Doug wrote:
Can't get to heaven if you don't have an instrument rating, as you
can't fly above 18,000' :-)

You know the part in 'High Flight where it talks about putting out your
hand to touch the face of God? Well, when we're at speed and altitude in
the SR, we have to slow down and descend in order to do that.

— USAF Lt. Col. Gil Bertelson, SR-71 pilot, in 'SR-71 Blackbird:
Stories, Tales and Legends,' 2002.