SR-71 Last Flight

Does anyone have any footage of the last SR-71 Blackbird flight held at
Edwards AFB Openhouse in 1998?

Mary Shafer wrote:

On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 07:11:44 GMT, "The Eagle's Nest"
wrote:

Does anyone have any footage of the last SR-71 Blackbird flight held at
Edwards AFB Openhouse in 1998?

Yes.

Mary

Quite impressive...
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-Gord.

Thank you, would you mind sharing it? I have composite SR-71 video from
NASA/Dryden but it does not cover the 98 Openhouse.

Looking for the Mach 3 flyover and landing.

Thank you,

Rob

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Mary Shafer wrote:

On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 07:11:44 GMT, "The Eagle's Nest"
wrote:

Does anyone have any footage of the last SR-71 Blackbird flight held at
Edwards AFB Openhouse in 1998?

Yes.

Mary

Quite impressive...
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-Gord.

On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 04:25:48 GMT, "The Eagle's Nest"
wrote:

Thank you, would you mind sharing it? I have composite SR-71 video from
NASA/Dryden but it does not cover the 98 Openhouse.

I'll ask the owner if a copy can be made.

Looking for the Mach 3 flyover and landing.

He didn't think the fly over was that impressive and, seeing the video
and having seen a previous Mach 3.2 fly over with fuel dump, I kind of
agree. He has the take off, too.

Incidentally, I thought the last flight was at the Open House in '99,
not '98. Not that it matters, of course.

Mary

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Thank you, would you mind sharing it? I have composite SR-71 video
from NASA/Dryden but it does not cover the 98 Openhouse.

Looking for the Mach 3 flyover and landing.

A mach 3 flyover *and* landing? Dear god, the skidmarks!

;-)

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In article , Mary Shafer
wrote:

Incidentally, I thought the last flight was at the Open House in '99,
not '98. Not that it matters, of course.

Mary

I was there for the last flight of the SR-71, and I am pretty
sure that it was 1999. As I recall, they only flew on the Saturday
of the show, the SR-71 has a fuel leak problem, and had to scrub
on Sunday, then never flew again.

-john-

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On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 05:15:53 GMT, "Bill Silvey"
wrote:

"The Eagle's Nest" wrote in message
news:gz2lb.19791$i92.14781@clgrps13
Thank you, would you mind sharing it? I have composite SR-71 video
from NASA/Dryden but it does not cover the 98 Openhouse.

Looking for the Mach 3 flyover and landing.

A mach 3 flyover *and* landing? Dear god, the skidmarks!

;-)

Yea, and all the rubber left on the runway, too. :-)

Al Minyard

On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 09:19:25 -0500, "John A. Weeks III"
wrote:

I was there for the last flight of the SR-71, and I am pretty
sure that it was 1999. As I recall, they only flew on the Saturday
of the show, the SR-71 has a fuel leak problem, and had to scrub
on Sunday, then never flew again.

Fast Eddie is still a little disappointed by that, I think. He was
supposed to fly the Sunday flight.

Mary

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Mary Shafer Retired aerospace research engineer

Uzytkownik "Mary Shafer" napisal w wiadomosci
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On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 04:25:48 GMT, "The Eagle's Nest"
wrote:

Thank you, would you mind sharing it? I have composite SR-71 video from
NASA/Dryden but it does not cover the 98 Openhouse.

I'll ask the owner if a copy can be made.

Looking for the Mach 3 flyover and landing.

He didn't think the fly over was that impressive and, seeing the video
and having seen a previous Mach 3.2 fly over with fuel dump, I kind of
agree. He has the take off, too.

Sorry, Mary, but what is the elevation of said NASA/Dryden AFB? As I recall
your posts SR-71 is SUBSONIC up to 10k ft or so.


Incidentally, I thought the last flight was at the Open House in '99,
not '98. Not that it matters, of course.

Mary

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Mary Shafer Retired aerospace research engineer


Regards
JasiekS (ex aerospace engineer, too)
Warsaw, Poland

On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 23:46:57 +0200, "JasiekS"
wrote:

Uzytkownik "Mary Shafer" napisal w wiadomosci
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He didn't think the fly over was that impressive and, seeing the video
and having seen a previous Mach 3.2 fly over with fuel dump, I kind of
agree. He has the take off, too.

Sorry, Mary, but what is the elevation of said NASA/Dryden AFB? As I recall
your posts SR-71 is SUBSONIC up to 10k ft or so.

No one said it wasn't. The fly overs at Mach 3+ were made at
altitude, not on the (2400-ft MSL) deck. That's why they dump fuel
when exactly overhead, so you can see them. Well, and so you can time
how long it takes the boom to reach the surface, too, except that you
don't actually hear the boom from when it's overhead but from when
it's on down the flight track.

Dryden isn't an AFB; it's NASA and is a tenant at Edwards AFB, which
(obviously) belongs to the USAF.

Mary

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