I've seen a lot debunking of this story... by some people high up.
But it was brought to light by Ben Rich in his book, so ya gotta respect that.
So I'd don't know if its true or
not.
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Subject: RE: [Ferrari] SR-71
And the SR woulda been correctly named an RS if Uncle Lyndon B hadn’t “Joe Bidden”ed it up at the unveiling.
DOUG
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Subject: Re: [Ferrari] SR-71
Kelly Johnson built that one too... but its a U2, not an SR
Clyde's right. It took a huge effort to get Kelly Johnson a ride... And he built the thing.
The only civilians that ever flew in the SR series to include the A-11/12 were CIA or NASA guys
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Hearing about the Russians attempt to shoot down (or just catch) a SR71
was amazing - by the time the SR71 appeared on the radar and they *started* to launch aircraft, the SR71 was long gone. It's hard to comprehend how fast 2500mph (or more if needed) actually is.
A while back a SR71 took one of the British "Top Gear" guys was given a ride. Seems like it should have been an American (me!!) getting that incredible ride.
LarryT
On 11/26/2014 11:55 AM, clyde romero wrote:
During the Cold war, most did not know that the soviets had a dedicated fleet of MIG-25’s with a sole mission of shooting
down a SR-71 and AWACS in Europe
We used to use the SR platform as a high fast flyer masking as a FOXBAT attacking the AWACS tracks that were CAPed with F-15.
AWACS would run the retrograde ops while the F -15 tried like hell to run an intercept on FOXBAT simulator
Having been on a couple of those runs it wasn’t easy at all , especially for the AWACS crews
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Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2014 10:28 AM
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Subject: Re: [Ferrari] SR-71 Sled Driver was a great book. The new version is even better. If any of you are a fan of Sled Driver, Brian has released a new updated version of the book and both go along with "The Untouchables" which was his follow
on to the original Sled Driver. Now that I'm retired an my days of flying CAP for the SR's over the Barents are long behind me I've moved back to Northern Calif. and live very near Mr. Shul and have talked with him many times and visited his Studio/Gallery in Marysville (Just outside of Beale where the Blackbirds roosted).
Rich Graham is a great guy and we've had several conversations over the years ( I chased him down at the Pentagon an made a
HABU pitch at him in the 80s). Rich has also authored a number of books (4 or 5 now) which are all great reads if you are into this.
As I mentioned in my F1 rant, my heroes are the designers (Murray, Tyrrell, Brawn, etc) but for anyone who purports themselves as an engineer, the GOD of all modern day engineers is Kelly Johnson. He too has an autobiography just called "Kelly" but perhaps the best book regarding the A12/SR71 and all its
variants is by Kelly's protege and successor, Ben Rich simply called "Skunkworks". Ben designed the inlet spike/throat/doors on the SRs and if you don't understand what that means to the speed of the aircraft, you are truly missing a monstrous achievement from the mind of man. And it still stands today. It was a sad day when they retired the SR71s... both times.
Thanks for sharing that video, Clyde. I'll call Rich and find
out if that will be released as a DVD? It's about time I make another donation to the JT Vida foundation.
Sled Driver is a great book
But nothing like the interview
which is long on the link I sent out
It covers everything from pilot selection to mission profile bases Dets airframe performance
Most of what he says was classified at the secret level years ago
He even talks of camera resolution which was un heard of and highly classified
And great book to read on
this subject since this is what I did on another level is the the book
And yes your son is lucky indeed to see a national asset such as that everyday
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This video is available for purchase. Please contact me if you would like to purchase a dvd. Autographed copies by Richard Graham are available as well. Email me at veterantales [at] gmail.com
Richard Graham was nice enough to give us a cockpit checkout in both the pilot and RSO stations. We shot this on location at the Frontiers of Flight Museum at Love Field Dallas Texas. This simulator was used to
train every operational SR pilot before they ever set foot in the actual plane.
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