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One of my favorites. Here's Brian Shul telling the story live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lg73GKm7GgI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lg73GKm7GgI

• dgritsko 9y ago
  That was great, you can tell he really loves telling that story. Here's an excerpt from an interview with him [1] where he discusses telling it: > When I'm doing a talk, if I don't tell that speed check story, they run me out of town. I tried that one year, I thought, I've been speaking at this air museum for 10 years now, I'm gonna change it up this year. People lost their minds. I realized hey, Elvis has to sing Love Me Tender at the end of every show, I gotta tell that story no matter how many times I tell it. > And there's always people who've never heard it. I told it at an FBI conference the other day, out of 800 people I swear 700 had never heard it, and they were falling out of their chairs. [1]: https://newatlas.com/brian-shul-interview-sr-71-blackbird-pilot/46821/ https://newatlas.com/brian-shul-interview-sr-71-blackbird-pi...
• manigandham 9y ago
  Might as well link to the full talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wigZsFypdyI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wigZsFypdyI It's a great speech about overcoming his war injuries and getting to fly on of the most special planes in history, along with actually documenting most of it himself.
  • jonah 9y ago
    Lots of great photos in his slides.
• dmoy 9y ago
  It's a running gag on some websites now (apparently including hacker news) that whenever there's a mention of the sr71, that story gets posted. I still read it every time too.
  • Murdodc089 9y ago
    I'm almost certain someone created a bot on Reddit that automatically posts the story when anyone, anywhere on the site mentions the SR-71.
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  • lostlogin 9y ago
    I like to think I’m part of next best part - posting the ‘low and slow’ story that has to come second.