The Ultimate Ground Speed Check - Tales from the Blackbird -- Jalopnik
I don't know of any ludicrous speeding tickets so I can't participate in today's QOTD, but it did remind me of my favorite SR-71 story.
This is an expanded excerpt from Brian Schul's book Sled Driver : Flying the World's Fastest Jet. (which happens to be out of print and ludicrously expensive now, I wish I had bought a copy when I could have afforded it).
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My Comment: When I first started this blog someone emailed me this story ..... and it has stuck with me ever since. On this quiet and wintry Saturday night .... I cannot recommend anything better to read than this. Enjoy .... and remember that there is always someone bigger, better, and faster than you are.
Heh,heh, when you blow the doors off of them, it can feel pretty good.
ReplyDeleteRead this a while back....it's a GREAT story!!!
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