FighterControl

Speed is king most if NOT all of the time land, sea, and in this case air. http://oppositelock.jalopnik.com/favori ... 1079127041

Very cool , Thanks for posting.

Would love a copy of that book

ChrisGlobe wrote:Would love a copy of that book

That makes two of us Chris... maybe I'll treat myself one day..!

I have a copy. An eBay bargain at £27. Read it over and over. Man and machine worked seamlessly.

I have The Untouchables book by Brain Shul an Walter Watson.
Great read,

Mark.

I picked up a signed copy of sled driver from the publishers website mid 2013 (Gallery One). Was about 300 hundred US dollars inc postage but well worth it.

MikeB wrote:

ChrisGlobe wrote:Would love a copy of that book

That makes two of us Chris... maybe I'll treat myself one day..!

If you click the Amazon link in the website, one is selling for $11000!

ChrisGlobe wrote:

MikeB wrote:

ChrisGlobe wrote:Would love a copy of that book

That makes two of us Chris... maybe I'll treat myself one day..!

If you click the Amazon link in the website, one is selling for $11000!

Insane! - Last time I looked you can pick up copies on eBay for £300ish I think it was. If one comes up a little more reasonably priced, I may be tempted!

Great story in the original post btw, there's so many awesome untold stories from all types of aviators that we never hear - shame.

I sold my unsigned copy of ‘Sled Driver’ at one of these museum events for £20!

A brilliant read!!

I remember this being posted previously of Brian speaking at an event in Paris http://youtu.be/o_Gyd6EYuXI..... I also remember that I didn't get much work done that day .....

Great story

anyone know which small airfield that was?

Cranwell

ah! I see. The way the story read it was sounding more like Headcorn, or Popham!

Mike as you know I have a some friends that flew the Blackbird that I met in California they showed me photos and stories, many they have are amazing, I wonder how many will never be told to anyone. I hope more get shared instead of lost.

I actually used some in my cold war topic at school My teacher was amazed!

Excellent Stories.

I have read/got

Lockheed SR71 The secret missions exposed and
SR-71 Blackbird both by Paul F. Crickmore.

Blackbird Rising by D A Byrnes and K D Hurley

and

Skunk Works by Ben R. Rich

All are excellent reads.
It's what 'we' used to do before the days of the Internet and Youtube !

I also had the pleasure of seeing the Blackbird returning from a mission during the early 80's (i'm guessing here).
I was then about to knock at my mates door, looked up and !!!!!!!
He answered the door and thought i'd turned into some kind of lunatic until he looked as well.

Not something you see every day.

Sometimes working in a library helps. Came home with Sled Driver tonight to add to the reading pile

I read sled driver,ordered it from my local library,okay it's not the same has owning it,but at least i read it.

ian

There's a new Crickmore's book coming out next week about the SR-71s faster father the A-12.