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10-01-07, 02:55 PM
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I liked this
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10-01-07, 02:58 PM
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Excellent, love these sort of posts
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Good stuff
The SR71 Blackbird is one of the most beautiful objects ever made. As Clarkson said in one of his books, it has soul |
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I remember as a kid, standing at RAF Fairford, gawping up at a parked SR71 with some liquid dripping out. At the tender age of about 10, I asked the incredibly cool (to my young eyes at least) USAF Guard what it was...
"That's fuel son" came the reply  Apparently, the tanks only seal and stop dripping at altitude when the friction of air over the body heats it up and the expansion fills the gaps. What an amazing thing to see and a memory still fresh in my mind 25 years later.
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10-01-07, 03:41 PM
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nice one and probs one of the top 5 best planes every but imagine having to keep it a shhhhhh secret
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10-01-07, 03:41 PM
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Wow, thats a cool story. I enjoyed reading that. The blackbird is an awesome piece of engineering
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10-01-07, 03:54 PM
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excellent
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10-01-07, 05:04 PM
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Just a slight aside:
Latin for Blackbird: Turdus turdus ........ |
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