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04-28-06, 07:25
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Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Arlington, TX Posts: 25,603 | I've seen them perform 2-3 times, just awesome each time. The C-130 JATO (jet assisted take-off) demo is also incredibly cool. 
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04-28-06, 09:07
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Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Wake Forest, NC Posts: 154 | A few years ago, in Reading PA, they must have been using our office building as a reference point. They were making their turns repeatedly right over our parking lot. You could see the pilot's face behind his shield. VERY cool! One of the guys in the office was a retired navy fighter pilot, we couldn't pull him away from the window! | |
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04-28-06, 09:10
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Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Thousand Oaks, Ca Posts: 4,519 | Quote: |
Originally Posted by John Styrnol Got to see an SR-71 back in the late 80s. | John, some of us arent that old to even know what a Sr-71 is.
J/K....I too, got to see one at a local airshow.....To this day, I still think it is he most awesome plane ever built......
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04-28-06, 11:00
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Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: NJ Posts: 3,882 | Quote: |
Originally Posted by a.k.a. Patrick To this day, I still think it is he most awesome plane ever built...... | There's an awesome documentary on the History Channel about it. What a marvel of engineering. I believe it is the only US aircraft used in hostile environments that has never been shot down.
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04-28-06, 11:39
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Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Marietta, GA Posts: 397 | Nice, I've been watching them at school all week. Did you hear that the traffic centers were getting calls for downed planes yesterday?  My favorite move is the 60* angle attack. That is just insane, I bet they're pulling some massive gs.
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04-28-06, 11:51
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Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Layton, UT Posts: 4,304 | Quote: |
Originally Posted by Scottwax I've seen them perform 2-3 times, just awesome each time. The C-130 JATO (jet assisted take-off) demo is also incredibly cool.
Great pics Mike, thanks for sharing them! | When I worked at McClellan got to see/hear these (C-130) all day long, LOL
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04-28-06, 11:53
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Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Layton, UT Posts: 4,304 | Quote: |
Originally Posted by a.k.a. Patrick John, some of us arent that old to even know what a Sr-71 is.
J/K....I too, got to see one at a local airshow.....To this day, I still think it is he most awesome plane ever built...... | They were around in the 60s.
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04-28-06, 11:55
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Originally Posted by Spilchy There's an awesome documentary on the History Channel about it. What a marvel of engineering. I believe it is the only US aircraft used in hostile environments that has never been shot down. | I believe it can go up to 80,000 ft. It was used often in Desert Storm, with A-10s, F-111s, F-16s. All I get to see nowadays are F-16s all day long.
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04-28-06, 12:26
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Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: New Castle, IN Posts: 904 | I got to climb all over an SR 71 @ the museum in Hutchinson KS a few years ago. Buddy of mine knew someone there. It was back in a storage shed, partially dismantled.
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04-28-06, 04:11
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Join Date: May 2004 Location: Honolulu, HI Posts: 1,463 | nice pics mike. i think it's been 10 years since i last saw the blue angels. and just a couple years ago when i saw the thunderbirds. nothing like hearing the roar of jet fighter engines to swell your patriotism. now that's the sound of freedom! 
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04-28-06, 04:56
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Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: OH Posts: 1,125 | I saw them last year at an air show. They were truely amazing. Fat Albert was also pretty freakin' awesome!
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05-01-06, 05:22
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Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Dacula, Ga Posts: 389 | When I was stationed on Okinawa ('83 & '84), we had two SR-71s. I watched them take off numerous times. We had an air show one year and I got within a couple feet of one, they really are an awesome looking machine.
When I was a kid on Long Island, Grumman was a big outfit not far from where I lived. We would get sonic booms now and then. One time, while I was playing outside I heard jets flying really low, I looked up and saw the blue and gold of the Angels flying right over me (I might have been six or seven). | |
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