Broken Bird

"f86sabre" (f86sabre) 05/29/2014 at 21:06 • Filed to: Planelopnik

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We all envision the Blackbird with afterburners blazing while rocking across undisclosed locations at Mach 3+. Like any thoroughbred they were finicky beasts. Sometimes it went great. Sometimes it didn't. Luckily, for the pilots of this one, they got it slowed down and were able to get out. More !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!!

Brian Silvestro > f86sabre 05/29/2014 at 21:07

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Well that's just really depressing.

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > f86sabre 05/29/2014 at 21:18

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You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much > f86sabre 05/29/2014 at 22:35

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The blackbird is one amazing plane. The safety record considering that it was designed with slide rules is amazing. AFAIK there was only one pilot lost and that was because he drowned after safely ejecting at sea. That incident was due to a failure while launching the M-21(?) drone when it collided with the Blackbird after separation. Do you know how many airframes were lost?

pdthedeuce > You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much 05/29/2014 at 22:56

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this tell the story of a lost airman after a supersonic breakup of a Blackbird... http://www.barthworks.com/aviation/sr71b…

f86sabre > You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much 05/30/2014 at 06:17

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Per Wikipedia they lost 12 of the 32 built.

You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much > pdthedeuce 05/30/2014 at 11:12

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That is an amazing story, thanks.

pdthedeuce > You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much 05/31/2014 at 00:54

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