Great Read!!!

[Panther_99FS]

http://airman.dodlive.mil/2017/07/10...-71-blackbird/

[PRB]

Good stuff. What a bad a** plane! I saw one. Once. On a flight from Subic Bay to the US, we stopped at Kadena for gas. One was taking off. That was it. My only "sighting"...

[Navy Chief]

Interesting article.I never saw one in person. When I was with the Indiana Air Natl. Guard (181st TFG) for a brief time, they sent me to Chanute for Egress School. The guy who was my barracks roommate had some type of connection with a photographer on base, who had provided him with a lot of 8 x 10 glossy prints of SR-71. He gave me some. I moved several times over the years, and eventually misplaced or threw them away, unfortunately. NC