Faster than you.
 

Nice article on flying the SR71 blackbird:

http://gizmodo.com/5511236/the-thril...=Google+Reader

great read. I want to have trust in my machine like the author did.

'You might want to pull it back,' Walter suggested. It was then that I noticed I still had the throttles full forward. The plane was flying a mile every 1.6 seconds, well above our Mach 3.2 limit. It was the fastest we would ever fly. I pulled the throttles to idle just south of Sicily , but we still overran the refueling tanker awaiting us over Gibraltar.

:eek4:

And its pretty funny that they estimate 4000 SAMs fired with not one hit. Thats enough to bankrupt half the Bannana Republics that have come and gone.

Edit:

America FUCK YEAH!!!

Very nice find! Aviation has always interested me, and I consider becoming a commercial/military pilot when I graduate, but I'm blind as a bat so I can scratch that one off :giggle:

Me toooo!

And now I'm back on youtube. Went from bispen base jumping videos to awesome aeroplane videos.

Check this:

Story of my life :laugh:

My wife's co-worker was over today, helping remodel our basement. He worked w/ the SR71 and recommended a couple good reads. Really neat guy.

He was telling a couple of us that he's sat in the cockpit.