B-25 recovered from the local lake when I was in high school. Dolittle radiers used the lake and islands for practice runs. This is one of the many planes that were ditched in the lake.
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This question is mostly for will, did the SR-71 leave contrails, and wouldn't that be an easy way for our adversaries to spot one streaking across the sky?
I saw a fast moving plane this weekend, grabbed my 80-400mm lens and it had the shape of a B-1. from the naked eye the B-1 looked faster than a normal jet, I'd bet the blackbird would be easy to spot as it left it's white skid mark in the sky.
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Originally posted by Eric View PostThis question is mostly for will, did the SR-71 leave contrails, and wouldn't that be an easy way for our adversaries to spot one streaking across the sky?
I saw a fast moving plane this weekend, grabbed my 80-400mm lens and it had the shape of a B-1. from the naked eye the B-1 looked faster than a normal jet, I'd bet the blackbird would be easy to spot as it left it's white skid mark in the sky.
On other flights pilots were known to dump a little fuel to "Say Hi" as they flew over targets they knew couldn't get them. The Russians would launch fighters to intercept them from time to time, only to end up losing the fighters after they tried to zoom climb to max altitude of about 60K feet so they could take pot shots with missiles at the SRs as they'd pass by. The missiles always missed and more often than not the fighters that would try and hit them would flame out and tumble back to earth forcing the pilots to punch out.
I've only seen a B1 fly once, and it happened to be at Edwards AFB the same day that the SR71 flew for the very last time. It was pretty cool.
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I would not go to embry riddle. Do A LOT OF RESEARCH before dumping serious cash on that school!
Good stuff Will, I searched around a bit and learned that at the altitude they flew at, it was usually warmer and contrails were less likely to happen. Your stories are better than the googling though! Oh yeah, I've seen plenty of bones taking off/landing in qatar... those suckers are LOUD.
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