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How Slow Can An SR-71 Blackbird Fly?

Well that's one for the books. I have a brother that was a radar tech for the air force and said that thing would have azzzzzzzzz! He said his radar would cover hundreds of miles and all he would see was blip on one side and by the time the radar would come around it would be gone.
 
So fast, that, if they start out a sunrise,they
outfly the rising sun, into darkness, and catch up with the sun again, and get ahead of it !
 
It was fun in the old F4 Phantom!! to take off from Texas going west just after sunset, zoom climb in burner to 38k, and watch the sun come up again . Then maintain just under supersonic and land in San Diego with 15 minutes of daylight left.
 
Great link. I found a lot of neat stuff to look at by digging around it.
Thanks for posting it.
 
Reading the story, I couldn"t help but remember how TV stations signed off at midnite in the 50s with the Air Force promo, afterburners going, talking about the wings of man, or was it wings of God?
 
I"ve seen the SR-71 at a couple of museums.....very impressive. I remember the narrator talking about how it "stretches" in flight due to heat,....leaks on the ground. (like in the story below). Wondering if that aircraft was the one with the rear view mirror, outside of the cockpit? I think it was used to check the afterburner? Interesting to find out in this story that it can fly in a stable manner at 156 knots. Cuz as a paratrooper, I had numerous jumps out of a C130 at 140 knots......about 160 mph. I remember when the AF started using the C141 Starlifter, trying to safely jump under 200 mph. Had to add to the static line so jet heat wouldn"t melt the line......circa mid 60s. Joked about the drop zone would be from Alabama to Mississippi! But, hey, we always enjoyed that Southern Hospitality- wherever we landed!
 
Bossman has a vertical stabilizer from one of them hanging up in his garage. I think its from the one in the museum in one of the links in this thread. That pic looks awful familiar to me.
 
they claim the concord was 9 inches longer in flight then on the ground,..can only imagine how much longer the sr71 got
 
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