That was great, you can tell he really loves telling that story. Here's an excerpt from an interview with him [1] where he discusses telling it:

> When I'm doing a talk, if I don't tell that speed check story, they run me out of town. I tried that one year, I thought, I've been speaking at this air museum for 10 years now, I'm gonna change it up this year. People lost their minds. I realized hey, Elvis has to sing Love Me Tender at the end of every show, I gotta tell that story no matter how many times I tell it.

> And there's always people who've never heard it. I told it at an FBI conference the other day, out of 800 people I swear 700 had never heard it, and they were falling out of their chairs.

[1]: https://newatlas.com/brian-shul-interview-sr-71-blackbird-pi...

It's a running gag on some websites now (apparently including hacker news) that whenever there's a mention of the sr71, that story gets posted.

I still read it every time too.

I'm almost certain someone created a bot on Reddit that automatically posts the story when anyone, anywhere on the site mentions the SR-71.

I like to think I’m part of next best part - posting the ‘low and slow’ story that has to come second.

Might as well link to the full talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wigZsFypdyI

It's a great speech about overcoming his war injuries and getting to fly on of the most special planes in history, along with actually documenting most of it himself.

Lots of great photos in his slides.