While posting music a few nights ago I ran into quite a few videos featuring the SR-71 So here are a few. 1st a picture
The SR-71, unofficially known as the “Blackbird,” is a long-range, advanced, strategic reconnaissance aircraft developed from the Lockheed A-12 and YF-12A aircraft. The first flight of an SR-71 took place on December 22, 1964, and the first SR-71 to enter service was delivered to the 4200th (later, 9th) Strategic Reconnaissance Wing at Beale AFB, California, in January 1966. The U.S. Air Force retired its fleet of SR-71s on January 26, 1990, because of a decreasing defense budget and high costs of operation. The USAF returned the SR-71 to the active Air Force inventory in 1995 and began flying operational missions in January 1997. Throughout its nearly 24-year career, the SR-71 remained the world’s fastest and highest-flying operational aircraft. An air-to-air front view of an SR-71A strategic reconnaissance aircraft. The SR-71 is unofficially known as the “Blackbird.” (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Michael Haggerty)
Now this is kind of old but absolutely facinating it is well worth taking the time to read it. I will excerpt a small portion for you here. I think it is fascinating that the guy shut the throttles off over Italy and overshot the tanker over Spain!
That my friends is moving!
With spikes and doors as tight as they can get, we are racing against the time it could take a missile to reach our altitude.It is a race this jet will not let us lose. The Mach eases to 3.5 as we crest 80,000 feet. We are a bullet now – except faster. We hit the turn, and I feel some relief as our nose swings away from a country we have seen quite enough of. Screaming past Tripoli, our phenomenal speed continues to rise, and the screaming Sled pummels the enemy one more time, laying down a parting sonic boom. In seconds, we can see nothing but the expansive blue of the Mediterranean. I realize that I still have my left hand full-forward and we’re continuing to rocket along in maximum afterburner….. ‘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.
Read it all here
Freezing rain encased the upper half of an SR-71 Blackbird and formed icicles along the leading and trailing edge of the static display aircraft Jan. 16 at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas. (U.S. Air Force photo/Lance Cheung)
Lastly a documentary it is long so you are warned
Have a great Sunday!
Important note:
Feel free to push this poat down with the Salsa Poat!
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Fursties! Morning Vmax.
Morning Clintbird
Nice job Vmax, I love that plane.
Excellent post as usual, Vmax. The excerpt from the pilot is hilarious. How awesome to have had that experience. Ha!
After experiencing an adrenaline rush like that, I wonder what those guys do for thrills on terra firma. I bet they get bored easily. Or smoke a lot of heroin.
Badass.
http://tinyurl.com/le33nu
Vmax, I’ll do the salsa poat but I won’t put it up until later so that people have the opportunity to make stupid comments on your poat and link pictures of monkeys.
PUPSTER!!!! PHONE!!!! IT’S YOUR DAD!!!!!
http://tinyurl.com/nlzw9n
Rosetta: “Badass.
http://tinyurl.com/le33nu ”
Great photo!
Clint,
Did you click on the picture? It fills the screen if you click on it.
You half expect to see a set of giant balls hanging underneath the plane in that picture. Hahahaha.
I did. It’s a terrific photo of one of our most magnificent planes.
good morning
I forget where I read it at, but it was the same time that I first read about the guy outrunning the missiles over Libya a guy was running a radar in a destroyer in the Med when he picked up this contact coming at him fast, He said he could see 600 miles on the radar scope. He said it took 4 revolutions of the radar and it was off his screen. ( may have gotten it wrong, but that is how I remember it)
Hi Sohos
Count still have all his fingers after the fireworks show? Catch anything on fire?
Good morning soloholos.
The firework show was incredible!
howdy roussette did you have a happy 6th?
I mean 4th duh!
“howdy roussette did you have a happy 6th?”
hahahahahaha
(6th Indian?)
Yes I did, cutie pie. One of my best friends just bought a new kick ass house so went over there last night and hung out. I overserved myself.
I had this for the first time.
http://popsop.com/wp-content/uploads/jeremia.jpg
It’s friggin’ excellent.
I’m heading out to church. Just want to say I had a blast (clever girl) yesterday and I hope everyone else did too.
And I hope Gwyneth Paltrow had a bottle rocket land in her arugula salad.
Great post Vmax, I just finished it.
Looks yummy!
MARE! What time is it there right now?
Here you go Rosetta, the vodka I buy has been coming with the sweet carolina samples. I think I have about 6 of them now. they are very sweet but taste just like sweet tea.
http://austin.decider.com/articles/texas-taste-test-sweet-tea-vodkas,29407/
Saw one of those refueling at Edwards AFB years ago. It’s messy. The fuel cells leak until the plane reaches first crusing altitude so they are pouring it in but the plane still took off largely empty, then refuels in flight.
Rocket with wings though. Man that thing was amazing.
*smacks forehead* SUBJECTS MUST AGREE WITH THEY VERBS! IT’S A RULE.
>>SUBJECTS MUST AGREE WITH THEY VERBS
Kick those fucking subjects if they don’t agree with the verbs. I hate disagreements like that.
Here you go Rosetta, the vodka I buy has been coming with the sweet carolina samples.
HOLY CRAP!! I didn’t even know that stuff existed before last night. I think it kicks ass. Figures you would already know about it. Ha! I know you like your vodkas.
I overserved myself.
Bastard. Quit commenting so damn loudly.
If you don’t knock this shit off, I’m out of here. I mean it, you drunk. Alcoholics Anonymous. Look it up.
Shut up liver, you pussy.
Dave,
they say it “grows” 6″ when it is hot and the skin temp is 1000d
I think they still do not have a plastic that can withstand the operating temp of the fuel tank.
Doesn’t that blow your mind? A fuel tank that gets to 700-800 degrees! JP-? must have a really high flash point.
>>they say it “grows” 6″ when it is hot
Same here
I killed the thread, didn’t I?
Heheheh
Tushar made a funny and killed it.
Rosetta’s liver does theater
Quit trying to kill shit, Tushar.
Vmax, that article was awesome. I laughed my ass off. The thud it made hitting the groud woke up all my pissed of neighbors.
I killed the thread, didn’t I?
You aren’t cranky enough to steal cranky’s mantle. Get your own, brown person!
Here’s a picture of TBoM’s face.
http://tinyurl.com/q4gfna
Howdy fagz.
Survived a monster storm yesterday morning, then had a kickass fireworks display at my parents’ house.
And my daughter and I still have all our fingers, toes, and eyes.
Rosetta…Whats’ya doing?
Here’s how Rosetta and Jewstin spent the holiday
I think BiW is trying to communicate.
TBOM is like this guy, only less funneh.
http://tinyurl.com/q9aqup
I think BiW is trying to communicate.
I loved that phone.
PattyAnn, send me your salsa recipe already!!
Will someone bail PattyAnn out of prison so she can email me her friggin’ salsa recipe?
The lego MCPOld
PattyAnn, send me your salsa recipe already!!
I hear its to die for.
You know what would make these pancakes better?
Fresh salsa. BRB.
Lawn is mowed.
MIL and FIL on the way, with beer.
I’m about to fire up the grill for the 3rd day in a row.
You know what sucks about my life?
Nothing. That’s what.
http://bit.ly/aqzoz
Going to work around 3.
Might rain for a couple of days, get a break in the 100+ temps.
Tradeoff.
L to R – Pupster
http://bit.ly/XgpAL
You know what sucks about my life?
Nothing. That’s what.
Ha! Excellent. Have fun Pup!
good luck, Pups. Drink 1 or 6 extra for me.
I saw Patty Ann flying around Metropolis w/Superman, and from the look on her face, I don’t think she’ll be back here for awhile longer yet … just sayin’
Not Dave in Texas:
http://bit.ly/4gOLSj
I hope all Hostages are enjoying as spectacular a day weatherwise as we are here.
It’s time for today’s episode of “What’s shoved up TBoM’s Ass Right Now”.
Hey TBoM, what’s shoved up your ass right now?
http://tinyurl.com/ddgtqj
There is a reason Pupster is happier than the rest of us.
He can do things none of us can.
Did you hear that Saudi Arabia has warned the Israelis about overflying Saudi airspace to bomb Iran? Saudi Arabia has warned that they will condemn this act in strong words. They may lodge an official protest. They are actually threatening to write a sternly worded letter.
Nope, but I heard Joseph of Arabia today say we cannot dictate to a sovereign nation what they can or cannot do if they feel substantially threatened (regarding Israeli military action against Iranian nukes).
Which ain’t the line Obama’s been putting out (give diplomacy till the end of the year).
Nevermind they actually don’t believe they can’t dictate, they do believe it. Just not sayin so.
Saudis, like all Islamic states. know that they have nothing to fear from Israel if they leave Israel alone. But the Saudis shit bricks every day thinking about what a nuke-ready Iran might do to them. The Saudis have the same problems as Iraq. All their oil-rich areas are Shia majority, and susceptible to Iranian influence. If the Saudis can see the Iranians going down, and teh Joos taking the blame, they will not interfere.
If this happens, Obama will have no choice but to take credit for disarming Iran, and add one more feather to his amazingly successful presidency.
I wonder if Obama has resigned to the possibility of an Israeli attack, and trying to position himself to take credit, or is he allowing some pressure to build on Iran, so that they would respond to diplomacy, and hopes to reign in Israel at the last moment.
Where is everyone today? This place is deader than Tushar’s chance of becoming President.
>>This place is deader than Tushar’s chance of becoming President.
Deader than Rosetta’s chance of becoming a Rogain model.
Rosie, you said something about Carolina hash a bit back, there is aPBS show I saw. It went thru the ‘Upstate” which is mostly NW SC abd a bit of SW NC. I believe they went as far as south of Columbia.Very good start and tips on the beginnings of the recipes. Each group does something a little different. You could modify for your taste and come up with a fabulous Hash. http://www.stanwoodward.com/carolinahash.htm
I think that must have been someone else, shim. Either that or one of us has smoked too much crack.
Fuck it then, I’m still enjoying some beers and ribs later(St Louis style). Whoever it was can take the info and run with it.
Somebody made Brunswick stew and was talking about moving on to hash
Must have been the other bald man-lesbian that comments here.
What kind of beer are you drinking?
And I stopped smoking crack and started reading The Hostages. Twas an even trade
BL for now soaking some watermelon in vodski
Man it is dead around here, it is either the curry smell from Tushar or the blinding light from Rosettas Shiny Head
Check out my sweet bill. Hahaha.
I figured everyone would be partied and BBQ’d out and in recovery / blog mode today.
Rosetta how’s class?
http://tinyurl.com/qokref/
I am lighting the grill up now and opened my 2nd brewski. I have that Delmonico, some brats and a chicken breast that I have been marinating for the last 24 hours.
I ate steak the last two nights. I farted a LOT last night. That is all. Over and out!
That made me laugh thinking about the following. Do you think when Superman farts it works sorta like a jet pack when he’s flying around?
Today’s interesting search terms:
thehostages.wordpress.com 10
hookers 9
“by sohos” “texas” “cheat” 2
flamethrower 1
natural aneta buena 1
well endowed ass 1
mcpo airdale 1
linsey dawn 1
boy in 14 year old fuck women 1
guys pantsed
What happened to “boy sleeps with fat step-mom”?
That was my favorite.
guys pantsed
Stupid Jewstin!
Rosetta how’s class?
http://tinyurl.com/qokref/
Hahahaha. That’s me, front row, right.
Who thinks TBOM needs a good spanking? And I don’t mean the good kind from let’s say Sohos. I mean the bad kind from let’s say this guy:
http://tinyurl.com/p39jpd
Do you think when Superman farts it works sorta like a jet pack when he’s flying around?
MOM!!!! CLINT’S EATING MUSHROOMS AGAIN!!!!
Recycled but still funny joke…
Man the economy is bad. This guy hasn’t had a second interview in months!
http://tinyurl.com/p39jpd
I’m afraid Vmax is going to have a heart attack right after dinner. Vmax, please consider a salad.
The Hostages are going to have a collective stroke from all the red meat.
Yeah. A salad with steak and bacon and mayonnaise and lard and butter and fat! Chunks of fat!!!
The Hostages are going to have a collective stroke from all the red meat.
YOU’RE NOT MY REAL MOM!!!!!!
Hey MARE. What island do you live on? I’ve been to Maui twice and Oahu four times but I don’t think I recognized the name of your town.
The Hostages are going to have a collective stroke from all the red meat
*switches to blue meat*
Oahu. Hawaii Kai is on the east side.
“Yeah. A salad with steak and bacon and mayonnaise and lard and butter and fat! Chunks of fat!!!”
See a salad can be healthy and delicious!
I think one of the search terms in the past was “mare flying boobs.”
*or something like that
See a salad can be healthy and delicious!
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
That’s it.
SHAPE OF GIANT PIECE OF BACON!!!
Thanks, Mare.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
Yourself.
Fix me a drink, Rosetta. Surprise me.
What made your friend’s house “kickass?”
Fix me a drink, Rosetta. Surprise me.
*makes bacon vodka martini inside hollowed out filet mignon, adds cube of blue cheese on a toothpick*
Here you go.
*makes bacon vodka martini inside hollowed out filet mignon, adds cube of blue cheese on a toothpick*
Honestly, that sounds good. I’ll take two.
I’m having bratwurst tonight.
I’m back from the family reunion. It’s held in Waxahaxie and the main street is beautiful Victorian houses with the wrap around porches. They were all festooned with bunting from the balconies and porch rails. Was beautiful.
What made your friend’s house “kickass?”
A lot. It’s an awesome old neighborhood of St. Louis. The previous owners did an amazing amount of landscaping in front and back so there are a TON of trees, plants and flowers. It has a very cool pool with a pool house that he’s going to turn into an outdoor bar. All new Viking appliances in the kitchen. An old school wrap-around front porch. A coy pond with a little fountain in it. A huge hammock surrounded by trees underneath its own pagoda. It’s a fantastic place.
I will consume many excellent beverages and laugh many belly laughs at that place.
Sweet PattyAnn, I have the salsa poat done except for your recipe.
Can you email it to me, sweet momma?
Now that’s a cool house.
Hi, PattyAnn! Sounds like a good old fashioned 4th of July.
Whose boat were you own yesterday, Mare? Were these your new friends that you met a few months ago?
Now that’s a cool house.
He’s a cool dude. I expected no less. And we had brats there last night. Yum.
Mare’s baby pics
http://tinyurl.com/qoqyhx/
Are you scared of clowns? This will help.
http://tinyurl.com/6caqjp
You have a good memory, Rosetta. Yes, and they have two girls the same age as my daughters. They are very relaxed, no rules about this or that making everyone nervous. And the guy (who’s a sweetheart, actually the wife is a sweetheart too) has tons of fun toys. A huge boat, surfboards, stand-up boards, floating lounge chairs, and an inflatable sit-in inner tube. My husband and daughter met us out in the water with our kayaks and the guys rode waves in them for a long time then switched to surf boards. We grilled on the boat, spent hours in the water just treading water and talking, then had a spectacular fireworks display.
I love being around people on a holiday that aren’t constantly organizing and worried about water, dirt, someone getting hurt, etc.. It was just good fun. And of course beer, wine and a gorgeous day.
Bonus, I had never met their older daughter and she was a sweetie too.
I am actually have brats tonight!
“Mare’s baby pics”
I WAS a sturdy, tuff little kid.
I have mentioned this before but all clowns need to be killed.
They are very relaxed, no rules about this or that making everyone nervous.
That’s great. There is nothing worse than going out on someone’s boat and they freak out the entire time about dumb shit.
I’m glad you had a good 4th.
Oh, a double bonus, this couple is very conservative and had an awesome flag flying off the top of the boat.
Brats come with buns
Oh, a double bonus, this couple is very conservative and had an awesome flag flying off the top of the boat.
I remember that. I normally don’t talk politics with people I meet lest I end up wanting to strangle them so it’s fun when you meet someone that turns out to be conservative.
From L to R: TBoM, Rosetta
http://tinyurl.com/q8xhxb
Brats come with buns
Gay whore.
You do anything fun this weekend, mesa?
Kobyashi’s new BUN technique not enough to overcome Chestnut in Nathan’s hotdog eating contest
So Mesa…how are you enjoying the party?
http://bit.ly/1WQj5i
Why are we still here? Didn’t you listen, baldy?
Get us to rehab or we’re audi, baby!
What? You have to be kidding! Miller Chill???? Again???? YOU BASTARD!!!!!!!!!
What? You have to be kidding! Miller Chill???? Again???? YOU BASTARD!!!!!!!!!
IT’S MICHELOB ULTRA YOU IDIOT!!!
*kicks liver in the balls*
BBQ rib smoke off against a buddy from Tennessee. Made thirteen racks of ribs.
I winned.
And, lots of beers. And blew stuff up.
I’m afraid Vmax is going to have a heart attack right after dinner. Vmax, please consider a salad.
Family is over, potatoes are baked the various meats are for various family members not all for me.
My SIL makes a Kick Ass 1905 salad that is in bowels as we speak
http://www.columbiarestaurant.com/recipe.asp?FeaturedItemID=2
“I’m the Juggernaut, bitch” is on FX.
This has been a presentation of Rosetta TV Guide.
It’s 72 degrees here today. And no humidititty.
My SIL makes a Kick Ass 1905 salad that is in bowels as we speak
http://www.columbiarestaurant.com/recipe.asp?FeaturedItemID=2
How long ago did you eat it?
TMI.
BBQ rib smoke off against a buddy from Tennessee. Made thirteen racks of ribs.
I winned.
And, lots of beers. And blew stuff up.
JULY 4TH CELEBRATION WIN!!!
Nice work, ginger lover.
Mesa, baby backs?
Pupster? WTF man.
http://tinyurl.com/6anc97
Alright you bastard. We’re gone. We hear Vmax will have an opening soon, so we’re headin’ over there.
Vmax, that’s funny, my wife said THAT’s ALOT OF FOOD!
Baby backs and spare ribs.
The other guy’s ribs were good, too. But he used a propane smoker.
Not. The. Same.
Alright you bastard. We’re gone. We hear Vmax will have an opening soon, so we’re headin’ over there.
Quitter.
mesa, did you win any money? Free booze? Hookers? Or just the adoration of bun salesmen?
I got a hug from a smoking hot bartender chick where we had the judging.
I got a hug from a smoking hot bartender chick where we had the judging.
The ribs must not have been that good.
She’s a lesbian.
The real kind.
What kind of hug?
This is a great drinking song.Works for slort chasing too
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbOM6uXT4XQ
The tops of my feet are sunburned.
Ow.
http://bit.ly/Xg7Ui
WordPress is acting awful goofy,
skort^
Pup prescription:drink faster
The real kind.
The lipstick variety? Very nice.
New poat’s up by the way
Mesa, if you have a salsa recipe your want me to add, email it over. It won’t be as good as mine but I’ll add it to the post if you want.
*sets shim’s skort on fire*
>>My SIL makes a Kick Ass 1905 salad that is in bowels as we speak
VMax, it has been almost an hour since you posted that. I hope you have freshened up by now.
Great post, Vmax. I watched all the vids and read the article you linked.
This program reminds you that only America had the resources, ingenuity, and Lwill to win the Cold War.
America, Fuck Yeah!!!
The Blackbird is a thing of beauty.
I used to hang out with some of the U-2 guys down in Panama in 89-90. Prima donna’s. But nothing compared to the Blackbird guys. Good god, it’s like they distilled asshole to its purest essence and mainlined it.
They had orange flight suits and when you unzipped the boot zipper there was a silouette of a SR-71 in there. Very, very gay. They also had white ascots, but I think those went away around 1990.