Lone_RT_rider Posted January 12, 2018 Share Posted January 12, 2018 This has been around a while, but every time you think Shawn Link to comment
Bud Posted January 12, 2018 Share Posted January 12, 2018 I tried to catch Bernie one day and found out I wasn't fast, in fact, I wasn't even able to keep up enough to ride sweep. Link to comment
EffBee Posted January 12, 2018 Share Posted January 12, 2018 I live by this concept. I'm not as fast as I used to be. And I didn't used to be fast. Link to comment
LittleBriar Posted January 13, 2018 Share Posted January 13, 2018 Hadn't seen it before. Literally laughed out loud. Link to comment
Bud Posted January 13, 2018 Share Posted January 13, 2018 I live by this concept. I'm not as fast as I used to be. And I didn't used to be fast. Words to live by. The older I get, the slower I go, but it seems faster than ever. Link to comment
Skywagon Posted January 13, 2018 Share Posted January 13, 2018 Similar...I tell people I start off slow and taper off from there. Link to comment
Lone_RT_rider Posted January 13, 2018 Author Share Posted January 13, 2018 That is hilarious! That link is awesome isn't it? I couldn't stop giggling for about 15 minutes. Link to comment
Indy Dave Posted January 13, 2018 Share Posted January 13, 2018 Great story, thanks for sharing! Link to comment
ltljohn Posted January 13, 2018 Share Posted January 13, 2018 Love that! Here is a LINK to an article describing what it's like to fly the SR71 from the same pilot. Link to comment
realshelby Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 The SR 71 was hand drawn and drafted to get it right from there. In todays world of finite analysis and CAD some have said they cannot believe that it was designed the way it was. Still the most beautiful aircraft ever. Still the fastest ( we probably don't know exactly how fast it has actually gone...). From an age where "that won't work, you can't do that, and it doesn't meet all the safety protocols" were not in the vocabulary. Sort of like landing and bringing back a man from the Moon! Link to comment
szurszewski Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 The SR 71 was hand drawn and drafted to get it right from there. In todays world of finite analysis and CAD some have said they cannot believe that it was designed the way it was. Still the most beautiful aircraft ever. Still the fastest ( we probably don't know exactly how fast it has actually gone...). From an age where "that won't work, you can't do that, and it doesn't meet all the safety protocols" were not in the vocabulary. Sort of like landing and bringing back a man from the Moon! That's the sort of stuff my grandfather did for Boeing and it's pretty amazing. He didn't talk about it much - hardly at all really - but I know he worked on parts of the design for the eventually scrapped Boeing SST, parts of the space shuttle system and the propulsion systems for the Saturn V (which is the only one I remember him talking about). My grandfather primarily worked for Boeing in Seattle, but he was part of the team that went to Huntsville for the Saturn V project and we were lucky enough to get to visit the Rocket Center there last year. My grandfather died before my son, now nine, was born, but while we were there we happened to meet a gentleman who'd worked with my grandfather...so, standing in a rather large room under a rather large rocket, my son got to hear about what his great-grandfather had done. It was pretty amazing. Hard to imagine all the pencil and paper calculations that planned those things out, and then all the hand built and measured components coming together to make it. ...and I think Jeremiah got a kick out of learning that the huge ring of sensors and computers controlling the directional system had less processing power than his cell phone wrist watch. Link to comment
mickeym3 Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 What a great video, if that doesn't make you laugh you'd better check your pulse. Saw my first Blackbird in 1972, made an emergency landing at a northern Thailand airport and all of us were in complete awe. Since I've traveled a lot, worked for Boeing 31 years and still during our summers in OR and WA I swing by the Evergreen Space and Aviation museum (McMinneville OR) and stand next to one, still in complete awe. Link to comment
chrisd Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 Soon after- LA Center, space shuttle Columbia, you got a ground speed readout for us? Link to comment
Lone_RT_rider Posted January 17, 2018 Author Share Posted January 17, 2018 Soon after- LA Center, space shuttle Columbia, you got a ground speed readout for us? Link to comment
Recommended Posts
Create an account or sign in to comment
You need to be a member in order to leave a comment
Create an account
Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!
Register a new accountSign in
Already have an account? Sign in here.
Sign In Now