More airplane stuff…

Since the last post on the fly-bys got a pretty good response, here are a couple of other interesting ones…

Go HERE to see a flash movie about the SR-71 (also known as the Blackbird or Habu). A funny story about the SR-71, it was President Johnson that “admitted” the SR-71 existed, but he mispronounced the designation, as SR-71 when it was supposed to be RS-71, so the Air Force had to change all the documentation because nobody had the balls to tell the President he screwed up… 🙂

Now this is one where the test pilot earns his money…

This is a 24 degree nose up short field landing (which is about 10-15 degrees steeper than normal). He had about a 50-50 chance of actually succeeding without bending the airplane. The other option was getting a tail strike into a porpoise into a ball of flames…

Anyhoo, I’m off playing in the field for a couple of weeks, so blogging will be light for a while.

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