Mayor From United States of America, joined Mar 2008, 9273 posts, RR: 13 Reply 2, posted (4 years 7 months 3 days 12 hours ago) and read 8911 times:
Interesting. Have recently read several books by people intimately involved in the Blackbird program, I wonder which of the pilots this is. One odd thing, tho. He states that his RSO is a Marine Major (Walt) but as far as I can tell, all crew members on actual AF missions were AF officers.
Read "Blackbird Rising" & "SR-71 Blackbird: Stories, Tales and Legends".
There are also several websites by people that were involved in the program.
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Scooter01 From Norway, joined Nov 2006, 1163 posts, RR: 8 Reply 3, posted (4 years 7 months 3 days 11 hours ago) and read 8893 times:
A neighbour and close friend of mine was stationed in Bodø, Norway, flying F and CF-104Gs in the 70s and 80s and has told some good stories after a few beers (you know old fighterpilots...)
Mayor From United States of America, joined Mar 2008, 9273 posts, RR: 13 Reply 4, posted (4 years 7 months 2 days 20 hours ago) and read 8788 times:
I think the SR-71 tribute might be a compilation of several different Blackbird stories. From the timeline in "SR-71 Blackbird: Stories, Tales and Legends" comes this timeline that doesn't quite match what is in the tribute:
15 Apr 1986 SR-71A #980 performs postbombing damage assessment flights of Libya in
support of Operation Eldorado Canyone; USAF Pilot Jerry Glasser/RSO Blair
Bozek.
The RSO's name doesn't match what is stated in the tribute.
Still a great tribute to a great a/c.
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