Viet Nam (SR-71) pilot - long format interview

[AJMD429]

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Was very interesting.

https://youtu.be/OZCCTyDGXrw

War has changed in many ways, but still the same in many ways

[Paladin]

Thanks

[Grizz]

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Was very interesting.

https://youtu.be/OZCCTyDGXrw

War has changed in many ways, but still the same in many ways

REVIEWED IT. Great flight stories. I love hanger-talk. At the end he makes a few comments, starting around 2:06:49
where he says the SR was de-funded because of the Graham-Rudman-Act "cost saving mandate".
He explained how "they" would set up and fund, say, a new building, and cancel it when
the budget was approved, and they called that a cost-saving. thus, the slime goes back
a long, long ways. He notes that the cost of one K-12 spy satellite would have funded the
SR program until 2050, and insists that it didn't run out of money. It ran into "cost-saving."
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the disappointment for me is to realize that the United States of America is a ponzi-scheme
that's at least as old as I am.
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swamp sucks,
grizz
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[GunnyMack]

I was lucky to get to see the Blackbird back at the Reno Air Races in 86. The national anthem playing , everyone standing in the bleachers , hands over their hearts and here comes the Bird on the deck out of the sun right over the field just below the speed of sound. Then it turned and made a slow pass, turned around again made a 3rd pass and at the end of the field he yanked back on the stick while adding power going almost vertical until the after burner cans were tiny dots of light. I won't soon forget it!

[stretch]

WOW!!!

VERY entertaining interview with someone who knew what he was talking about.

I went through it in one sitting, more or less. Fascinating stuff.

I spent 2 years on Okinawa in the early 80s, and saw both RF4Cs and SR-71s all the time.

-Stretch

[Grizz]

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Was very interesting.

https://youtu.be/OZCCTyDGXrw

War has changed in many ways, but still the same in many ways

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkyVZxtsubM this an animation of the SR systems and functions. It's a good adjunct to the interview, helps to see what the SR driver is seeing in his memories . . .