SR-71 The Sled Driver..

[y2blade]

mikeday1991 said:

Managed to pick up a copy online for £30... Not sure of what edition it is, but it'll be fantastic to put on the shelf!

It's a great read too!

[Hooli]

trickywoo said:

Hooli said:

That's what the Frightening did best, stand on it's arse & climb like a rocket with the reheat engaged.

Little known fact that the Lightning was only fitted with wings to separate the nav lights.

I can believe that

[pete]

crazy about cars said:

Nice find indeed It could be just me that's paranoid but my AV picked up an outgoing communication when I opened the file. I've read a few pages but noticed spelling errors and typos which I find a bit weird for a published book.

I suspect it has been scanned and then the text pages run through OCR software to pull down the file size. That would introduce a few errors.

[crazy about cars]

pete said:

I suspect it has been scanned and then the text pages run through OCR software to pull down the file size. That would introduce a few errors.

Ah fair enough - thanks for the explanation Just a bit paranoid downloading files randomly from the internet

[mikeday1991]

Gentlemen, it has arrived



Somebody has signed it... can anybody make out who it is?

[karona]

Another great article here
http://www.barthworks.com/aviation/sr71breakup.htm
Links to more at the bottom.

[chris116]

karona said:

Another great article here
http://www.barthworks.com/aviation/sr71breakup.htm
Links to more at the bottom.

Found this in one of the links, rather ironic.

Article said:

Initial orders for American sources of titanium were found not to be pure enough, so the US ordered titanium from the USSR which was pure enough to make the alloy. Fortunately, the Russians never discovered that the titanium they sold to the US during the Cold War was being used to build the SR-71s that would spy on them.

[Eric Mc]

Reading about the A-12 operations at the moment - a fairly less well known story.

[Dr JonboyG]

I posted these links in the other SR-71 thread, figure they might be appreciated here if people hadn't seen them:

RoadRunners Internationale: http://www.roadrunnersinternationale.com/

Former pilots and crew share their stories. A great way to waste several hours.

The CIA declassified their OXCART files:

http://www.foia.cia.gov/collection/12-oxcart-recon...
http://www.foia.cia.gov/sites/default/files/DOC_00...

And they also published a monograph on the plane:

https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-o... (there's also a PDF version, https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-o...

[RizzoTheRat]

Just discovered that a mate at work has a copy of Sled driver that he bought second hand for £13! Bassad!

[anonymous-user]

Some peeps might have already seen this:

SR-71 Pilot Interview Richard Graham Veteran Tales on YouTube


No new info, but a nice one to one discussion on RG's SR-71 program experiences etc

[arcamalpha]

Just received my copy yesterday. Well worth the cost and the wait. Good stories with stunning pictures.

[fatboy69]

£1.99.......

Seems a good quality model to me. Added to the other model planes that swmbo doesn't know about!!!!!




Upside down - why does it do that? Anyone able to turn it the correct way up please?

[Dr G]

[Supercilious Sid]

neil_bolton said:

That's as explained by Rich Graham in his books - to all intents and purposes, you've dropped off the face of the earth at FL600 as it's referred to.

Rich Graham is currently in the country giving talks about the Blackbird. It's a fascinating presentation and well worth seeking out if he comes near you.