And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
The horizon shows shallow descending left turn, but both attitude indicators are wings level. One thrust lever is at cutoff and the pilot isn't wearing the proper high altitude suit.
While retired, General Yeager took an afternoon excursion from Beale AFB near Marysville, CA to Alaska and back in an SR-71. He told a friend that in that one trip he burned a quarter of a million pounds of fuel. YMMV.
No one ever figured out anything that could shoot one down.
And if you think we retired it, without having something else orders of magnitude better than the cream of 1960 technology, I have a bridge for sale, cheap.
Speed check
ReplyDeleteMy first thought was Brian Shul.
DeleteAll analog/mechanical instruments.
ReplyDeleteLooks like it is in space at that altitude.
"No, but you can see it from here..."
DeleteDon't ever press the red button.
ReplyDeleteFirst time I took a ride in my friend's plane, he admonished,"Don't touch anything red or yellow."
ReplyDeleteNeeds to have Deep Purple's song "Space Truckin" playing over the intercom.
ReplyDeletePhoto Shop is what I think.
ReplyDeleteThe horizon shows shallow descending left turn, but both attitude indicators are wings level. One thrust lever is at cutoff and the pilot isn't wearing the proper high altitude suit.
But it does look nice.
I still try to get my head around how the cockpit would reach 500 degrees (or so I've read) when the plane was at Mach 3.
ReplyDeleteIt kept the pilot from touching the red button, or anything yellow, or tapping the attitude indicators when they were misreading.
DeleteDid they really need mirrors?
DeleteOnly to see out of.
DeleteWhile retired, General Yeager took an afternoon excursion from Beale AFB near Marysville, CA to Alaska and back in an SR-71. He told a friend that in that one trip he burned a quarter of a million pounds of fuel.
ReplyDeleteYMMV.
Did they really need mirrors? Yes, they did. The man who designed that aircraft (Kelly Johnson) was most probably an alien.......
ReplyDeleteThose big red buttons are maplights on a rigid cable.
ReplyDeleteThis is how America never fights "fair".
ReplyDeleteNo one ever figured out anything that could shoot one down.
And if you think we retired it, without having something else orders of magnitude better than the cream of 1960 technology, I have a bridge for sale, cheap.
Brought to you by Kelly Johnson's imagination, slide rule, pencil, reams of paper and a Really Great Budget! What a Beautiful Bird!
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