSO John Morgan heading for Murmansk. My first time seeing the rudders like that. Thank you Robert Robert D Hall III Linda Sheffield