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Re:What Made the SR-71 Blackbird Such a Badass Plane (2015) by mixmastamyk on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @03:43PM (#15751346)
How does a middle finger get transmitted? Had ascii art handy?
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Re:What Made the SR-71 Blackbird Such a Badass Plane (2015) by eesmith on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @04:25PM (#15751717)
That story is from Ben Rich's book "Skunk Works". https://hipandthigh.wordpress.com/2013/03/18/blackbird/ describes it as "Lt. Colonel William Burk Jr., who shares about a particular mission he flew over Lebanon back in 82." That link also has the full account, ending "What he had given him was “the bird” with his middle finger" - that is, it was not sent by radio signals but by visual light to the Mark I eyeball of the Mirage pilot.
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Re:What Made the SR-71 Blackbird Such a Badass Plane (2015) by aladoc99 on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @12:34AM (#15754509)
digital signalling
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Re:What Made the SR-71 Blackbird Such a Badass Plane (2015) by jacobush on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @03:28AM (#15755233)
Ahem - digit signalling.
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Re:What Made the SR-71 Blackbird Such a Badass Plane (2015) by strictnein on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @03:55PM (#15751447)
They were within visible distance, so he just used his hand up against the window. The plane really was right off the wing. Think Top Gun, with less inversion.
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Re:What Made the SR-71 Blackbird Such a Badass Plane (2015) by jonah on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @03:56PM (#15751450)
If they were that close, out the window.
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Re:What Made the SR-71 Blackbird Such a Badass Plane (2015) by mikeokner on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @03:54PM (#15751439)
Morse code of ASCII art I think
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