Friday, 21 January 2011

the Blackbird

Continuing on a military slant, came across quite a few posts on the Lockheed Martin SR-71 Blackbird.

This aircraft was the creme de la creme of its time, and still holds records in speed til this day (march 3!), so it was nice to read some 'behind the scenes' type of stories, like this one from a pilot about flying it (into Libya?!), and this one from a pilot about a training excercise (and the art of speaking softly but flying fastest).

Best picture so far has to come from Lockheed Martin themselves.

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