Got to see a Blue Angels practice session...

[kompressornsc]

I got to climb all over an SR 71 @ the museum in Hutchinson KS a few years ago. Buddy of mine knew someone there. It was back in a storage shed, partially dismantled.

 

[hirosh]

nice pics mike. i think it's been 10 years since i last saw the blue angels. and just a couple years ago when i saw the thunderbirds. nothing like hearing the roar of jet fighter engines to swell your patriotism. now that's the sound of freedom! :usa

 

[J.J.]

I saw them last year at an air show. They were truely amazing. Fat Albert was also pretty freakin' awesome!



JJ

 

[imported_KevinA]

When I was stationed on Okinawa ('83 & '84), we had two SR-71s. I watched them take off numerous times. We had an air show one year and I got within a couple feet of one, they really are an awesome looking machine.



When I was a kid on Long Island, Grumman was a big outfit not far from where I lived. We would get sonic booms now and then. One time, while I was playing outside I heard jets flying really low, I looked up and saw the blue and gold of the Angels flying right over me (I might have been six or seven).

 

[percynjpn]

When I was stationed on Okinawa ('83 & '84), we had two SR-71s.

But of course, on Okinawa, they were usually called "Habu", after the feared local poisonous viper!! :soscared:

 

[imported_KevinA]

But of course, on Okinawa, they were usually called "Habu", after the feared local poisonous viper!! :soscared:

Yes they were!



I only saw a "Habu" slowing down once. You'd see this slim, black line in the sky and then he would bank it and you'd get the top view - totally awesome!

 

[Scottwax]

John, some of us arent that old to even know what a Sr-71 is.

J/K....I too, got to see one at a local airshow.....To this day, I still think it is he most awesome plane ever built......

My kids knew what an SR-71 was at a young age, they have one out front of the US Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama.