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Mar 16, 2008 | 09:30 AM

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Mar 16, 2008 | 09:42 AM

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thanks!

Mar 16, 2008 | 03:11 PM

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This one is near me in DC at the Air and Space museum.

http://www.sr-71.org/photogallery/blackbird/17972/

Mar 16, 2008 | 10:56 PM

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Nice read. BTW, what is the insignia above the skunk on the tail in the second link you provided? Curious.

Mar 17, 2008 | 06:28 AM

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Originally Posted by ro11dice' post='546123' date='Mar 17 2008, 01:56 AM

Nice read. BTW, what is the insignia above the skunk on the tail in the second link you provided? Curious.

This one?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Materiel_Command

Mar 17, 2008 | 06:29 AM

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Originally Posted by ro11dice' post='546123' date='Mar 17 2008, 02:56 AM

Nice read. BTW, what is the insignia above the skunk on the tail in the second link you provided? Curious.

Edited: Just saw someone answered.

Mar 17, 2008 | 11:51 AM

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Originally Posted by ImolaRedM' post='546235' date='Mar 17 2008, 06:28 AM

This one?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Materiel_Command

Yup, that's it. I used to live on an USAF base and this one is new to me.

Mar 21, 2008 | 12:18 PM

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Thanks for the link. I am still in awe of the SR-71. Not only is it the fastest airplane ever, it was built nearly 50 years ago and STILL has no equals, nothing even close....

One cool fact the article didn't mention is that Lockheed went thru a separate private company to buy the titanium ore for the plane from the Russians!!!
They then had to invent the necessary titatium manufacturing to build the planes.

Today I have a titanium watch but they still haven't surpased the SR-71.

Mar 21, 2008 | 08:57 PM

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