Blackbird SR-71 Flight Manual (2010)

Re:Blackbird SR-71 Flight Manual (2010) by toomuchtodo on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @01:42PM (#20032447)

If you enjoy such gems, check out the procedures for C130 transport aircraft. An old colleague used to be a load master on them (before going into tech), and said the action required for a situation where your load is jammed on exit and you can’t cut the chutes deployed to extract the load from the cargo hold is “prepare for crash landing”.

I do enjoy the bluntness of military checklists.

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Re:Blackbird SR-71 Flight Manual (2010) by na85 on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @02:38PM (#20033003)

I just checked a modern copy I have lying around and couldn't find that particular phrasing. However there are lots of other gems such as "a malfunction of the extraction system that causes cargo to move can be extremely hazardous."

Oh really. You don't say.

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Re:Blackbird SR-71 Flight Manual (2010) by yutyut on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @05:23PM (#20034564)

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Re:Blackbird SR-71 Flight Manual (2010) by java-man on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @11:02PM (#20036523)

the video of that crash is just hear breaking. you see how the pilots try to recover, did everything right, but it was an impossible task.

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Re:Blackbird SR-71 Flight Manual (2010) by dotancohen on Wednesday May 29, 2019 @02:19AM (#20037283)

Here is a video of the crash from a dashcam. This is probably the most detailed view of the stages of a plane crash I've ever seen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLAvN4IUzoI

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Re:Blackbird SR-71 Flight Manual (2010) by toomuchtodo on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @02:49PM (#20033113)

Might have been a C17A/21/26 instead of a C130. I’ll dig tonight to find it.

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