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Got to see one of these in person along with the engines and external starter engines at Seattle's Museum of Flight. UNREAL especially for 1960 era technology.
by Scuds 13y ago
Got to see one of these in person along with the engines and external starter engines at Seattle's Museum of Flight.
UNREAL especially for 1960 era technology.
- wiredfool 13y agoThe Blackbird there is an M-21, which has a pylon on the top for launching drones. Though, they do have the cockpit of an SR71 that went off the end of a runway and was totalled. There's also a Blackbird at Dulles, in the Udvar Hazy Air and Space annex. That one's an SR71. The concordes are amazing too. They look sooo spindly, until you're right up close to those engines. (and hmm, both museums have concordes too. But the Seattle one lets you walk through the inside.)
- lotharbot 13y ago> "the Seattle one lets you walk through the inside" As long as the weather is nice enough. We had to close down if there was either a threat to safety (lightning, ice on the stairs) or a lot of moisture getting inside the aircraft. As a bonus, you can also walk through Eisenhower's Air Force One aircraft and see a lot of other cool stuff. Apparently in the summer they even open the 747 prototype, one of the 727s, and the Super Connie: http://www.museumofflight.org/airpark http://www.museumofflight.org/airpark (I used to work in the museum, and later volunteered to monitor those two aircraft. Never got to see inside the 747 though.)