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Speaking of Kadena, check out the youtube Reon Kadena
I feel so cheated by life that I've never seen one fly. I'd relive my life if only I could work into the schedule to see the plane fly one time. Youth, cars, and females took all my time until the plane finally retired permenantly (and reluctantly). I fell in love with the plane only after it's last shadow crept the surface of the earth. Today I have an affection for the plane and those who worked with her, the plane and her handlers truely being a breed apart. What they did together for this country is truely a remarkable feat.
I was stationed at Camp Butler just a ways from Kadena AB. we could here them running up and watching night takeoffs were fun to watch. i also saw one fly in during the day and was amazed to see them waddle in the turn for final . aaaahhhhh okinawa .... thanks for the link some good reading for sure !!!
bondoman .... I remember reading a story about one landing in heavy fog, where the GIB used the viewfinder in the lookdown camera to find the runway stripes.
.... I remember reading a story about one landing in heavy fog, where the GIB used the viewfinder in the lookdown camera to find the runway stripes.
That is another one of those "urban legends" created by someone that doesn't know much about the SR-71.
- There were 5 visual cameras, (6 if the OBC was in the nose) and NONE of them had a real time readout in the aircraft. The film had to be downloaded on the ground and developed just like the film in your hand held camera. The SLR or Side Looking Radar did have a real time readout , (actually about a 10-15 second delay), for the RSO, but it only operated when the plane was at operational altitude and then a minimum of 20 miles to the side of the flight path.
Darwin, O.F.
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The B-52 and me, we have grown old, gray and overweight together.
I've never seen one and would like to very much. I remember reading a story about one landing in heavy fog, where the GIB used the viewfinder in the lookdown camera to find the runway stripes.
That's one ship that I used to love to watch.
This has also been my belief since it's first retirement in 1990. Thanks for the link.
The SR-71 is a bird that should still be carrying the load that no others could, to places no others could go and had the additional impact of "no knock entry" so that we could often catch them with their stuff in the open.- This web site was originally started and maintained by Leland Haynes, one of the original SR-71 crew chiefs. He went to that big hangar in the sky a few years ago and now someone else is maintaining the site.
Darwin http://www.wvi.com/~sr71webmaster/kadena2.html
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