I cannot seem to copy and paste it for whatever reason, but this really is a great (and pretty short) read. A pilots story of trolling other pilots when in control of the famous SR-17 Blackbird.
Anyway, if you have a couple of minutes, enjoy.
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I'd give up both my nuts to have a ride in that beast.
Thanks Steve, and Slugg. I can't imagine how fast that must feel, but I do remember flying a Cessna 175 off the ground at Camden airport for my first take off when learning to fly years ago. As we thundered down the runway with me trying to keep the peddles even and everything else from hitting the trees lining the creek at the end of the strip and my instructor raising his voice ever so gently. "more throttle, more throttle, pull it up, pull it up you've got to clear those bloody trees and then as nwe cleared the ground the feeling of gentle slowness, noisy, gentle slowness. Nothin at all like that story.
Thanks again for the wonderful, funny story.
haha no worries mate. Good on you for learning to fly I would love to. I started laughing when I read that story and the controller says you boys have a nice day hahaha. Imagine the stories and laughter after that!
Ah the SR-71 Blackbird (my favourite plane), the fastest and (most probably) the highest flying plane ever built, and built in the 1960s by Skunkworks. Estimated top speed about 3500 kph and ceiling about 85,000 feet, it flys so high that pilots have to wear a modified kind of space suit.
It is so fast it outruns a bullet and reportedly outrun an anti-aircraft rocket fired by Libya when one was spying on them. It still holds the air speed record set about 40 years ago and most probably will until some different technology allows us to travel so much quicker than today.
Originally designed to be a bomber it was so expensive to build that only a few were built and they were used exclusively as spy planes until satellite cameras become much better. All have been de-commissioned now with one on display at the Smithsonian.