Hangar Flying

[Arthur Morton]

Bill,

Reminds me of when I was in the traffic pattern at Osan in Korea and I 
heard Blackbird xxx, calling the tower - out of flight level 
seven-zero-zero for landing!

Ray Morton

Bill Glaze wrote:

>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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