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  • #16
    Originally posted by Forever_frost View Post
    And was the baddest plane ever built. Nothing can touch it
    You're right. I once went on a tour and was within feet of the SR-71. I reached out from about 28 inches away slowly moving towards it in a trance state of mind with my arm out. I could slowly feel my insides starting to bubble as if my stomach was housing an unstable nitroglycerin plant. If I got any closer I am pretty sure I would have exploded fortunately, it was around that time a man dressed in all black jumped out of no where and tackled me to the ground. To this day I truly don't know what would have happened if I actually touched it.
    Originally posted by Cmarsh93z
    Don't Fuck with DFWmustangs...the most powerfull gang I have ever been a member of.

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    • #17
      Originally posted by 347Mike View Post
      You're right. I once went on a tour and was within feet of the SR-71. I reached out from about 28 inches away slowly moving towards it in a trance state of mind with my arm out. I could slowly feel my insides starting to bubble as if my stomach was housing an unstable nitroglycerin plant. If I got any closer I am pretty sure I would have exploded fortunately, it was around that time a man dressed in all black jumped out of no where and tackled me to the ground. To this day I truly don't know what would have happened if I actually touched it.
      Ha!
      "If I asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses." - Henry Ford

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      • #18
        Originally posted by Forever_frost View Post
        We really should have space based lasers to take down missiles and orbital bombardment systems
        You honestly think we don't already have that?
        When the government pays, the government controls.

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        • #19
          Originally posted by 347Mike View Post
          You're right. I once went on a tour and was within feet of the SR-71. I reached out from about 28 inches away slowly moving towards it in a trance state of mind with my arm out. I could slowly feel my insides starting to bubble as if my stomach was housing an unstable nitroglycerin plant. If I got any closer I am pretty sure I would have exploded fortunately, it was around that time a man dressed in all black jumped out of no where and tackled me to the ground. To this day I truly don't know what would have happened if I actually touched it.
          I've touched one. I didn't even get tackled, lame.

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          • #20
            Originally posted by Craizie View Post
            I've touched one. I didn't even get tackled, lame.
            Me too. Nothing exciting happened.

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            • #21
              A Cadet Commander from my AFJROTC (graduated a few years before me) grew up to pilot the SR-71 and eventually became a Shuttle Commander. His mom was my High School history teacher. The Blackbird currently on display at the National Air and Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center has his name on it as it's last commander.

              He's a pretty cool guy. He now works at ATK, the company that builds the solid rocket boosters for the shuttle and the new Space Launch System (SLS) rocket that will be more powerful than the Saturn V.

              James D. Halsell - Wikipedia
              http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_D._Halsell

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              • #22
                Originally posted by Forever_frost View Post
                We really should have space based lasers to take down missiles and orbital bombardment systems
                Just because Clinton renamed the SDI doesn't mean it was scrubbed. I believe it's been renamed twice since as well.
                How do we forget ourselves? How do we forget our minds?

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                • #23
                  We do not need anything like this for spying. Satellites pretty much have that market cornered now. I would think that destroying other countries satellites would be of great interest if it hit the fan.

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                  • #24
                    Originally posted by Geor! View Post
                    Just because Clinton renamed the SDI doesn't mean it was scrubbed. I believe it's been renamed twice since as well.
                    I was actually thinking something like a Death Star.
                    I wear a Fez. Fez-es are cool

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                    • #25
                      Figure this was as good as a place as any to share this on.

                      Flying the world's fastest plane: Behind the stick of the SR-71

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                      • #26
                        Originally posted by Jose View Post
                        Figure this was as good as a place as any to share this on.

                        Flying the world's fastest plane: Behind the stick of the SR-71
                        Check the link in the first post for more reading than you'll know what to do with:
                        SR-71 cutaway drawing - with a gift for all of you - DFW Mustangs
                        http://www.dfwmustangs.net/forums/showthread.php?t=52517
                        Any real aviation nerd knows of the book Sled Driver by Brian Shul (SR-71 pilot). It's been out of print forever - only 3200 copies were printed in 1994. Used copies if you can ever find it will set you back hundreds of dollars. A rare 'new' copy will be many thousand dollars. http://www.amazon.com/Sled-Driver-Flying-Worlds

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                        • #27
                          women in suspended animation being Bred to aliens

                          Originally posted by Jewrrick View Post
                          I'm referring to its purpose not design.
                          The gene pool has gone stale, were being upgrading.
                          Don't worry about what you can't change.
                          Do the best you can with what you have.
                          Be honest, even if it hurts.

                          "Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy; Its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery" ... Winston Churchill

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                          • #28
                            Originally posted by YALE View Post
                            The SR-71 wasn't orbital, and didn't carry bombs. We can keep going.
                            That was what the SR-72 was supposed to do, but they never finished the upgrades.

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                            • #29
                              Originally posted by jyro View Post
                              The gene pool has gone stale, were being upgrading.
                              Is that like making caking?
                              Originally posted by BradM
                              But, just like condoms and women's rights, I don't believe in them.
                              Originally posted by Leah
                              In other news: Brent's meat melts in your mouth.

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                              • #30
                                It landed Friday morning. 675 days in orbit.


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