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Linda Sheffield Miller

SR-71 pilots explain why flying the Blackbird with just one engine in full afterburner was SR-71 aircrews’ most dangerous operation

Cold War Era / Military Aviation / SR-71 Blackbird

SR-71 pilots explain why flying the Blackbird with just one engine in full afterburner was SR-71 aircrews’ most dangerous operation

Linda Sheffield Miller

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The story of the D-21 Drone and project Senior Bowl, the Most Secret Program ever developed by the famed Lockheed Skunk Works

Cold War Era / Drones / Military Aviation

The story of the D-21 Drone and project Senior Bowl, the Most Secret Program ever developed by the famed Lockheed Skunk Works

Linda Sheffield Miller

Blackbird Vs Oxcart: the story of project Nice Girl, the recon fly off between the SR-71 and the A-12 and why the Blackbird was chosen over the Oxcart

Cold War Era / Military Aviation / SR-71 Blackbird

Blackbird Vs Oxcart: the story of project Nice Girl, the recon fly off between the SR-71 and the A-12 and why the Blackbird was chosen over the Oxcart

Linda Sheffield Miller

SR-71 pilot explains how he was able to land his Blackbird after it suffered a Double Engine Compressor Stall

Cold War Era / Losses and Aviation Safety / Military Aviation / SR-71 Blackbird

SR-71 pilot explains how he was able to land his Blackbird after it suffered a Double Engine Compressor Stall

Linda Sheffield Miller

Did you know that titanium used to build the iconic SR-71 Blackbird Mach 3+ spy plane came from Soviet Union?

Cold War Era / Military Aviation / SR-71 Blackbird

SR-71 Blackbird RSO tells the story of the North Pole Mission he and his pilot flew the Night Before Christmas to spy on Soviets setting up acoustic sensors to track US submarines

Linda Sheffield Miller

SR-71 RSO tells the story behind this video of a Blackbird creating ’13 Fireballs’ during Air Fete Air Show 1986 at RAF Mildenhall

Cold War Era / Military Aviation / SR-71 Blackbird

SR-71 RSO tells the story behind this video of a Blackbird creating ’13 Fireballs’ during Air Fete Air Show 1986 at RAF Mildenhall

Linda Sheffield Miller

SR-71 RSO tells the story of when he and his pilot were able to land their crippled Blackbird after it experienced a catastrophic engine failure while flying at Mach 2.88 at 68,000 feet

Cold War Era / Losses and Aviation Safety / SR-71 Blackbird

SR-71 RSO tells the story of when he and his pilot were able to land their crippled Blackbird after it experienced a catastrophic engine failure while flying at Mach 2.88 at 68,000 feet

Linda Sheffield Miller

SR-71 Blackbird pilot tells the story of when he did an emergency landing to a CIA compound in Thailand after a double engine flame out while on a spy mission during the Vietnam War

Cold War Era / Losses and Aviation Safety / Military Aviation / SR-71 Blackbird

SR-71 Blackbird pilot tells the story of when he did an emergency landing to a CIA compound in Thailand after a double engine flame out while on a spy mission during the Vietnam War

Linda Sheffield Miller

The story of the SR-71 Blackbird that pitched up and collided with a KC-135Q tanker during an air refueling over El Paso

Cold War Era / Losses and Aviation Safety / SR-71 Blackbird

The story of the SR-71 Blackbird that pitched up and collided with a KC-135Q tanker during an air refueling over El Paso

Linda Sheffield Miller

The story of the first SR-71 crew to deploy a Blackbird in Japan that landed at Kadena two hours before the take off from Beale beating the sun

Cold War Era / Military Aviation / SR-71 Blackbird

The story of the first SR-71 crew to deploy a Blackbird in Japan that landed at Kadena two hours before the take off from Beale beating the sun

Linda Sheffield Miller

The story of Buddy Brown, the U-2 pilot that took part to O Club parties wearing fake bad teeth to joke about the ozone level effect on U-2 drivers

Cold War Era / Military Aviation

The story of Buddy Brown, the U-2 pilot that took part in O Club parties wearing fake bad teeth to joke about the ozone level effect on U-2 drivers

Linda Sheffield Miller

The slowest speed ever recorded by a Lockheed Blackbird

Cold War Era / Military Aviation / SR-71 Blackbird

That time an SR-71 Blackbird pilot hit the afterburners and did a flyby of the tower of Sacramento Airport

Linda Sheffield Miller

SR-71 pilot tells the story of when a KC-135Q crew flew through a thunderstorm with their tanker’s throttles frozen to refuel its Blackbird

Cold War Era / Losses and Aviation Safety / Military Aviation / SR-71 Blackbird

SR-71 pilot tells the story of when a KC-135Q crew flew through a thunderstorm with their tanker’s throttles frozen to refuel its Blackbird

Linda Sheffield Miller

Here’s why the MiG-25 Foxbat was never as fast as the SR-71 (and why Soviets never developed their own Blackbird)

Cold War Era / Military Aviation / SR-71 Blackbird / SR-71 Top Speed

Here’s why the MiG-25 Foxbat was never as fast as the SR-71 (and why Soviets never developed their own Blackbird)

Linda Sheffield Miller

That time an SR-71 deployed Ladies Underwear (along with the drag chute) upon landing to adjust the attitude of a new Blackbird pilot

Aviation Humor / Cold War Era / Military Aviation / SR-71 Blackbird

That time an SR-71 deployed Ladies Underwear (along with the drag chute) upon landing to adjust the attitude of a new Blackbird pilot

Linda Sheffield Miller

SR-71 Aircrew remembers a Memorable Encounter with a Soviet MiG-31 Interceptor over the Barents Sea

Cold War Era / Military Aviation / SR-71 Blackbird

SR-71 pilot tells the story of a tense mission over the Barents Sea where he spotted a Soviet MiG-31 scrambled to intercept his Blackbird

Linda Sheffield Miller

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The urban legend of the brown bag with $30 million in cash delivered to Kelly Johnson to pay for the first six CIA U-2 spy planes

Aviation History / Cold War Era / Military Aviation

The urban legend of the brown bag with $30 million in cash delivered to Kelly Johnson to pay for the first six CIA U-2 spy planes

Linda Sheffield Miller

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