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Speech by Brian Shul in Chico California in the Fall of 2001 Brian Shul is a Vietnam era USAF fighter pilot with 212 combat missions. He was shot down near the end of the war and was so badly burned that he was given next to no chance to live. He did live, went on to fly SR-71s and completed a...

SR-71 Pilot Maury Rosenberg talks about the one time he decided to request a "fly-by" over the Sacramento airport on his way returning to Beale AFB- where he was going to land... (there is also another interesting story in the comments, about 8 down today when sorted by top comments)...

Interesting stuff on the engine. Pratt & Whitney J58 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 80% ram jet / 20% turbojet at hi-speed.

Seems that piece was from Major Shul's book "Sled Driver". http://www.alibris.com/booksearch?title=sled+driver p.s. 60min/hr x 60smin/sec divided by 1.6m/sec = 2250mph (1955.2 knots)

This was not my story. It was sent to me and seemed good enough (by a wide margin) for a spot among this fine crowd. It took a few trys to find an internet version with credit -Major Brian Shul. Hopefully that is accurate. Perhaps those with thank-you's can edit their posts so as to credit...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sr-71

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Major Brian Shul: "I loved that jet" In April 1986, following an attack on American soldiers in a Berlin disco, President Reagan ordered the bombing of Muammar Qaddafi's terrorist camps in Libya. My duty was to fly over Libya and take photos recording the damage our F-111's had inflicted...

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