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Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird - USAF Museum 04-18-2017
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Okay, here is the "Blackbird" finally. Good luck telling it apart from the YF-12A! LOL
[i]On March 21, 1968, in the aircraft on display, Maj. (later Gen.) Jerome F. O'Malley and Maj. Edward D. Payne made the first operational SR-71 sortie. During its career, this aircraft accumulated 2,981 flying hours and flew 942 total sorties (more than any other SR-71), including 257 operational missions, from Beale Air Force Base, Calif., Palmdale, Calif., Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, and RAF (Base), Mildenhall, England. The aircraft was flown to the museum in March 1990.[/i]
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[i]On March 21, 1968, in the aircraft on display, Maj. (later Gen.) Jerome F. O'Malley and Maj. Edward D. Payne made the first operational SR-71 sortie. During its career, this aircraft accumulated 2,981 flying hours and flew 942 total sorties (more than any other SR-71), including 257 operational missions, from Beale Air Force Base, Calif., Palmdale, Calif., Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, and RAF (Base), Mildenhall, England. The aircraft was flown to the museum in March 1990.[/i]
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Grew up watching that baby on Saturday mornings. It had everything a young boy could want; monsters, robots, spies, explosions, super science, etc.
They rebooted it in 1986, and then again in 1996, but neither of those could overshadow the original.
What can I say, I'm a hopeless nerd.;)
And, given that the animation budget wasn't very large, they had to simplify the designs of everything. And of course, they took a few liberties with things, the cockpit of the SR-71 was not nearly as roomy as the one seen on the show.
But, one of the neat things was that, aside from the super science things of course, everything else shown was based on real things that were available at the time.
In fact, in one episode, the bad guys had state of the art assault rifles: M16's. And this was while the U.S. Army was re-equipping with those.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_2707#/media/File:Tymczyszyn.SST.jpg
In fact, the only evidence I can find in support is a statement in a Comico Jonny Quest comic about it being the SR-71. And, since that was written at least 20 years after the series, I don't think it counts.:)
Should have fact checked my claims before putting them out there.
After this many years, you'd think I'd get used to being wrong by now. Guess I'm just a slow learner. ;)
Blackbird's still a beautiful airplane, though.