Started "flying" at about age 7, flown many types of general aviation planes. One I always wanted to fly was the OV-10 Bronco, looked like it would be a blast. Watched many of them in action in Nam, thye could do some amazing things with them.
I think we have kinda hijacked this thread! I have thousands of pics from all the times at Oshkosh, once at Sun & Fun and many other airshows. I used to be President of Oklahoma Pilots Association years ago. We took GA planes to Will Rogers several times for the Aerospace America.
Wife worked with a lady who's husband was an Air Force flightline firefighter at Mildenhall AFB in England where the Blackbird flew out of.This is one of my favorites:
https://www.cnn.com/style/article/sr-71-blackbird-spy-plane-design/index.html
According to the video in the above article; the aircraft flies faster than an M1 Garand bullet (SR-71 top speed 2193.2 miles per hour converts to more than 3216.69333 feet per second; the M1 muzzle velocity is 2800 feet per second).
I used this calculator:
https://www.inchcalculator.com/convert/mile-per-hour-to-foot-per-second/
According to this website, there are 30 on display:
https://www.sr-71.org/blackbird/locations.php#oregon
I have visited 10 -- 19 to go, don’t think I’m going to make it to Duxford, England; But -- Never Say Never !!!!
I knew a guy who flew those things in the Pink Teams in Vietnam. Dude could flat-out spin a tale, but he had enough photographic evidence that you couldn't tell which were true and which were windies.Let us not forget the loose assemblages of aeronautical parts all moving in the same general direction.
I knew a guy who flew those things in the Pink Teams in Vietnam. Dude could flat-out spin a tale, but he had enough photographic evidence that you couldn't tell which were true and which were windies.
A few years ago, I got to know a guy who had recently retired from the service, and one of the few things I tried to talk him out of (and utterly failed at) was a squadron patch for (IIRC) a Pink Team unit that was flying in the sandbox. I can't recall the unit designation, but their patch said "we see dead people." It was a freaking cool patch, too.
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