Hangar Flying

[JOddino]

Great story!
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Glaze" <billglaze at triad.rr.com>
To: "NSRCA discussion" <discussion at nsrca.org>
Sent: Saturday, December 14, 2002 2:28 PM
Subject: Hangar Flying


> Come to think of it........
> We were abeam Bakersfield, Calif. sometime ~ 1969, flying over a solid
> undercast which topped out around 14K feet or so.
> LAX Center called out traffic: "United, traffic at your 9:00 position,
> xxx miles, ground speed zero."
> We looked at each other, wondering why the controller would call out a
> target with zero ground speed; the distance given said it had to be out
> of Edwards AFB.
> But, we looked.
> Suddenly, out of the top of the undercast, like a rocket, came a SR-71.
> Sure enough, his ground speed was zero.
> He was going straight up, and did so until he was no longer throwing a
> trail that we could see.  Out of sight, vertically.
> Talk about unlimited vertical!
> We thanked the controller for us.  He was doing us a favor, I'm sure.
> We didn't even have time to tell the passengers.
> Off subject; hope nobody minded.
> 
> Bill Glaze
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