Time to Bring the SR-71 out of Mothballs?

[eagl]

Replicant

I think I made one PD in there during my local area orientation, but I don't remember.  Since then I've pretty much only done approaches back here.

edit - I'm an E model driver.

[tce2506]

I saw the SR-71 fly a few times while I was stationed at Edwards AFB. NASA has one or two that they still fly out of Edwards for testing. The double sonic boom always gave it away. Really cool plane, but i suspect they are using UAV's more than anything now.

[GreenCloud]

yes..i was talking about the u-2..

and i do think i was dam close to his speed...we kinda crossed perpendicular..so i couldnt have the best judgement on speed...

i was going around 110mph...nose down with a tail wind in the c152..lolol


was sweet to see so clsoe flying..and to think the guy just came back froma  alonnnngggazzzz flight to take pictures of somthing for our stealth to go destroy ; )

[Furball]

Originally posted by GreenCloud
yes..i was talking about the u-2..

and i do think i was dam close to his speed...we kinda crossed perpendicular..so i couldnt have the best judgement on speed...

i was going around 110mph...nose down with a tail wind in the c152..lolol


was sweet to see so clsoe flying..and to think the guy just came back froma  alonnnngggazzzz flight to take pictures of somthing for our stealth to go destroy ; )

i bet he was flying along the european beaches gawping at the topless women.

[wombatt]

Even though she is an old bird I think she is one of if not the most beautiful airplane ever built.

[Furball]

Originally posted by wombatt
Even though she is an old bird I think she is one of if not the most beautiful airplane ever built.

yup, although i think Concorde is probably the most beautiful aircraft in my opinion, looks awesome with its nose up.

[straffo]

You use strange words in english ... why don't you use "naphtaline" ?
Cause storing a SR71 in "Moth Bollocks" look pretty weird when translated in another langage like mine

[Gunslinger]

Originally posted by tce2506
I saw the SR-71 fly a few times while I was stationed at Edwards AFB. NASA has one or two that they still fly out of Edwards for testing. The double sonic boom always gave it away. Really cool plane, but i suspect they are using UAV's more than anything now.

The SR 71s are mothbolled and probably going to go on display at some museum.  

what did ya do at edwards?

[genozaur]

Originally posted by Gunslinger
Ahhhh  Blame it all on the jews!  I see, they shouldnt have them but a country rich in state funded terrorism should?

I just don't agree with it, and I think that would be the perfect "excuse" to take them out.  

Really letting Iran enrich nukes is like letting a pedophile run a day care!

Alright, forget the hotbed of the Near East.

My another question is about China.

Why several US-based organizations are in such an opposition to the Chinese government's decision to bild a dam and a hydraulic power plant
(Three Gorges Dam Project) ? [see e.g.
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a37a7c0595e1e.htm

All the environmental concerns are  the obvious
smokescreen for not wanting to let another great nation of 1.3 billion people have imports' independent energy industry.
And this is not just a trend in the US foreign policy , it's a wide thoroughfare for the special intrests of the oil industry.
What do we see around the world right now in this respect? North Korea : this poor nation is being put on it's knees because it wanted to start production of the nuclear energy. Iran : same thing. Iraq : occupied because it was selling it's own oil too chip ! China : being harassed in order to permanently freeze the Three Gorges Dam Project.
Oh yeah, it must be called fair competition.
 And what about the Ukraine where a US puppet-president has been just installed with the help of the US money ? The newly "elected" president of this country is its former prime-minister who was fired a couple years
ago after the mass protests of the coalminers who are against his policy of the large-scale closures of their mines. And this in the country where coal is practically the only source of energy (a handful of small gas fields  is a mere fraction of the needed energy supplies).

[eagl]

That ignores the fact that the 3 gorges project could impact the global climate more than any other man made project in history...  The same anti-US people who cry out over American environmental impacts turn right around and support the Chinese in the largest dam project in history.  It doesn't make sense.

[Nilsen]

Originally posted by eagl
sniper pod

Are those any good? We have bought these for our F-16's

-edit- woops.... i mean pantera pods. my bad

[eagl]

Yea, they're good.

[Nilsen]

good. so far the USAF and the norwegian airforce are the first users of this new pod.

-edit- in october some pople from LM were here in norway to test a new consept developed by NOBLE (norwegian) and LM that enables the pantera pod to transmit live footage from the pod to a display in the cockpit and to a groundstation more than 50nm away....live and in full color. This is now beeing introduced here and they are prolly gonna sell it to the USAF too

[eagl]

The USAF is currently fielding 5 different pods...  It's a little embarassing and somewhat of a pain in the prettythang having to know how to use 3-4 types of pods.  However it's let us jump ahead 3 full generations of pods without having to pay out enough money to buy thousands of pods that would have been obsolete already.

There's tons of stories behind the scenes regarding the pods, but unfortunately most of it is either classified or company proprietary so we can't even talk to the company reps about the other company's pods.  All I can say is that the newer pods are really good and someday the footage may end up on CNN so you guys can see it too  The Guard is gonna be PISSED when they notice though...  Haha.

[Gunslinger]

Egl  have you seen the new F16I's with the conformal fuel tanks.  they look like they are on steroids...pretty cool