Really? OK I’ve seen the yellow spiral wound handles on seats – so could that be the up up and away trigger? I’ve read that the SR71 guys hook their heels into a cable so at escape – the feet are pulled back – or so I read. No button eh? Oh – my next door neighbor told me about a few changes the F104 made – if the pilot had to exit the plane at take off the ejection seat shot them into the run way. Bad for morale. Eventually changed to exit “UP” not down. They used some sort of JATO rocket that would compress the piolet for a few months – but it got them out of the plane. DOUG From: Clyde Romero [mailto:clyderomerof4 [at] bellsouth.net]
Sent: Thursday, November 27, 2014 5:11 AM
To: Doug & Terri
Cc: The FerrariList
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] SR-71 There is NO EJECTION BUTTON ANYWHERE ON ANY AIRPLANE THAT HAS AN EJECTION SEAT In victory you deserve Champagne Scars are Tattoos with better stories ! If you follow all the rules Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail ( including attachments ) is covered by the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, 18 U. S. C., Sections 2510-2521, and is intended only for the persons or entity to which it is addressed, and may contain confidential or privileged material. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, dissemination, copying, forwarding or distribution is prohibited. This email transmission, and any documents, files or previous email messages attached to it, may contain confidential information that is priviledged. If you are not the intended recipient, or a person responsible for delivering it to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of the information containes in or attached to this message is STRICTLY PROHIBITED. If you have received this transmission in error, please immediately notify us by reply e-mail at Clyde.romero [at] yahoo.com or by telephone at (678 6419932)and destroy the original transmission and its attachments without reading them or saving them to disk. Aardvark – ever see how the pilot and co-pilot escape? To escape, they initiate a ‘let’s get outta here” button which punches out a section of the airplane which is the whole cabin. With sections of the chine (?) acting as winglets, they fly the sucka home – well, for a while. DOUG
From: Rick Moseley [mailto:ramosel [at] pacbell.net]
Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2014 7:15 PM
To: Doug & Terri
Cc: The FerrariList
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] SR-71 Soviet SAMs. SAMs forced them into a flight profile they weren't suited for. And thus the birth of the F-111 Cool – one of my favorites Clyde. I also have a Mach meter for this puppy. Love the ‘clam shell’ escape pods. What knocked off the B-58? ICBM’s. Curse them DOUG
Call out to the Pima museum The stuff on the SR came out of the B-58 which was a Mach 2 bomber My favorite plane which got me into the Air Force, a little to late to fly it but she was my baby <image001.jpg> In victory you deserve Champagne Scars are Tattoos with better stories ! If you follow all the rules Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail ( including attachments ) is covered by the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, 18 U. S. C., Sections 2510-2521, and is intended only for the persons or entity to which it is addressed, and may contain confidential or privileged material. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, dissemination, copying, forwarding or distribution is prohibited. This email transmission, and any documents, files or previous email messages attached to it, may contain confidential information that is priviledged. If you are not the intended recipient, or a person responsible for delivering it to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of the information containes in or attached to this message is STRICTLY PROHIBITED. If you have received this transmission in error, please immediately notify us by reply e-mail at Clyde.romero [at] yahoo.com or by telephone at (678 6419932)and destroy the original transmission and its attachments without reading them or saving them to disk. I watched Clyde’s video – hmmm, I have an SR-71 airspeed / Mach indicator (most likely the same for the F104) and would like to get the “triple gauge.” The REAL speedometer. Heck – I’d like to get a clock – now THOSE have to be generic. Any ideas? I’ll entertain any thots except those from Clyde who’d most likely say that I have a chance finding one of those on the open market as I do looking in my ass. Ohhhh, that Clyde – we got your number. Heh heh DOUG Clyde's right. It took a huge effort to get Kelly Johnson a ride... And he built the thing.
Total Bullshit The only civilians that ever flew in the SR series to include the A-11/12 were CIA or NASA guys In victory you deserve Champagne In defeat you need it! ![http://gallery.mailchimp.com/d50199eadaa3846040c76511e/images/Screen_shot_2013_05_29_at_9.18.02_AM.png]() <image001.gif>
<image002.jpg> Scars are tattoos with better stories! Clyde Romero Clyderomerof4 [at] bellsouth.net. 678 6419932 Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail ( including attachments ) is covered by the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, 18 U. S. C., Sections 2510-2521, and is intended only for the persons or entity to which it is addressed, and may contain confidential or privileged material. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, dissemination, copying, forwarding or distribution is prohibited. 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 Glad that shit is over In victory you deserve Champagne In defeat you need it! ![http://gallery.mailchimp.com/d50199eadaa3846040c76511e/images/Screen_shot_2013_05_29_at_9.18.02_AM.png]() <image001.gif>
<image002.jpg> Scars are tattoos with better stories! Clyde Romero Clyderomerof4 [at] bellsouth.net. 678 6419932 Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail ( including attachments ) is covered by the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, 18 U. S. C., Sections 2510-2521, and is intended only for the persons or entity to which it is addressed, and may contain confidential or privileged material. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, dissemination, copying, forwarding or distribution is prohibited. From: Rick Moseley [mailto:ramosel [at] pacbell.net]
Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2014 10:28 AM
To: Clyde Romero
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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 In victory you deserve Champagne Scars are Tattoos with better stories ! If you follow all the rules Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail ( including attachments ) is covered by the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, 18 U. S. C., Sections 2510-2521, and is intended only for the persons or entity to which it is addressed, and may contain confidential or privileged material. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, dissemination, copying, forwarding or distribution is prohibited. This email transmission, and any documents, files or previous email messages attached to it, may contain confidential information that is priviledged. If you are not the intended recipient, or a person responsible for delivering it to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of the information containes in or attached to this message is STRICTLY PROHIBITED. If you have received this transmission in error, please immediately notify us by reply e-mail at Clyde.romero [at] yahoo.com or by telephone at (678 6419932)and destroy the original transmission and its attachments without reading them or saving them to disk. If you get bored this holiday season, I highly recommend reading “Sled Driver”. very lucky to live just a few miles down the road from 60-6930, one of the original A12s from the program, my son sees it 2x a day going to and from school... | neat stuff, but very basic |
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.
Here is he link to the entire interview I did with Rich. I hope you like it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeBu6mRDaro&feature=c4-overview&list=UUYYT43aHuHaVcdbuJ4YYCjw |
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