Hangar Flying

[Del Rykert]

I loved it Bill....   

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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