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... Edwards AFB , Calif., was the scene of 3 air records set by pilots in the SR-71. Maj. Adolphus (Pat) Bledsoe, Jr., pilot, with Maj. John Fuller as reconnaissance system manager, flew the SR-71 at 3400 kph, surpassing the previous "absolute" (on a straight course) speed record of ... USAF Col. R.L. Stephens in a Lockheed YF-12A interceptor (prototype sister ship of SR-71). On the same day, Capt. Elden Joersz, pilot, with Maj. George T. Morgan, Jr ...

... with the safety professionals who were there. Charles S. Charlie Harlan was the Director of SR & QA Safety, Reliability, and Quality Assurance Office here at the time, and he did a ... panel. So, my responsibility was twofold. It was to Charlie Harlan as the head of SR & QA. It was to the Center Director, who had overall oversight of everything that was ... that flights were going to proceed safely and all that. I also coordinated with the SR & QA folk up at Marshall, and down at NASA Stennis Space Center, Mississippi and Kennedy ...

... Geographic Magazine An article in Air Combat dealt with NASA's use of the Lockheed SR-71A Blackbird, which the military retired from use. Several top military officers commented that the ... 's constantly changing battle plans. NASA used its three YF-12As, the predecessors of the SR-71As, in the 1970s and got much data on high-speed flight. Currently, NASA was using its SR-71As similarly because they were excellent for testing equipment and new materials in a moderately ...

... reconnaissance air-craft to be employed by Strategic Air Command : "This system employs the new SR-71 aircraft and provides a long-range, advanced strategic reconnaissance plane for military use capable ... situations in which the United States military forces may be confronting foreign military forces. "The SR-71 uses the same J-58 engine as the experimental interceptor previously announced, but it ...

... Laboratory ''(MOL)''. ''(M&R, 1/4/65, 26)'' USAF's new strategic reconnaissance plane, the SR-71 , made its maiden flight at Palmdale, Calif., exceeding an altitude of 45,000 ft ... very successful; all test objectives were met. Powered by two J-58 jet engines, the SR-71 would eventually fly at more than 2,000 mph and above 80,000 ft. The Lockheed-built plane was flown by civilian test pilot Bob Gilliland. In 1965, the SR-71 would be assigned to Strategic Air Command ''(SAC)'' at Beale AFB, Marysville, Calif. ''(DOD ...

... facility in California's San Joaquin Valley. (NASA Release 92-28) NASA reported that an SR-71A "Blackbird" research aircraft will test a key propulsion system for the X-30 National AeroSpace Plane (NASP). The SR-71A would act as a high-speed testbed to prove the concept of burning hydrogen ... as a way to improve overall flight efficiency. If the program operations received approval, the SR-71A would be modified and flown at NASA Ames-Dryden Flight Research Facility , Edwards, California ...

... , naturally, and he’s a former fighter pilot. It turned out we were flying the SR-71 that day, and so I was able, when it was coming smoking back, he ... him on radar and intercepted and pulled up alongside, let him fly it, you know, SR-71, as mysterious an airplane to the Russians. As a matter of fact, Borisev had been flying MiG-23s up near the Baltic Sea , an interceptor aircraft, making passes at SRs flying by, trying to intercept it, which he didn’t succeed much because it was ...

... . ''(M&R, 8/3/64, 32)'' Discussing President Johnson's July 24 announcement of the SR-71 mach 3 aircraft under development for SAC, Robert Hotz editorialized in Aviation Week: ". .. The SR-71 was, of course, the A-11 YF-12A with still another designation pasted on ...

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