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[dware]

1. Wow!!!!

Fascinating story.
You don't really want to mess with the Swedish Air Force, they jealously guard their air space and they're top notch pilots.

[marybourg]

2. After Blackbird was declassified, late DH

and I were at a get together in our retirement community with 5 or 6 couples one night. The men, all retired at that point and from different parts of the country started talking about what they used to do. Turned out 4! 4! of the men had all worked on some part of Blackbird! I think it must have been keeping the economy afloat single-handed!

[Celerity]

3. thank you so much for posting this, great story!

there are rumours for decades here that long ago the Swedish Air force shot down a UFO

[DemoTex]

4. Great story!

Thanks for posting.

[electric_blue68]

5. bookmarked! The SR-71 is such a gorgeously

designed plane!

Saw a photo about ? 52 years ago and in person back around 2002 on the Intrepid Aircraft Museum - they had one on the runway among many other amazing aircraft! 👍

[dware]

6. It still holds all kinds of world records.

Another beautiful plane is this:



Rockwell B-1B Lancer.

[EX500rider]

7. Yeah it looks so good in black

[dware]

8. Notice how similar the Russian Tupolev Tu-160

Blackjack bomber looks to the B-1B?



Think they copied the basic design of the Lancer?

[EX500rider]

9. I'd say no doubt they did. nt

[electric_blue68]

12. Very nice!

[ItsjustMe]

10. Castle Air Museum Has A SR-71

I was at Castle over 20 years ago, I was surprised by the size of the engines/exhaust, they look smaller on photos.

https://www.castleairmuseum.org/

[electric_blue68]

13. Great little vid! I see what you mean...

I was paying more attention to the nose, the delta wings , and the front of the jet engine with that badass black cone and the red ring at it's base! 😁


BTW did you see under the front of the fuselage by the pilots area the small clear semi-circular "bubble" for the Spy Camera. 👍

[Hermit-The-Prog]

11. Everybody needs a friend sometime. trumPutin does not understand that.

[electric_blue68]

15. So very true, sometimes the most arrogant forget this.

[electric_blue68]

14. Thank you Swedish AF! What a story.

[Liberal In Texas]

16. It was a shame when they cancelled the program.

But budgets and politics rule. Now Trump has ended the Clear Skies program and his having the aircraft destroyed. Might be handy right now to have a few of them still around and airworthy.

[littlemissmartypants]

17. Wouldn't it be nice to have a aviation enthusiasts group?

I wonder what EarlG would say about it? I nominate you for group host.

❤ lmsp

[Marcuse]

18. I knew a former KC-135 pilot who refueled Blackbirds out of Beale.

He was shocked to see his Far East missions detailed in a Newsweek magazine I had given him. He was still sworn to secrecy.

[ffr]

19. NATO allied pilots putting themselves between the Russians and the American aircraft

How important are such acts of bravery in today's context! Thank you Joe Biden. You rebuilt NATO alliances and we stand strong, united, against Russian imperialism.