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Max is going to be pissed
about this, but I just had to share this log from last night with you all.
Maybe he was drinking or
something. The non-bullshit is in blue.
Mad_Max63: I
will give them
credit for requesting the last 4 SR71's that the Air Force had..
Mad_Max63: the most amazing plane ever built
DrForreste: yes i am familiar with your passion for the Blackbird... I am thinking
maybe the penis shape has something to do with it
SLi: LMAO
DrForreste: cause that's what sends me
Mad_Max63 wonders if you are right
SLi: I know its arguably my fave ;)
Mad_Max63: I saw one fly when I was a kid
DrForreste: cool
Mad_Max63: My father was stationed at Tindel AFB
Mad_Max63: the thing sits on the tarmac with fuel leaking out of its wings
SLi: ohh that sounds safe
Mad_Max63: and that is normal
DrForreste: ?
Mad_Max63: the skin tightens up with speed and altitude
(FACT: The plane does indeed leak fuel while on the ground.
The blackbird stretches about 6 inches during flight, due to the massive temperatures
on its titanium hull, 600-900 degrees Fahrenheit.)
Mad_Max63: and it does both very well
Mad_Max63: they needed 5 million for parts to keep them in the inventory. Uncle
Bill said no way...idiot
(FACT: In 1968, then Secretary of Defense Robert
McNamara ordered its tooling destroyed as a consequence of changed Defense Department
priorities, and that made it impossible to build another or supply parts. Clinton
line-item vetoed funding for the SR-71 in 1997: "These are the items for which
we don't really have a military requirement," Deputy Defense Secretary John
Hamre told a news briefing in Washington, referring to all of the vetoed items,
which included the SR-71. Each SR-71 mission costs about $200,000.)
Mad_Max63: So NASA saved them
(FACT: Indeed, NASA has the only three remaining operational
SR-71s. They are used primarily for space shuttle research.)
DrForreste: what was their mission?
DrForreste: photos?
DrForreste: going fast and flying high is cool but
Mad_Max63: yes
DrForreste: we have satellites better equipped for that now don't we?
Mad_Max63: they used them in dessert storm because they could keep them over
the battlefield
(FACT: No SR-71s were used in the Gulf War. The program
was terminated on Nov. 22, 1989, more than a year before the Gulf War. They
were brought back by Congress in September 1994.)
Mad_Max63: satellites still have to orbit and can't always be in the right place
(FACT: Geosynchronous orbit keeps satellites in the same
position above the earth. That's what "geosynchronous" means. Duh.)
Mad_Max63: they also can fly under high cloud cover that satelites can't penitrate
(FACT: SR-71s normally fly at around 80,000 feet. Never,
ever below clouds, where one could be shot down relatively easily.)
Mad_Max63 feels his perpeller spinning
DrForreste: that didn't help much
DrForreste: if i recall clouds fucked that whole thing up regardless
Mad_Max63: pretty much
Mad_Max63: but the blackbirds played an important part
(FACT: Not a single SR-71 flew between March
1990 and July
1991, anywhere, period. Desert Storm was in March 1991.)
DrForreste: if you say so
DrForreste: news to me
Mad_Max63: It was low key.. There were only 6 of them
(FACT: One Blackbird can survey 100,000 square miles in
one hour. That area is many times larger than the entire Desert Storm
Theatre.)



























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