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05-01-2010, 01:43 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Rotterdam, Holland
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Originally Posted by murphyaa
This has my interest. I've been trying to design an SR-71 as a gift for my Dad (astral-navigation technician for the SR-71), and to sell on Fiddlersgreen, but it's still beyond my skill level.
I do believe the saying "If you build it they will come" applies here.
And to show the secrecy involved, he still won't tell me it's top speed and altitude, and flatly denies that it ever carried a drone...
Although his favorite story is of a pilot losing one engine, firewalling the other one, pointing the bird straight up, and disappearing out of sight.
Or how when both engines died, it actually flew backwards...into the ground.
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I just got me this book, you should get a copy for your dad and maybe one for yourself:D:D
Amazon.com: Lockheed Blackbird Family: A-12, YF-12, D-21/M-21 & SR-71 Photo Scrapbook (9781580071512): Tony Landis: Books
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