I like the Q&A time at the end. People ask some interesting questions that are not answered during the lecture time. Neat stuff and thanks for sharing.
The SR-71 is my favorite aircraft. Maybe not as heavily armed as the Eagle but it's gonna sneak up on them MiGs real quiet-like and shoot them with its camera. My neighbor is an old F-4 Phantom pilot. He saw a little action in Vietnam. I keep telling him to write a book. He had his share of close calls and narrow escapes from MiGs. These are my 3 favorite aviation books: - Her Majesty's Top Gun by Sharkey Ward - A Reluctant Warrior by Kenneth Volker - Great Fighter Jets of the Galaxy 1 by Tim Gibson
I'm curious if you're aware of the SR-71 that had to make an emergency landing at March base I think it happened in 1967 might have been 68 at the time my dad had all the concessions for the barbershops on the base I was only about 8 years old but I remember walking around the plane after it made its emergency landing. From everything I remember from this incident the aircraft was doing high altitude testing and hidden updraft and was being told by the radar to level out but the pilot was claiming he was only at 78,000 ft when in fact he was hitting the outskirts of the atmosphere and nearly flamed out the engine's except for the oxygen torch that helps keep them lit the aircraft appear to have done a light reentry as the windshield was completely filled with blister bubbles and a rivets on the wings were showing blistering as long with leading edges and all tips and tails I remember one of the tires caught fire after it landed they had that put out in everybody was just doing and eyeing walking around the plane and amazed that it didn't just burn up after nearly making an astronautical flight to outer space. I will never forget seeing those blistered rivets and other parts on that aircraft even though I was just 8 years old that whole day is still vivid with memories.
Your memory is playing tricks on you, in 1967 these planes were very closely guarded inside hangers that no 8 year old could never have gained access to no matter how many barbers his dad knew, I can guarantee you that you were never anywhere near an SR71 in 1967. Also there's quite a bit wrong with your statement, first off despite how high the SR71 could fly it couldn't get anywhere even close to being able to leave the earth's atmosphere, not even close, also there's no sort of torch or anything like that involved in lighting the engine's, they were ignited, along with the afterburners, by a volatile chemical called TEB that ignites and burns very hot the moment it's exposed to oxygen, the crews that filled the onboard tank with TEB had to wear special protective suits when handling it, it's used to start the engine's on the ground and ignite the afterburners in flight, the SR71 had a tank that held just enough TEB for 16 shots, usually 1 shot would lite the engine's maybe 2 which left 14 to 15 shots to lite the afterburners while in flight, after that the afterburners couldn't be lit and the SR71 wouldn't exceed approximately Mach 2.6. Neither you nor your father would have been able to get anywhere near an SR71 in 1967, it wasn't shown to the public until 1974 at an airshow, prior to that LBJ had acknowledged it's existence in the mid 60's but no images were even shown of it until it's debut at the 1974 airshow, prior to that no one outside of the program knew what it looked like, you were no where near it at age 8 in 1967 because your dad supplied on post barber shops, Air Force general's that didn't have clearance from being a part of the program couldn't get near one of them. What you saw was a rocket powered X15 and your memory is playing tricks on you making you believe it was an SR71, there might have been an emergency landing of an SR71 at March and it was all the talk around the place and sometime around the same time there was an X15 that was going around on a promotional tour, the time frame for that would be right because the last X15 flight was in 1967, at that point they'd gathered all the research data they'd wanted from flying them and shut down that program and took a couple on tour, X15's weren't secret since they were research aircraft, the public knew about them from day one and anytime they're done with something like that they liked to take them around and show them off to the public so people could be impressed and see what they're tax dollars were being spent on, the government loved showing off stuff like that. What you describe from it's edge of the atmosphere flight to the blisters and damaged windshield perfectly fits the X15, their Mach 6 speed far exceeded the SR71's Mach 3.3 speed and they routinely flew on the edge of the atmosphere with several specially modified one's actually leaving the atmosphere and suffering severe paint damage that blistered up upon re-entry along with the layers of glass in their windshield delaminating, matter of fact the pilots who flew the specially modified X15's that actually did leave the atmosphere are the only non astronauts that are authorized to wear astronaut wings. Your description perfectly fits an X15 but not an SR71, it was impossible for it to fly anywhere even close to the edge of the atmosphere, and though your description fits what was undoubtedly an X15 that you saw the actual story one getting "accidently" above the atmosphere isn't what you remember or think you do anyway, this is another case of your memory playing tricks on you, there are no updrafts at that altitude and with the air that thin one couldn't have any effect on anything anyway even if there was, the story you heard that has you believing what you do is the famous story of Neil Armstrong's X15 flight when due to a miscalculation wound up high enough that he skipped across the atmosphere sending him over LA and almost so far downrange on his flight he almost couldn't make it back to Edward's to land.
I like the Q&A time at the end. People ask some interesting questions that are not answered during the lecture time. Neat stuff and thanks for sharing.
We have an SR71 Blackbird with its J58 engines out and placed at the side of the aircraft over in the UK at Duxford air museum Cambridgeshire
this guy's a STUD. And his plane is the greatest air vehicle ever created.
The SR-71 is my favorite aircraft. Maybe not as heavily armed as the Eagle but it's gonna sneak up on them MiGs real quiet-like and shoot them with its camera.
My neighbor is an old F-4 Phantom pilot. He saw a little action in Vietnam. I keep telling him to write a book. He had his share of close calls and narrow escapes from MiGs.
These are my 3 favorite aviation books:
- Her Majesty's Top Gun by Sharkey Ward
- A Reluctant Warrior by Kenneth Volker
- Great Fighter Jets of the Galaxy 1 by Tim Gibson
Very nice lecture, thank you for posting it.
xlnt . Glad you helped me find Reg . at march afb. symposium.
Interesting video and interviews
Nice work.
I'm curious if you're aware of the SR-71 that had to make an emergency landing at March base I think it happened in 1967 might have been 68 at the time my dad had all the concessions for the barbershops on the base I was only about 8 years old but I remember walking around the plane after it made its emergency landing.
From everything I remember from this incident the aircraft was doing high altitude testing and hidden updraft and was being told by the radar to level out but the pilot was claiming he was only at 78,000 ft when in fact he was hitting the outskirts of the atmosphere and nearly flamed out the engine's except for the oxygen torch that helps keep them lit the aircraft appear to have done a light reentry as the windshield was completely filled with blister bubbles and a rivets on the wings were showing blistering as long with leading edges and all tips and tails I remember one of the tires caught fire after it landed they had that put out in everybody was just doing and eyeing walking around the plane and amazed that it didn't just burn up after nearly making an astronautical flight to outer space.
I will never forget seeing those blistered rivets and other parts on that aircraft even though I was just 8 years old that whole day is still vivid with memories.
Your memory is playing tricks on you, in 1967 these planes were very closely guarded inside hangers that no 8 year old could never have gained access to no matter how many barbers his dad knew, I can guarantee you that you were never anywhere near an SR71 in 1967.
Also there's quite a bit wrong with your statement, first off despite how high the SR71 could fly it couldn't get anywhere even close to being able to leave the earth's atmosphere, not even close, also there's no sort of torch or anything like that involved in lighting the engine's, they were ignited, along with the afterburners, by a volatile chemical called TEB that ignites and burns very hot the moment it's exposed to oxygen, the crews that filled the onboard tank with TEB had to wear special protective suits when handling it, it's used to start the engine's on the ground and ignite the afterburners in flight, the SR71 had a tank that held just enough TEB for 16 shots, usually 1 shot would lite the engine's maybe 2 which left 14 to 15 shots to lite the afterburners while in flight, after that the afterburners couldn't be lit and the SR71 wouldn't exceed approximately Mach 2.6.
Neither you nor your father would have been able to get anywhere near an SR71 in 1967, it wasn't shown to the public until 1974 at an airshow, prior to that LBJ had acknowledged it's existence in the mid 60's but no images were even shown of it until it's debut at the 1974 airshow, prior to that no one outside of the program knew what it looked like, you were no where near it at age 8 in 1967 because your dad supplied on post barber shops, Air Force general's that didn't have clearance from being a part of the program couldn't get near one of them.
What you saw was a rocket powered X15 and your memory is playing tricks on you making you believe it was an SR71, there might have been an emergency landing of an SR71 at March and it was all the talk around the place and sometime around the same time there was an X15 that was going around on a promotional tour, the time frame for that would be right because the last X15 flight was in 1967, at that point they'd gathered all the research data they'd wanted from flying them and shut down that program and took a couple on tour, X15's weren't secret since they were research aircraft, the public knew about them from day one and anytime they're done with something like that they liked to take them around and show them off to the public so people could be impressed and see what they're tax dollars were being spent on, the government loved showing off stuff like that.
What you describe from it's edge of the atmosphere flight to the blisters and damaged windshield perfectly fits the X15, their Mach 6 speed far exceeded the SR71's Mach 3.3 speed and they routinely flew on the edge of the atmosphere with several specially modified one's actually leaving the atmosphere and suffering severe paint damage that blistered up upon re-entry along with the layers of glass in their windshield delaminating, matter of fact the pilots who flew the specially modified X15's that actually did leave the atmosphere are the only non astronauts that are authorized to wear astronaut wings.
Your description perfectly fits an X15 but not an SR71, it was impossible for it to fly anywhere even close to the edge of the atmosphere, and though your description fits what was undoubtedly an X15 that you saw the actual story one getting "accidently" above the atmosphere isn't what you remember or think you do anyway, this is another case of your memory playing tricks on you, there are no updrafts at that altitude and with the air that thin one couldn't have any effect on anything anyway even if there was, the story you heard that has you believing what you do is the famous story of Neil Armstrong's X15 flight when due to a miscalculation wound up high enough that he skipped across the atmosphere sending him over LA and almost so far downrange on his flight he almost couldn't make it back to Edward's to land.
Very much enjoyed the discussion! May I ask, who was the Gentleman who spoke? Obviously a former SR-71 pilot. Thx for the video.
Bill Roberts col james h Shelton jr
Very interesting
Is this the one at the Smithsonian Dulles Airport?
This was at March Field or March ARB Museum in Riverside, Ca.
Here's all of them: www.sr71.us/Supp_BBook.htm
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