Awesome aircraft. Knew a pilot that flew them but he sure wouldn’t say much to avoid having to eliminate me. My youngest daughter and I were at the beach near Patrick AFB in Cocoa Beach one day in the late 90’s and an SR had made a stop there for some technical issue. We were on the beach when it left and once it got over the ocean, it went full afterburner and WOW did that thing move. Awesome. Kind of brought a tear to my eye. What a country this used to be.
Wow!! How much more roar does the SR-71 make with full afterburner than compared to say one of the standard AF or Navy jets?
Well said. And well even before the SR, we produced the X-15.