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The Ultimate Ground Speed Check - Tales from the Blackbird
There were a lot of things we couldn't do in an SR-71, but we were the fastest guys on the block and loved reminding our fellow aviators of this fact. People often asked us if, because of this fact, it was fun to fly the jet. Fun would not be the first word I would use to describe flying this plane. Intense, maybe. Even cerebral. But there was one day in our Sled experience when we would have to say that it was pure fun to be the fastest guys out there, at least for a moment. (oppositelock.jalopnik.com) עוד...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Same story happened to me in reverse. In the late 80s, while flying out of Parks College (ILL) our practice area was near Scott AFB. A group of F-4 Phantoms was on frequency asking Scott tower for ground speed checks, tower answered back with 300s, 400s, 500s and was also giving mach number readouts .5 .6 .7 etc. We radioed in from our Cessna 152 and asked for same, and you could hear the exasperation in the controllers voice. We were moving so slow, he had to wait a few seconds for the radar beam to swing around again and hit us and notice a difference on his scope. You could almost hear him using the pencil on paper to calculate such a low number. He finally radioed back, "Cessna, ground speed 78, mach .1" We were high-fiveing each other inside the 152! "Yeah, we're going ONE TENTH the speed of sound!" Good times.
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Are you responding to blueashflyer or did spam get deleted? His story is great!
There was a spam here. The story is amazing.
Jeez! Brian Schul could sell a million copies of his book if it were reprinted!