fklein(at)orcasonline.com
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 Posted: Fri Jan 01, 2010 5:57 pm Post subject: low pass enroute to Mildenhall, part 2 |
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Sorry guys, on my previous post, I left off the last two paragraphs of
the story...here's the end:
As we retired to the equipment room to change from space suits to
flight suits, we just sat there-we hadn't spoken a word since ?the
pass.? Finally, Walter looked at me and said, ?One hundred
fifty-six knots.
What did you see?? Trying to find my voice, I stammered, ?One
hundred
fifty-two.? We sat in silence for a moment. Then Walt said, ?Don?t
ever do that to me again!? And I never did.
A year later, Walter and I were having lunch in the Mildenhall
Officer?s club, and overheard an officer talking to some cadets about
an SR-71 fly-past that he had seen one day. Of course, by now the
story included kids falling off the tower and screaming as the heat
of the jet singed their eyebrows. Noticing our HABU patches, as we
stood there with lunch trays in our hands, he asked us to verify to
the cadets that such a thing had occurred. Walt just shook his
head and said, ?It was probably just a routine low approach;
they're pretty impressive in that plane.? Impressive indeed.
Little did I realize after relaying this experience to my
audience
that day that it would become one of the most popular and most
requested stories. It?s ironic that people are interested in how slow
the world?s fastest jet can fly. Regardless of your speed,
however, it?s always a good idea to keep that cross-check up?and
keep your Mach up, too.
do not archive
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