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SR-71 pilot recalls when Blackbird crew members spray painted RC-135 silhouettes all over Kadena AB. RC-135 crew members had to remove all the painted planes.

Cold War Era / Military Aviation / SR-71 Blackbird

SR-71 pilot recalls spray painting RC-135 silhouettes all over Kadena AB. RC-135 crew members had to remove all the painted planes.

Linda Sheffield Miller

Impressive video shows SR-71 Blackbird J58 Engine tested at Max Afterburner Power

Cold War Era / Military Aviation / SR-71 Blackbird

Impressive video of SR-71 Blackbird J58 Engine tested in full Afterburner

Dario Leone

The SR-71 Blackbird was so fast that the F-15 Eagle radar couldn’t see it

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

SR-71 pilot tells why the F-15 radar couldn’t see the Blackbird during Eagle Bait sorties

Linda Sheffield Miller

Blackbird pilot tells why the SR-71 could fly at Mach 3.55 so long as 427C weren’t exceeded

Cold War Era / Military Aviation / SR-71 Blackbird

The SR-71 was nicknamed the “Sled” after a Double-Engine Flameout over North Vietnam

Linda Sheffield Miller

Habu Pilot recalls the SR-71 mission he flew in the “denied area” where Soviets were test firing the then new SA-5 ‘Gammon’ SAM

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

The SR-71 that survived double engine unstart while painted by Soviet SA-5 missile radar

Dario Leone

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The SR-71 crew who training in anti-SAM tactics left a 5-mile-long contrail in the stratosphere after dumping fuel for 10 seconds to see if the afterburner would ignite the fuel trail

Cold War Era / Military Aviation / SR-71 Blackbird

While training in anti-SAM tactics, an SR-71 crew left a 5-mile-long contrail in the stratosphere after dumping fuel for 10 seconds to see if the AB would ignite the fuel trail

Linda Sheffield Miller

In 1960s Russia sold titanium to the US believing they needed it for Pizza Ovens but instead they used it to build the SR-71 Blackbird Mach 3+ spy plane

Cold War Era / Military Aviation / SR-71 Blackbird

In 1960s Russia sold titanium to US for SR-71 believing it was for Pizza Ovens

Linda Sheffield Miller

SR-71 crew members tell why the Blackbird couldn’t exceed Mach 3.2 for Absolute Speed Record

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

SR-71 crew members tell why the Blackbird couldn’t exceed Mach 3.2 for Absolute Speed Record

Linda Sheffield Miller

SR-71 pilot recalls when his RSO Flipped Off a French Air Force Mirage III Pilot (Then They lit their Blackbird’s Afterburners and Outran him)

Cold War Era / Military Aviation / SR-71 Blackbird

SR-71 pilot remembers when his RSO Flipped Off a French Air Force Mirage III Pilot (Then They lit their Blackbird’s Afterburners and Outran him)

Linda Sheffield Miller

Blackbird pilot tells why the SR-71 could fly at Mach 3.55 so long as 427C weren’t exceeded

Cold War Era / Military Aviation / SR-71 Blackbird

SR-71 RCS was 20 square in. at subsonic speeds, at Mach 3.2 the RCS was 10 square miles. Here’s why.

Linda Sheffield Miller

SR-71 pilot recalls when a Soviet MiG-23 pilot asked him to bring his Blackbird at Vladivostok as a gesture of peaceful relationship. He answered him to forward his request to US state department.

Cold War Era / Military Aviation / SR-71 Blackbird

SR-71 pilot tells when a Soviet MiG-23 pilot asked him to bring at Vladivostok his Blackbird as a gesture of peaceful relationship. He told him to forward his request to US state department.

Linda Sheffield Miller

SR-71 RSO recalls when his Blackbird had to divert to South Korea after Photographing all of the SA-2 SAM Sites in North Korea in One Mission

Cold War Era / Military Aviation / SR-71 Blackbird

SR-71 pilot recalls when his Blackbird flying at Mach 3, at 80K ft made a shockwave stretching from Indiana to New York State

Linda Sheffield Miller

Blackbird pilot tells why the SR-71 could fly at Mach 3.55 so long as 427C weren’t exceeded

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

SR-71 pilot recalls setting 13 acres of Maryland on fire by dumping fuel after one engine exploded during his last Blackbird flight

Linda Sheffield Miller

JP-7, the SR-71 Blackbird fuel, caused a nationwide shortage of bug spray. Here’s why.

Cold War Era / Military Aviation / SR-71 Blackbird

JP-7, the SR-71 Blackbird fuel, caused a nationwide shortage of bug spray. Here’s why.

Linda Sheffield Miller

US Navy Phantom II pilot recalls when his F-4 radar screen went black because of the high speed of an SR-71 Blackbird he and his RIO tried to intercept while it was exiting Chinese airspace

Cold War Era / Military Aviation / SR-71 Blackbird

Navy F-4 pilot recalls his Phantom radar screen going black because of high speed of an SR-71 he and his RIO tried to intercept while it was exiting Chinese airspace

Dario Leone

In 1960s Russia sold titanium to the US believing they needed it for Pizza Ovens but instead they used it to build the SR-71 Blackbird Mach 3+ spy plane

Cold War Era / Military Aviation / SR-71 Blackbird

SR-71 Mach 3 spy plane’s titanium parts made in summer corroded, those made in winter didn’t. Here’s why.

Linda Sheffield Miller

F-4 crews kept saying the SR-71 couldn’t do a high-performance takeoff: after a Blackbird went vertical in full AB after takeoff, they gave up.

Cold War Era / Military Aviation / SR-71 Blackbird

F-4 crews kept saying the SR-71 couldn’t do a high-performance takeoff: they gave up after a Blackbird went vertical in full AB after takeoff.

Linda Sheffield Miller

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