Hangar Flying

[Bill Glaze]

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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