Comments on: A must-read http://www.yourish.com/2008/03/09/4509 Cutting straight to the point Fri, 19 Mar 2010 07:39:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Mark http://www.yourish.com/2008/03/09/4509/comment-page-1#comment-31212 Mark Tue, 11 Mar 2008 00:27:53 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2008/03/09/4509#comment-31212 Used to love to see the Blackbird at the airshows at Offutt as a kid. Man, loud is an understatement. Used to love to see the Blackbird at the airshows at Offutt as a kid. Man, loud is an understatement.

]]> By: Michael Lonie http://www.yourish.com/2008/03/09/4509/comment-page-1#comment-31199 Michael Lonie Mon, 10 Mar 2008 04:20:53 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2008/03/09/4509#comment-31199 When the SR-71 was finally allowed a public appearance at Farnborough Air Show (in the early 80s I think) the plane broke the world speed record flying across the Atlantic. While there it took off, and returned thirty minutes later with photos of Land's End at the southwest tip of Britain and of the farthest northern point of Scotland. Then it broke the speed record going home that it had set crossing to Britain. And the worst of it was, for the Soviets, that this airplane was based on early 60s technology (first one completed in 1962). They had to be thinking "What have the Americans got now, twenty years later?" When the SR-71 was finally allowed a public appearance at Farnborough Air Show (in the early 80s I think) the plane broke the world speed record flying across the Atlantic. While there it took off, and returned thirty minutes later with photos of Land’s End at the southwest tip of Britain and of the farthest northern point of Scotland. Then it broke the speed record going home that it had set crossing to Britain.

And the worst of it was, for the Soviets, that this airplane was based on early 60s technology (first one completed in 1962). They had to be thinking “What have the Americans got now, twenty years later?”

]]> By: John M. http://www.yourish.com/2008/03/09/4509/comment-page-1#comment-31195 John M. Mon, 10 Mar 2008 00:47:03 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2008/03/09/4509#comment-31195 Wow, that is pretty good. I once flew over Gibraltar and Sicily in a C-130 on my way from the Azores to Saudi Arabia, and it took like three hours. Sounds like he did it in a few minutes. That plane was specifically designed to outrun the SA-2. Wow, that is pretty good. I once flew over Gibraltar and Sicily in a C-130 on my way from the Azores to Saudi Arabia, and it took like three hours. Sounds like he did it in a few minutes.

That plane was specifically designed to outrun the SA-2.

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