Avalon air show

[Mutha]

:rolleyes: Anybody go to the Air show today ?
First time I have ever been to see it and I thought it was just feckin Awesome.
That freaking F1.11 gets from Melbourne to Sydney in 15 Freaking minutes, unbelievable

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[Sumkhun]

Yes Mum,

Butt can it get parking in double that time ?

[Sumkhun]

Especailly at Mardi-Gras

[Mutha]

Especailly at Mardi-Gras

:rolleyes:  what you done talkin about willis...

[Busabug]

That freaking F1.11 gets from Melbourne to Sydney in 15 Freaking minutes, unbelievable

That is awsome, but the most awsome of all was the SR-71 Speed Run from New York to London, at 80,000 feet speed excess of 2,000 miles an hour they did the route in 1 hour 54 minutes, overshot London and had to turn around over France.

SR-71 Fast Stuff...

"I'll always remember a certain radio exchange that occurred one day as Walt (his backseater) and I were screaming across Southern California 13 miles high. We were monitoring various radio transmissions from other aircraft as we entered Los Angeles airspace. "Though they didn't really control us, they did monitor our movement across their scope. I heard a Cessna ask for a readout of its groundspeed. "90 knots" Center replied. Moments later, a Twin Beech required the same. "120 knots," Center answered...

"We weren't the only ones proud of our groundspeed that day as almost instantly an F-18 smugly transmitted, "Ah, Center, Dusty 52 requests groundspeed readout." "There was a slight pause, then the response, "525 knots on the ground Dusty". "Another silent pause.
As I was thinking to myself how ripe a situation this was, I heard a familiar click of a radio transmission coming from my backseater. It was at that precise moment I realized Walt and I had become a real crew, for we were both thinking in unison. "Center, Aspen 20, you got a groundspeed readout for us?" There was a longer that normal pause."Aspen, I show 1,742 knots"

"No further inquiries were heard on that frequency"

In another famous SR-71 story, Los Angeles Center reported receiving a request for clearance to FL 60 (60,000 ft). The incredulous controller, with some disdain in his voice, asked, "How do you plan to get up to 60,000 feet?

The pilot (obviously a sled driver), responded, " We don't plan to go up to it, we plan to go down to it." He was cleared.

I head a similar story where a SR-71 with a call sign of "Hubu" asked a German controller for flight level 120.. The controller replied "Sure, if you can do it, go ahead." The pilot then said "Thanks, Hubu flight xx descending to FL120.


Cheers,
Dave