Inside the SR-71

bigdave03svt

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Its scary as hell to think about whats flying around up there now when this MFer was cruising Mach 3 in the 70's........So bad ass!:banana:
 

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Their "avionics" were a 16mm film strip projected on a tiny 5 inch screen.

There was no horsing around on THAT airplane.
 

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Friggin awesome. The PVD laser to show the horizon/cockpit orientation was some cool engineering. Such high technology at the time to show something so simple as to where the bird was in respect to the horizon.
 

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This is awesome! Modern military aviation never ceases to amaze me.
 

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This is very cool. We always passed March Air force Base going to see my grandparents and always saw one of these in their museum as we passed. Grew up loving this plane
 

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Can you imagine what they are flying currently if the tech on a plane this old was so advanced?
 

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