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- Jook, on 06/21/2009, -6/+253My brother told me a similar story when he was stationed at Vandenberg AFB as an Air Traffic Controller. Most Tower Controls don't actually illuminate the aircraft in their airspace here in the US, but rely on transponder info for heading, airspeed, altitude, etc. Some classified flights only broadcast International Friend or Foe(IFF) transponder readings, and mask the other info to shield the cause, or origin of the aircraft.(called Signal 1 traffic)
One of these crossed Vandenberg's airspace heading east, and since Vandenberg is restricted space, it was required that the pilot request clearance through the restricted area.
On the radio:
"Control, Sierra 23 requesting clearance to transit restricted airspace, Signal 1"
"Sierra 23, copy Signal 1. State requested transit altitude"
"Sierra 23 requests 90,000"
This is where the ATC heads all turn to look at each other. Did he say 90 thousand?
"Sierra 23, 90,000 is all yours!"
"Copy, Control, descending to 90,000"
And they all almost fell out of their chairs. It took 2 or 3 minutes for them to puzzle out that it was an SR-71 returning to Nellis AFB - Chairboy, on 06/22/2009, -0/+149"You've never been lost until you've been lost at Mach 3." - Paul Crickmore (SR-71 pilot)
- ksalminen, on 06/22/2009, -0/+147The bad-assery per sentence ratio in that story is off the charts.
- Samo89, on 06/21/2009, -2/+127i wanna give that guy a high five.....
- inactive, on 06/22/2009, -6/+104HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHWAYYYYYYYYY TOOOOOOOOOOOOO THE DAAAAAAAAAAAANGER ZOOOOOOONE
- SEN5241, on 06/22/2009, -3/+94“Los Angeles Center, STS 125, can you give us a ground speed check?”
- SPNKrPunk, on 06/22/2009, -1/+73And today, fellow diggers, we learn that all pilots are indeed just children with very expensive toys.
Myself included. - inactive, on 06/22/2009, -1/+53All men especially fighter jocks are in an eternal pissing contest over who can go the fastest and look the coolest doing it.
- zakool21, on 06/22/2009, -0/+44You mean all pilots?
Reminds me of a classic joke: "How do you know if there's a pilot at a party? They'll tell you."
I had to say that I was pretty much busting up laughing by the time I got to the end of that read. Regardless of whether I was piloting the 172 or another aircraft, this kind of stuff goes through pilots' minds quite often.
And, the blurbs about controller voices definitely ring true... You can often tell what kind of aircraft a pilot is flying based on his radio attitude, but just about all controllers sound the same. - proliance, on 06/22/2009, -0/+43When the wild blue yonder turns into the near black of the edge of space there's onlly one King of Speed.
The Blackbird. - Coven, on 06/22/2009, -3/+45The need to quote *****-erotic Tom Cruise movies?
- avatar28, on 06/22/2009, -2/+42"Roger STS 125. We are showing you at 16,500 knots across the ground."
:) - xxpor, on 06/22/2009, -0/+40maybe not when you are at 90000, and in an sr-71
- inactive, on 06/22/2009, -1/+31Before there was internet tough guy, there was cockpit tough guy.
- asgardshill, on 06/21/2009, -3/+31Great story! Nothing better than hearing about arrogant Bug drivers getting their noses rubbed in it.
- maz2331, on 06/22/2009, -0/+27Best line:
There was no hesitation, and the replay came as if was an everyday request. “Aspen 20, I show you at one thousand eight hundred and forty-two knots, across the ground.”
Those SR-71s could really haul ass. - scarwars, on 06/22/2009, -3/+30“Los Angeles Center, NCC-1701-D, can you give us a ground speed check?”
- FatD, on 06/22/2009, -1/+26Its from the book Sled Driver by by Brian Shul.
- Gonasadude, on 06/22/2009, -1/+25"No sir we can't, because your ship is going faster than our radar waves propagate."
- inactive, on 06/22/2009, -0/+23This really makes me want to be a fighter pilot :( There was a show in Canada called Jetstream that was rookie fighter pilots going through school. Very cool, its probably on youtube somewhere.
- djAnakin, on 06/22/2009, -1/+23Except that SR-71 cockpit tough guy actually IS a bad ass!
- monkiboi, on 06/22/2009, -1/+23What's your vector Victor?
- vroom101, on 06/22/2009, -0/+20SR-71B Blackbird, NASA 831: http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/gallery/Photo/SR-71/Large ... (www.dfrc.nasa.gov/gallery/Photo/SR-71/Large/EC94-42883-4.jpg) via http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/gallery/Photo/SR-71/HTML/ ... (www.dfrc.nasa.gov/gallery/Photo/SR-71/HTML/EC94-42883-4.html)
- DrummerAndrew, on 06/22/2009, -1/+20I found http://regulations.vlex.com/vid/flight-supersonic- ... to show that you can't go supersonic over the US. But then shortly after, I found http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/planes/q0060b ... which suggests that there are safe zones where they can test. It also suggests that altitude of the SR-71 can allow special cicumstances where they are allowed to fly supersonicly over land.
We need more supersonic civilian aircraft anyway. - mcberg182, on 06/22/2009, -1/+17umm... duh. you say it as if it's bad!
- lordspidey, on 06/22/2009, -1/+16Damn those planes are insanely awesome.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SR-71 - metalgel, on 06/22/2009, -0/+14ive heard many variations of that story, the airport and the altitude keeps changing. last time someone told me it was 80,000. just search for ATC Funnies on google and youll find all of these.
- mecharabbit, on 06/21/2009, -7/+21I feel the need...
- Sabin8, on 06/22/2009, -1/+15Now that is ***** bad-ass.
- pandaro, on 06/22/2009, -3/+16http://xkcd.com/37/
- Lane, on 06/22/2009, -0/+13I'm pretty sure 20 miles ABOVE land is close enough to 30 seeing as the atmosphere is paper thin up there and all.
- NJRFilms, on 06/22/2009, -1/+14This story gets posted 10-14 times a year across the web.
I read it every time and always get chills.
***** awesome. - jjohnstn, on 06/22/2009, -2/+14"Roger NCC-1701-D, we show you at warp 7.23 across <static>"
- mellonjollie, on 06/22/2009, -0/+12Ever since I saw the Blue Angels when I was a kid, I wanted to fly. As soon as I learned about the SR-71, it became my dream to pilot that beast. I proudly walked in a Air Force Recruiting office at 16 to proclaim my intentions and sign up but the recruiting officer stopped me in my tracks:
"Son, you're 6'4", you won't even fit in the cockpit."
Goddammit. - djAnakin, on 06/22/2009, -0/+12No you don't. We have a supersonic corridor just south of Echo Range [ECM testing] at China Lake.. which puts it mostly in Edwards airspace.
- morcheeba, on 06/22/2009, -0/+11Roger, roger.
- kayosthery, on 06/22/2009, -0/+10Fine... I'll do it
Negative Ghost Rider, the pattern is full. - STPZ, on 06/22/2009, -0/+10would you expect anything less from a flying batmobile??
- SeverTomorrow, on 06/22/2009, -0/+10Look at you and your fancy knowledge.
/s - GawtMilk, on 06/22/2009, -3/+13xkcd is NOT bad ass.
- inactive, on 06/22/2009, -0/+9I heard a chick shoot a guy down at a bar with that. It was ***** awesome.
- jjohnstn, on 06/22/2009, -0/+9That story and an even better SR-71 story at:
http://blogs.jobdig.com/wwds/2007/11/19/sr-71-now- ...
Can machines have a soul? I wonder.... - dlan4327, on 06/22/2009, -1/+9Tower this is Ghost Rider requesting a flyby
- Cloud7654, on 06/22/2009, -0/+7Thought it was 1842 knots, which is 2,120 mph.
- kayosthery, on 06/22/2009, -0/+7I would have thought Humor in Uniform.
- dafragsta, on 06/22/2009, -1/+81742 knots is 2,004 mph.
- DulcetTone, on 06/22/2009, -0/+7Ahh yes... I had the lasagne!
- therealrico, on 06/22/2009, -1/+8It is finding little gems like this, that I love reading digg
- Rev0pt, on 06/22/2009, -0/+7Awesome..
- STPZ, on 06/22/2009, -0/+7I speak jive
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