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I would gladly give my left nut to see this plane fly in person

Man wish I got one of these!

Design and speed is great...But the fact it leaks fuel while cold, cant carry weapons and has the manuverebility of an axe makes it pretty a useless. Its a nice technology test platform, but where is this tech adaptation now?

I was there that day with my dad. This was the day I realized what my favorite plane was and Still is.

My grandmas brother was flying that sr-71 at Oshkosh we call him uncle Rogers he has flown every jet aircraft you can think of even the x-15 and x-29 he used to fly jets over my dads house at full speed at like 400 feet

I was there.

Why dont sqirts out the propellant?

what a shame it had to exist in the first place, imagine how far along people could be if the money time and design was spent on peaceful means instead of fearing each other, but what a piece of gear.

story has it that Elvis is aboard

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My dad brought the whole family up to Oshkosh in the station wagon that day, and I got to see the fly-by! Boy howdy was it loud, even though we were watching from quite a good ways back. Surprised the mic held together as well as it did! It looks just as futuristically sci-fi now as it did back then. Super cool 😎

"That's what I call power" made me laugh!

Should never of retired absolute masterpiece of Aviation, such a beautiful badass aircraft, gone but never forgotten 🇺🇸🔥🔥

คนโบราณสมัยนั้นสามารถสร้างแบตเตอรี่ได้ให้ตายทีนี้มันเทคโนโลยีต่างดาวชัดๆเลย

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If I didn’t know better, I’d think they’d designed it for looks.

Cool plane! 👍✈️

RAW POWER 👍💪

She takes off at 4.25, then disappears into the mist, then, reappears after the mist has lifted a bit, with a few passes. Quiter than I expected.

Thank you for the video, I was a little kid there that day, it gives me goosebumps!! I was lucky to see/hear the SR-71!

They are just now developing combined cycle engines like this beauty had back then. It actually has a pseudo turbofan to high bypass ramjet engine developed with slide rules in the Skunk Works from the P&W J58.

My favorite military aircraft and all I can say is Thank You Kelly Johnson for your greatest creation from just using a slide rule.

I'm so grateful for CZcams holy shit

Lockheed does a dang good job at making amazing planes 

That beautiful beast is still gorgeous, long live The King.

Elegant bird of prey!!!

My Mom worked at Arrowhead Conveyor and we would often watch the show from the parking lot. Some years we would get tickets and some years not. I remember seeing the SR-71 this year and my Dad telling me how rare it was to witness this plane. I absolutely love aviation but deep down inside I'm terrified of flying. It's truly a love/hate relationship with me. On one hand I absolutely love it and think it's the greatest thing ever and on the other hand I'm scared 💩less.

That's ONE HELL of an aircraft!!!!!!!

I never get tired of seeing this beauty!!! Such a miraculous machine!!😍😍

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I went to an Air Show here at Dallas Love Field back in the 80's and on a static display they had the SR-71 Blackbird sitting right next to the U-2R Dragon Lady. My Best Friend and I got to watch both take off and leave for where ever they were going to. Seeing that was really impressive to watch. Plus they had the Blue Angels there and a B-1A and B-2 fly over with the Leap Frogs Parachute team from the Navy SEALS. talk about impressed. Got to talk with one of my old Lt's who was now a Marine Capt. from VMFA-112 the Cowboy Squadron there in his F/A-18A Hornet.

Such a shame these incredible birds were relegated to museums 😥😥😥

Beast mode. Baddest jet ever.

Saw it on the ground at Andrew’s AFB once as a static display, but never got to see it fly! 😕

Thank God for Kelly Johnson and slide rules!

Was 16 at this airshow. Watched her come in. Was a speck of pepper in the sky. Then she came down. Was the first year a Soviet AN-124 was @ a western airshow. I remember looking at the Russians on top of their airplane taking pictures, video and pointing with binoculars in hand. When they parked the SR nose to nose w/ the 124, THAT was a sight!

Crazy downside of this legend. It was notorious for leaking.. This legend was built for max pressure .. imagine its gaskets and seels not at top speeds.... wamp wamp..

What was the price? Hoping they come back in stock.

Compared to the Vulcan its a brick

The future in advance 🙌

The SR-71 is my favorite aircraft. Maybe not as heavily armed as the Eagle but it's gonna sneak up on them MiGs real quiet like and shoot them with its camera. My neighbor is an old F-4 Phantom pilot. He saw a little action in Vietnam. I keep telling him to write a book. He had his share of close calls and narrow escapes from MiGs. These are my 3 favorite aviation books: - Her Majesty's Top Gun by Sharkey Ward - Scream of Eagles by Robert Wilcox - Great Fighter Jets of the Galaxy 1 by Tim Gibson

Great footage of this grand old bird . If I'm right it still holds the fastest flight from an air force base somewhere in Florida to Farnborough England in less than 2hrs. That's impressive . Great footage

There’s an sr-71b at the air zoo in Kalamazoo MI, and I have to say, it’s actually a much smaller aircraft than I had imagined it to be.

I was there. It was an awesome display. Thanks for the memories.

沖縄の嘉手納基地に、配備された、米国空軍の偵察機 S R −７１ですね。　北朝鮮の高高度上空に侵入しては、偵察飛行していました。これって、領空侵犯ですよね。それなのに、主権国の日本政府は、黙認していたんです。　黒色の機体が、機密めいていて、につぼん人の軍事オタクには、堪りませんよね。そう言う輩が、自分達も欲しいと、再軍備を主張しているのです。

We were there that day..!!!

funny i can't link this great video footage to facebook , it keeps telling me it's spam.

Wow, what a great find tonight! I was there and remember them coming in from Beale as the announcer stated. Taxied up and shut down in front of us. Great video!

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I was there. It was fantastic! Oshkosh Express from Australia.