| Author | Message | ||
     Whistler |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OG2p-Wap3M | ||
| Buellkowski |
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| Brother_in_buells |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1Pp620yEOI | ||
| Jb2 |
And here I thought this was a political thread. This is nothing but testosterone drivel and spent fuel. Sheesh! | ||
| Oldog |
I thought afterburners were about burritos.. | ||
| Jb2 |
I love burritos! But I like enchiladas better. Can we use a flame on those? | ||
| Mr_grumpy |
Once had a Blackbird take off over my head from Mildenhall, I was driving a panel van at night at the time, both me & the dog thought the world was ending. Only thing visible was the line of dancing diamonds in the dark, but the NOISE was indescribable. | ||
| Fast1075 |
The Blackbird is Badass dipped in Awesome, and sprinkled with Freakin' Unreal. | ||
| Leftcoastal |
My ex-partner's next door neighbor used to work on the Blackbird project as a mechanic/fabricator. Once most of it was de-classified he used to tell some cool stories. I'd like to hear more, but he passed away a couple years back. One he told was the Blackbird was on a mission and had a couple warning lights come on and he dropped sub-sonic as a precaution. He was over the Mediterranean somewhere, and someone got in an airspace snit and sent over a couple fighters to wave him to land. Pilot wasn't about to turn over something that cost that much, and didn't 'exist', so he lit her back up and headed for the base in England somewhere. Pilot was standing on the tarmac, plane parked, 6 minutes later. Not sure they ever really said how fast that plane could REALLY fly. | ||
| Danger_dave |
Now we're talkin! Although 'my' afterburner has some connotation of a large feed of Mexican food. | ||
| Danger_dave |
>>And here I thought this was a political thread. This is nothing but testosterone drivel and spent fuel. Sheesh! << yeah! - I'd much rather listen to a talking head complaining....errr...wait.... | ||
| Danger_dave |
Just been thinking about it - the first one I saw in person was an F-111 - it just stood up vertically - straight up and kept going. Awesomeness. | ||
| Whistler |
Now that you point it out I see the title "DD's Afterburner" should be reconsidered. Although it may be tempting, I'm not sure videos of that specific action would be necessary. | ||
| Crusty |
Here you go!  | ||
| Ourdee |
Mr_grumpy, Was it in the early eighties? I was over at Lakenheath. Could hear them over there. | ||
| Danger_dave |
Jalapeņo heaven. | ||
| Mr_grumpy |
Yup Ourdee, be 84/85 ish, I lived just North of Thetford at the time & ran up & down to London every day for Anglia TV. Blackbird flew from Mildenhall (at night), but in those days just about anything with wings passed through there sometime or other. I could tell you some stories about parties on base there. Happy days. | ||
| Britchri10 |
Upper Heyford was our USAF contact point. My aunt worked there in the PX. I remember the F111's passing overhead on their way to Libya, way back when Fun times..... Chris C |
