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Military channel just had the show on the SR=71. It is so funny when it says that over 4000 missles were fired at it during it's service and not ONE got even close. Big chuckle!
 
Kinda strange they decommisoned them. But I guess satellites took their place. Would be awesome to see fly over at full speed!-- yeah sonic BOOM would be an issue.
 
Yea at just a tad over three times the speed of sound you would get dual sonic booms! One of the air magazines I read, a pilot told that the faster and higher they flew the better the fuel economy! The last big hurrah flight was coast to coast and it was like just a minute over one hour! Sad they are gone. Jeffcat
 
I was stationed at Beale and was among the first people sent there to process recon film. We also spent one day helping pick up the pieces from one that crashed near the base after running out of fuel. Odd thing was it was buried in with the on-base garbage pit.
It was a honor to be involved with that program and a good base to be stationed at.
Back then secrecy meant something.
 
Saw the last flight land at Offitt air force base Omaha Nebraska and also talked to the pilots I think they mothballed it their.
 
You guys talking about sonic booms brings back memories. When I was a kid here in east central WI we would hear sonic booms during the day. Jim
 
Visited one just last Thursday at the Pima Air & Space Museum in Tucson. They have an outstanding collection of some 300 military aircraft from WW II on up to modern stuff--many nicely restored. Also of interest is the 1-hr tour of the adjacent Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group at Davis-Monthan Airfield where approx. 4,000 de-commissioned aircraft are stored. An impressive sight. Overall, I felt this visit was better than what I saw at the National Air & Space Museum at Wright-Patterson Airfield in Dayton, OH. Highly recommend it to you airplane buffs!
 

A few months back, someone who piloted one put a story on here about a time when according to he and his crewman that a missile got close. It was during the time that they were after Khadafi. He told that they had the throttles at full for something like six minutes and went well over the max speed.
 
(quoted from post at 09:50:55 12/17/13) Kinda strange they decommisoned them. But I guess satellites took their place. Would be awesome to see fly over at full speed!-- yeah sonic BOOM would be an issue.
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We were using satellites long before the SR71 was decommissioned. I think that they thought they could finally get just as good of photos off the sats.

Rick
 
Just imagine the taxpayer dollars that it would take to keep those old birds flying. That'll take some of the edge off.

Those planes cost a fortune to operate back in the day, and now being 50-ish years old they'd probably need to be taken completely apart and rebuilt from bottom to top. For a purpose that no longer exists because of drones and spy satellites.
 

I thought 3 or 4 were held back for "contingencies".A satelite may not pass over just what you want to look at when you want to look at it.'71 would get where you need it in a matter of hours.
 
I read on the news just a few days ago that they're planning on making an SR72 upgraded version of the 71. It's supposed to be unmanned, use a scramjet and go higher and faster than the old one.
 
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