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This may be the single greatest aviation story ever told, it’s about the iconic SR-71 Blackbird. The story, from the now out-of-print book Sled Driver by former SR-71 jockey Brian Shul (available used on Amazon for just $700). Here’s the ultimate aviation troll: (tribunist.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Thanks, Jonathan.
just imagine the stories that they CAN'T share...
An old story, but still super to read.
One of the comments posted on that story was a great follow-up: "the one where the SR-71 pilot asks permission to fly at 80,000 feet. The local tower responds that if he can get there it is all his. The sled pilot says "Roger, descending to 80,000".
Funny!
Funny!
That is a great story!
Still fun to read it again...
And on another slow news day another repost of a repost....................