Few pics I took today... SR-71 Blackbird

[kwerk]

SR-71 Blackbird... 1 of 20 still around.

Holy crap it was AWESOME to touch it and walk under neath. Made my day.

Saw a shooting range by the side of the road in the middle of nowhere and I had my AK in my truck, so natural I stopped and dumped a few mags .

Also saw some buffalo (smaller than I imagined they would be).

 

[BigglesPiP]

I've touched the SR-71 at Duxford.

 

[robgmun]

A SR-71 touched me at Duxford. I still don't want to talk about it

 

[Parsley]

That looks very much like the one I went to see at the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Centre .

 

[panthro]

Yeah I usually carry my AK around in my boot too, never know when it will come in handy.

 

[danza]

Yeah I usually carry my AK around in my boot too, never know when it will come in handy.

I hope you also wear a hankey on your head, tied at the corners for maximum gangsta effect.

SR-71 is an awesome, awesome bit of machinery.

 

[antijoke]

Yeah I usually carry my AK around in my boot too, never know when it will come in handy.

AK-47, the very best there is. When you absolutely, positively, have to kill every single ************ in the room; accept no substitute.

 

[Aod]

AK-47, the very best there is. When you absolutely, positively, have to kill every single ************ in the room; accept no substitute.

Actually, it looks like kwerk has an AK-74M, in 5.45x39, but it was probably modded from a semi-auto civvie Saiga. Am I right Kwerk?

 

[4T5]

I had my AK in my truck, so natural I stopped and dumped a few mags .

Is your name Abdul ???

Loving the Blackbird.

 

[antijoke]

Well I guess being from Cov you have more experience with fire arms than I do.

 

[Cosimo]

I've touched the SR-71 at Duxford.

It’s absolutely amazing, isn’t it?

 

[ScarySquirrel]

It looks very small in those photos.

 

[Skii]

It looks very small in those photos.

From many angles, it is. Stealth is about having as small a cross section as possible, so you only get a real appreciation of its size from underneath or above.

The TSR2 - now that looks big up close !

 

[Mikoyan]

I have sat in one of these at Boeing Factory in USA \/

 

[Dup]

"Pull T handle out 9ft"?

What's that about? You gotta pull a handle 9ft to open the canopy?

I want to visit a museum with awesome machinery in it now. Where shall I go?

 

[Skii]

"Pull T handle out 9ft"?

What's that about? You gotta pull a handle 9ft to open the canopy?

emergency canopy release mechanism uses explosives - the handle is attached to a cable which is 9 ft long.

 

[House]

I had some great up close shots of a A12 (the earlier version of the SR71 used by the CIA youd have to be an expert to tell the diffrence) that I took at Battleship park in Mobile Alabama.

If for some reason you get stuck in Mobile its a cool day out, USS Alabama (WWII Battleship) USS Drum (WWII Sub) and a whole load of planes ranging from WWII to F18s.
Its cheap as hell as well but be prepared to bang you head allot if your over 6 foot tall.

Im 6'7" and i nearly killed myself crawling around USS Drum.

 

[Hank_Marvin]

ooo that place sounds cool house

 

[WillyNelson]

There's an SR71 in New York as well, parked on a carrier somewhere in midtown manhatten. Or at least there was in the early 90's.

 

[The Running Man]

i touched the one on the carrier in NYC in about 2001/2002. lots of interesting craft on that one.