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Re:How SR-71 Blackbird Designers Overcame Canonical Jet Engi... by tjoff on Friday June 29, 2012 @08:45AM (#4176325)
Two other stories mentioned among the comments on reddit:

http://www.barthworks.com/aviation/sr71breakup.htm

http://tailspinstales.blogspot.se/2010/01/slowest-blackbird....

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Re:How SR-71 Blackbird Designers Overcame Canonical Jet Engi... by grecy on Friday June 29, 2012 @12:27PM (#4177464)
I've read a lot of the Blackbird stories, and that first one might be the best yet.

Thanks!

Damn, that's an expensive test flight.

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Re:How SR-71 Blackbird Designers Overcame Canonical Jet Engi... by excuse-me on Friday June 29, 2012 @09:27AM (#4176483)
There is a great podcast featuring an hour long interview with an SR71 pilot and author

http://omegataupodcast.net/2012/03/91-flying-the-sr-71/

And take a look at the other omegatau podcasts if you like geeky, if you speak German there are even more

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