SR-71--Now my Cobra feels Flaccid!

[olddog]

Great reading and a sexy story, but I have to tell you, I think it was internet BS. Sorry to be the party pooper.

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As inconceivable as it may sound, I once discarded the plane. Literally. My first encounter with the SR-71 came when I was 10 years old in the form of molded black plastic in a Revell kit. Cementing together the long fuselage parts proved tricky, and my finished product looked less than menacing. Glue,oozing from the seams, discolored the black plastic. It seemed ungainly alongside the fighter planes in my collection, and I threw it away.

Twenty-nine years later, I stood awe-struck in a Beale Air Force Base hangar, staring at the very real SR-71 before me.

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Ronald Regan declassified the SR71 in the 1980's, when this guy claimed to be flying the SR71 (the bombing of Libia was in the 1980's). 29 years before this, there were no plastic models to build as it was a clasified air craft at that time. Many other statement sounded quite fishy to me as well.

But if a SR71 doesn't give you a mental woody, you are not a man.

PS doing the math 29 years before the mid 1980's puts you in the mid 1950's. I do not think the SR71 was even a wild thought in the designers mind.