Because Blackbird

"davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com" (davesaddiction) 03/16/2015 at 15:46 • Filed to: Sweet home

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Yup.

There was a big boat, too.

For Sweden > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 03/16/2015 at 15:49

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That's an Oxcart bruh

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 03/16/2015 at 15:54

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A Flying Banana, also known as a Shawnee (Piasecki H21). Weird-looking bastards, they are.

raitchison > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 03/16/2015 at 15:54

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dat battleship

SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 03/16/2015 at 15:54

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Dat ass...

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 03/16/2015 at 16:22

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This thing had me confused, because I didn't remember that the later Sabres had totally different noses on them. Turns out, they do.

BoxerFanatic, troublesome iconoclast. > For Sweden 03/16/2015 at 18:39

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yup. CIA A12 for "Project Oxcart" to design a U2-successor, was a single-seat earlier-design aircraft. "A-" was indicative of the "Archangel" CIA internal codename for all of the aircraft design proposals.

Only 1 of the 13 A-12s, "the Titanium Goose", was a twin-seat trainer, with a raised forward-view second cockpit, all others were single-seat. Two later USAF SR-71B trainer aircraft were similarly configured for higher second pilot cockpits, rather than SR-71A Reconnaissance Systems Officer, M-21 Launch Control Officer, and YF-12 Weapons Control Officer cockpits that had no direct forward view.

But all 13 A-12s, 2 M-21 motherships for the D-12 drones, and 3 prototype USAF YF-12A interceptor aircraft, and the 32 later USAF recon SR-71s (cooperating with CIA missions, and NASA aeronautical research missions) models are collectively referred to by most as Blackbirds... but also known by the japanese-coined nickname Habu to the aircrews, the japanese name for a snake that they thought the aircraft resembled when it was stationed there during the Vietnam era.

Interestingly... the sole SR-71C, AF Ser. No. 61-7981, was actually re-commissioned from the back half of YF-12A prototype #1 (60-6934) that had front end damage from a landing accident, joined with the front-half of an SR-71A static test frame fuselage... but would yaw at high speed, like a 'cut-and-shut' that won't quite go perfectly straight.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > BoxerFanatic, troublesome iconoclast. 03/16/2015 at 19:44

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Droppin' knowledge...

The Compromiser > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 03/16/2015 at 21:19

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hey guys? Guys? I left my keys inside. Guys? C'mon. This shit ain't funny. Guys!

.....fuck you guys. Assholes... if I had guns I'd show you...