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GoneFishin
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MM Forget Maxine Check This
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7/20/2017 2:26:30 PM
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This Is Cool
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MrHodja
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MM Forget Maxine Check This
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7/20/2017 3:34:53 PM (updated 7/20/2017 3:37:04 PM)
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Glad to see a snowflake enjoys a little clean humor and recognition of the blackbird as the fastest air breathing machine of its era.
By the way, there is an SR-71 on static display at the Udvar-Hazy National Air and Space Museum close to Dulles Airport outside Washington, DC. If you are ever in the area it is well worth the trek out there. The SR-71 has some really cool company, to include the Space Shuttle Discovery and the Enola Gay, among many other notable Air and space vehicles and memorabilia.
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MartiniMan
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MM Forget Maxine Check This
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7/20/2017 5:17:55 PM
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Now that was cool and pretty dang funny. With GPS these days no one asks for their ground speed anymore. Thanks for sharing.
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MartiniMan
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MM Forget Maxine Check This
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7/20/2017 5:19:25 PM
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Hodja, not sure if you've ever been but the museum at Wright Pat in Dayton is one of the best aircraft museums I've been to and much better than the Smithsoneon.
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MrHodja
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MM Forget Maxine Check This
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7/20/2017 7:53:45 PM
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In the interest of full disclosure I haven't been to the one at Wright-Pattern, but have you been to the one by Dulles? I agree the one downtown on the Mall is nothing but tourists shoulder to shoulder and I never go there nor do I take any guests or family there. The Udvar-Hazy location is magnificent - SST, prototype Boeing 707, F-35 (with its drive train separated so you can see how the one engine drives the forward and rear fans), even the gondola Felix Baumgartner jumped out of at 100K+ feet to break the sound barrier in free fall. Well worth the ten or fifteen dollars it costs to park, entry is free.
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Talullahhound
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MM Forget Maxine Check This
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7/20/2017 8:21:42 PM
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I've been to the Smithsonian and the one by Dulles. The one at Wright Pat is awesome. I agree with Hodja about the Smithsonian - it's on all the lists of the tourists and it gets so crowded. But that do have that cool theatre when you can experince flying. Or they used to anyway.
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Old Diver
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Closer to Home
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7/21/2017 12:03:06 PM
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There is an A-21 on display at the Birminghan Aviation Museum. This is the original single seat interseptor version of what became the SR-71. It was designed to intersept the MIG-21. There is another one at the space museum in Huntsville.
There is a great book on this called the Skunk Works by Ben Rich.
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