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Re:SR-71 Blackbird's ground speed check story by schmookeeg on Monday January 11, 2021 @02:42PM (#25735154)
My favorite "snarky summary" of this every time it gets posted to reddit aviation is:

Cessna: How fast

Tower: 6

Beechcraft: How fast

Tower: 8

Hornet: Yo how fast bro

Tower: Eh, 30

Sled: >mfw

Sled: How fast sir

Tower: Like 9000

Sled: More like 9001 amirite

Tower: ayyyyy

Sled: ayyyyy

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Re:SR-71 Blackbird's ground speed check story by elliottlan on Monday January 11, 2021 @02:44PM (#25735207)
Is it just me or is this version heavily redacted while destroying the punchline by pasting it in bold at the top?

Or is this version heavily embellished: https://www.reddit.com/r/SR71/comments/2dpmw7/the_sr71_speed...

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Re:SR-71 Blackbird's ground speed check story by schmookeeg on Monday January 11, 2021 @03:21PM (#25735983)
Not just you. No idea why Dario needed to edit the original down.

Your reddit link is the one I think of as the canonical, but I've never bought Shul's book, so couldn't say with certainty. :)

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Re:SR-71 Blackbird's ground speed check story by sampo on Monday January 11, 2021 @02:01PM (#25734311)
This and other stories are in a book Sled Driver by Brian Shul. You can easily find copies around in the web.
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Re:SR-71 Blackbird's ground speed check story by toomuchtodo on Monday January 11, 2021 @02:39PM (#25735104)
Shul telling the story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AyHH9G9et0 ("Major Brian Shul relays the true story of a ground speed check with Los Angeles Center, while piloting the SR-71 Blackbird over Southern California.")
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Re:SR-71 Blackbird's ground speed check story by ThisIsTheWay on Monday January 11, 2021 @02:34PM (#25735012)
+1, all of the stories are amazing. Here is a link to another story, which talks about the slowest Shul ever flew the SR-71.

https://www.planeandpilotmag.com/article/speed-is-life/

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Re:SR-71 Blackbird's ground speed check story by throwaway0a5e on Monday January 11, 2021 @02:57PM (#25735496)
In case anyone is wondering, an SR-71 makes slightly less thrust than two F15s (i.e. one B1) so that should help you imagine how loud an SR-71 with the throttle pinned is.
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Re:SR-71 Blackbird's ground speed check story by mech422 on Monday January 11, 2021 @01:51PM (#25734078)
This story is older then I am, but I upvote it every time cuz I think its just hilarious :-)
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Re:SR-71 Blackbird's ground speed check story by blakesterz on Monday January 11, 2021 @02:30PM (#25734923)
Right, me too. It's like The case of the 500-mile email, it just never gets old.

https://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html

"We can't send mail more than 500 miles," the chairman explained...

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Re:SR-71 Blackbird's ground speed check story by mech422 on Monday January 11, 2021 @02:38PM (#25735090)
oh yeah...

Maybe we should bring out the BOFH files too...

The world could probably use a good chuckle right now :-D

edit: submitted the BOFH archives:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25735221

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Re:SR-71 Blackbird's ground speed check story by m463 on Monday January 11, 2021 @03:54PM (#25736706)
- the story of mel

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/story-of-mel.html

- "Not just any wire but a 230 KV, many-hundred-amp, 10 mile long coax cable"

https://archive.org/stream/engineering-pornography-this-is-o...

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Re:SR-71 Blackbird's ground speed check story by b06tmm on Monday January 11, 2021 @05:35PM (#25738563)
I loved, loved, loved the BOFH! At some point The Register changed the format of the site and I haven't browsed it since then.

Thank you!

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