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episode 91: Flying the SR-71 Blackbird
In this episode we discuss the world’s fastest and highest flying jet-powered aircraft ever built, the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird. Our guest is Col. (Ret) Richard Graham, a former SR-71 pilot. Our conversation is loosely based on his book Flying the SR-71, and we discuss the challenge of flying the SR-71. As a consequence of its unique capabilities and its engine and inlet design, the aircraft posed a number of very specific challenges on the pilot.
- Richard Graham (at habu.org)
- Book: SR-71 Revealed: The Inside Story
- Book: SR-71 Blackbird: Stories, Tales and Legends
- Book: Flying the SR-71 Blackbird: In the Cockpit On a Secret Operational Mission
- Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird
- Lockheed YF-12
- Myasishchev M-4 Bison
- Tupolev Tu-95 Bear
- Lockheed U-2
- Beale AFB
- RAF Mildenhall
- Kadena Air Base (Okinawa)
- Edwards AFB
- JP-7 Fuel
- Star Tracker
- Kelly Johnson
- Ring Laser Gyroscope
- INS
- Equivalent Airspeed
- Shock Wave
- Elevon
- SR-71 Engine Sketch
- Flameout
- Compressor Stall
- DME
- TACAN
- G-Suit
- Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk