Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird 61-7976 At EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 7/31/89
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- Опубликовано: 23 дек 2011
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Finally got around to uploading video of SR-71A (61-7976) at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh on July 31, 1989. The Blackbird flew in on 7/28/89, and departed on 7/31. I was 10 at the time and my father was able to record the rare visit on his then new VHS camcorder (Panasonic OmniMovie AFx8 PV-400). Apologies for the vehicles/people getting in the way, but we were not allowed to get any closer to the runway for an unobstructed view. It was incredible to witness the Blackbird and the engine run-ups prior to takeoff. On the final pass, the SR was in full afterburner on her climb out, and the noise was so great from those fantastic J-58's that the microphone on the camera nearly blew out and the footage became choppy during that moment. I will never forget that show, and it is wonderful knowing 17976 lives on at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Museum. She was retired shortly after this footage was taken in the Spring of 1990. 61-7976 flew the first operational USAF Blackbird sortie, and went on to fly more combat sorties than any other SR-71.
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Plane is over 50 year old now and it still looks like it's from the future. Just beautiful!
Let alone it's capabilities.... the only other aircraft mentionable is .......E.E LIGHTING....... never before had this kind of performance been seen ...1950 what was it ......
Thinking the same thing. Watching that plane fly never gets old. Too bad it does not fly any more.
It was designed to be more futuristic than people could take !!
True
I'd say, menacing, rather than beautiful, which is intended I guess.
I was at Wright-Patterson in February of 1990, the day their blackbird came to the museum. A few photo passes and a couple practice approaches to their short runway and then it came in for a full stop and popped the orange parachutes. A memory I will always cherish. As a 22 year old, I didn't yet know how rare and permanent many moments in aviation are.
I built a model of the SR 71 while healing from surgery about 6 months ago. I have become obsessed with the majic of this plane. So anxious to got the museum in Dayton to see one. I hope they are open soon. (Pandemic)
And then you went blind
Wow! I saw the plane on the runway at Wright Patterson too but it was in 88-89
I had the pleasure of seeing an SR-71 take off when I was stationed in Okinawa, Japan. Beautiful aircraft!
Such an amazing plane. It looks like it just rolled off the line yesterday. Then you see the old school cars that let you know what year it really was. 100 years from now it’ll still look brand new. One of the most amazing planes. Kelly Johnson was an absolute genius
I don't know if this is true, but I read that , a Concorde was crossing the Atlantic, and they detected another plane in it's route, at 60,00 ft. North American Air Control asked the mystery plane a ( SR-71) to change their route, as Concorde was coming up fast and getting close to them., they obliged.
The SR-71 is a fucking work of art.
And a work of Genius
Outstanding piece of art
Fucking is also an art
Yeah it is. It’s 100 years ahead of its time. That and Kelly Johnson
Engineering?
Thank you for the video, I was a little kid there that day, it gives me goosebumps!! I was lucky to see/hear the SR-71!
Me too. I was 9 years old and fell in love for the first time that day.
I was there. It was an awesome display. Thanks for the memories.
The SR-71 Blackbird was the one plane flying at UK airshows during the 80's, that always made a huge impression on you every time you saw it flying. Who can remember being close to the front of the crowd line, where you could physically feel the immense power of those J-58 engines during take off, as I certainly can and did.
The most beautiful machine ever built.🛫✈️🛬
That's the coolest thing you could see in 1989. Also, that's the coolest thing you could see today.
What a remarkably beautiful aircraft that Blackbird is! You can see from her paint-71 she is stealth, like an arrow, meant to pierce the wild blue yonder and do her job! Her top speed is STILL classified, but it is widely rumored to have been able to travel at well over MACH 3.2-5 (over 2,000 mph on a straight course!) and she can shoot right up to 85,000 feet! That means she could fly from New York to London in just under 2 hours! Progress and advanced scientific technology is already making her obsolete, but she's still a beautiful bird! The same progress that took away the gorgeous B-747 and gave us the Airbus instead, somehow, some beauty was lost.
Grew up on Beale AFB and then Lakenheath AFB near RAF Mildenhall. Got to see the mighty Blackbird many times and I’m so happy I did. What a plane!
OMG! Over half a century old and it's still the sexiest aircraft ever made! It's too bad we don't have any HD video/audio of this beast.
Well said.
I think its safe to say a majority of military aviation enthusiasts would donate a kidney to see this thing fly again.
Now this might be too far but I would also consider adding in my left nutsack. I'd consider it......
holy shit, you have four nuts?
I'm in
I got to see the last flight in 1999 at Edwards AFB airshow. It was cool, she did a mach 3 flyover at 80k also.
Hell they can take my man hood my lungs and my kidneys to see both the f-14 tomcat and the sr-71 in service again
Kelly Johnson’s masterpiece in all its titanium glory. I wish I could’ve seen it fly before it was retired.
Kelly Johnson? Who is that? And what's with the titanium? Is isn't painted white so where's the titanium?
I couldn’t believe when I saw one flying here at Lackland AFB last month. We almost crashed into a pole. It was a beautiful sight. Truly breathtaking.
what
Yeah you're lying. All SR-71s had their Spars broken and if USAF had any operational ones left, they sure as fuck would not be flying them in the open for Civilians to see. In short, you're full of it.
A salute to the Lockheed skunk works and Kelly Johnson, one hell of a job!
A salute to the crew building them in Burbank, right under Hollywood's noses, and trucking them to the desert at night in wooden crates.
At 4:30 fuel leaking aft. The planes joints and fuel tanks would seal during supersonic flight due to the heat, but would leak like a sieve on the ground.
Saw a few flights while living out in Palmdale in the early 90s. My mom and dad had the fortunate experience of talking to one of the pilots. (His son was in the boy scouts) Amazing plane!
Sounds like somebody watches discovery channel.
How does heat seal the tanks without setting fire to such volutile fuel ?
@@MrDaiseymay @MrDaiseymay Not sure... I'm guessing that's what Kelly Johnson and the "Skunk Works" team had to figure out.
My Mom worked at Arrowhead Conveyor and we would often watch the show from the parking lot. Some years we would get tickets and some years not. I remember seeing the SR-71 this year and my Dad telling me how rare it was to witness this plane. I absolutely love aviation but deep down inside I'm terrified of flying. It's truly a love/hate relationship with me. On one hand I absolutely love it and think it's the greatest thing ever and on the other hand I'm scared 💩less.
Thanks for uploading that-- may have been done in 1989, but the quality is still very good. We can see what power the 71 had to fly LA to DC in 64 minutes. Of course, the real power display comes when the 71 opens up past Mach 2 at 80,000 feet (plus).
Thank YOU for watching Bob! The quality was about as good as possible back then, the only downfall was that Dad and I would watch the tape over and over again... Hopefully we didn't wear it out too much!
Thanks for posting. I was 14 and '89 was my first EAA visit; Oshkosh is my Mom's hometown and my cousins literally live right behind Pioneer Airport so I've been to many, many Oshkosh shows but '89 was the best. Not only the Blackbird, but the QANTAS742 charter that blew up part of the runway when it departed to LAX (and being able to track it live in the FAA exhibit in an early "version" of live flight tracking), the Antonov 124 was there right next to the 747; the F-117 came in on a cloudy day, and many others. Oshkosh is beyond words and no matter if you like commercial, military, classics, or xperimental-a visit to this simple but magical place is a must. Cheers from WI!!! :)
they literally live there?
It makes me want to cry looking at it. America held this jewel from the world for years. I wonder what else area 51 is hiding. When I see it I will probably cry again admiring it.
Lockheed U-2, F117 Nighthawk and many aircraft stolen from rival powers.
I went to an Air Show here at Dallas Love Field back in the 80's and on a static display they had the SR-71 Blackbird sitting right next to the U-2R Dragon Lady. My Best Friend and I got to watch both take off and leave for where ever they were going to. Seeing that was really impressive to watch. Plus they had the Blue Angels there and a B-1A and B-2 fly over with the Leap Frogs Parachute team from the Navy SEALS. talk about impressed. Got to talk with one of my old Lt's who was now a Marine Capt. from VMFA-112 the Cowboy Squadron there in his F/A-18A Hornet.
To see that Jeep Wagoneer go by and all those other old vehicles. You realize just how old this plane is too. This plane was so far ahead of it's time. Even today, it is just so cool.
Ironically I was there, I was 7 at the time and I couldn't have been more than 100 yards from you, I clearly remember the same vantage point in the warbird north section watching it take off. One of my favorite memories along with watching the Concorde take off for night flights with full burners as well as the F-117 among others.
I was too. About the same age. Do you remember the p51 named Crazy Horse there giving rides. I remember the Concord as well giving rides. 700 or 1100 a ride.
How... ironic?
This is the most beautiful aircraft ever built.. I would love to see one come out of mothballs and fly again..
Was there that day. Great departure. Been EAA member since 1973. This SR 71 came out of Beale AFB Sacramento CA. Annoucer said by the time you get to parking and on your way home. The SR 71 will be home on the ground in 55 minutes....2000 miles. Pretty cool.
Excellent! My wife and i saw one do a flyby at Burke Lakefront in the late 70s. If i remember correctly, it was on its way home, and just flew by at about 400 kts and was gone.
Being from Aurora, Im so jealous that you got to see one fly!
I was 15 when I was there that year. And to this day, I’ve been to Oshkosh 37 times out of a possible 45. My dad and I flew in that year. But I’ve got to say that that is some of the highest quality video I’ve ever seen for 1989! Very impressive!
Thank you darkjedi74! Dad prided himself on balancing that heavy camera on his shoulder, and is happy to share the results with all who love this plane!
Kelly Johnson was a genius. This was his masterpiece.
I never get tired of seeing this beauty!!! Such a miraculous machine!!😍😍
First time I saw the SR-71 BLACKBIRD in 1976 at Norton AFB Air Show. Futuristic design aircraft that was ahead of its time. Seeing them in a museum is like going to a cemetery and dropping off flowers at an old friend grave. Awesome aircraft and great memories. Habu
Kelly Johnson - a great American
There is a SR-71 at Duxford Imperial War Museum - seeing it up close is a privilege.
I didn't know that I would love to see it in person, such a Beautiful Aircraft. Thank you.
Thanks for posting. That was probably one of the most significant visiting aircraft of all time to Oshkosh. Definitely one of those memorable moments that cannot be duplicated, or forgotten. I was 13.
This Old lady still the Queen of beauty!!! This Bird in one word is just PERFECT!.
What a beautiful piece of machinery!
Designed over 60 years ago, closer to the Wright Brother's first flight than to today. Amazing.
32 aircraft built as SR 71. Lost 6 of them by accidents. Air Show appearances were common at the end of the aircrafts use. Most are in museums. They were around from 1965 - 1995 for active duty use. Nothing like it ! Still amazing !
No two ways about it, this puppy is truly a engineering marvel!FAST
Great video of the SR -71 thank you for posting 🇺🇸
Wow! Just AMAZING!!! Beautiful jet, the SR-71! Thanks for uploading your father's footage! Liked! Greetz
Thank you for checking it out! Cheers!
My great uncle Gary was CHIEF line mechanic on the sr71 at Beal afb back in the day. He has since passed away but its nice to say our family has long deep roots serving in America's Armed Force's. My kids are serving now son is a Marine and my daughter is Navy intelligence.
So I was inbound (Hiperbipe) to OSH the day this was arriving. My dad and I had to do the hold after Fisk (circling a lake counter-clockwise) for almost an hour. It was really hot that day. We didn't stay over but got to see it on the ground. Awesome bird!
Thanks for going, shooting, storing, editing and uploading!
Thank you for checking it out!
Absolutely wonderful footage of this mighty aircraft. My compliments to you for uploading it. Thank you. I thoroughly enjoyed watching it :-)
+JRalloveragain Thank you for watching!
Wow. What a GREAT video! THANK YOU for taking the time and effort in sharing.
If this aircraft hadn't been designed until today and we saw this thing roll out an aircraft hangar in 2020 we would STILL think it was a future looking design. It's just perfect
Good camera work by your dad. I'm always amazed at how hard it is for some people to keep things in frame, your dad looks like a pro.
Literally just thinking the same thing.
thank you rich folk for having video cameras during this time to document this stuff.
Great video !!
I was there that day with my buddy from the Marines and Viet-Nam. He got us on the flight line and all I wanted to see was the blackbird. When it took off it pounded my chest very hard !! Never forget it.
I was in the USAF in the 1970s and saw a Blackbird pull in at dawn to a hanger at Kadena AB Japan. There is a Blackbird at the Hill AFB Air Museum in Ogden, UT (just north of Salt Lake City). It is even more impressive when you right next to one.
This is an old video I was watching and saw your comment and I joined the AF in 1970 and was stationed at Kadena from 1978 to 1982 assigned to the SR-71 squadron.....we had 3 aircraft and each rotated out every 90 days back to Beale AFB, CA. Good times there but damn loud in the hangar......cheers....Retired :)
Awesome video...The SR-71 had such raw power. A fantastic video!
Man, no apologies needed! The fact that you were even able to get rare footage and experience the baddest aircraft ever built makes me envious! LoL. And especially that their all pretty much out of service makes this video very valuable. Thanks for uploading this.........very very good!
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My dad brought the whole family up to Oshkosh in the station wagon that day, and I got to see the fly-by! Boy howdy was it loud, even though we were watching from quite a good ways back. Surprised the mic held together as well as it did! It looks just as futuristically sci-fi now as it did back then. Super cool 😎
Amazing aircraft! My husband worked at Beale AFB on this bird!
yea nice you obviously loved it at the time I love the comment "Now that's what I call power" realy made me smile that!
Thank you Kelly Johnson. The Greatest of All Time (GOAT). I love this plane. Consider the design started in the 1950’s. Fastest plane ever for decades. Badass looks too.
Most beautiful plane ever built.
The most beautiful airplane ever built! A glorious work of art! I could look at her forever! Kelly Johnson, Lockheed, Skunk Works, am forever in your debt!!!
Thanks for the upload! I too was 10 when my dad took me to Oshkosh that year for the fly in. I remember a lot of cool things from being there but the arrival and departure of the SR-71 was the top of the list for me. Watching the giant Russian cargo plane circle the field was surreal. That was the only time we went to that airshow and it is one of my top memories from childhood.
TrailRunner-Overland I got to see one depart Beale AFB on an SR-71 tour when I was eight.
Same for me: One of my top childhood memories.
Unique perspective, great camera work, superb feeling of "being there".
Thanks,
I saw the SR71 several times at Mildenhall in the eighties. Have walk around slides, up close, must post.
Have you posted them anywhere? Please provide link if you have. Thank you!
@@bonnieplasha4684 Sorry no, as I not have the means to copy them in quality.
@@TR6Telos Thank you for answering my query? God bless and take care.
They have an SR-71 on display at the Aeronautical Museum in Balboa Park, San Diego, Ca. You can walk right underneath it. So magnificent, this beast of an aircraft. Touching it gives you chills. Amazing piece of engineering.
Thank you so much for posting this. I have the still shots from that day, my first AirVenture. I was 22 at the time.
The most beautiful plane ever.
So THIS is the one at WPAFBM! So cool I seen this plane 30 times then. Beauty!!
No doubt! My wife took us to Ohio one summer to visit family and we went to the Wright-Pat AFB Air Museum. I will never forget standing on the balcony near the space section admiring the rockets I use to see launched in Orlando from my front yard, then turning around and seeing this thing sitting there next to a stealth fighter. Amazing looking plane in pictures, but extremely impressive in person. You just can’t get a feel fit the size until you are standing there looking down it’s length from the nose back. Unforgettable moment.
Was 16 at this airshow. Watched her come in. Was a speck of pepper in the sky. Then she came down. Was the first year a Soviet AN-124 was @ a western airshow. I remember looking at the Russians on top of their airplane taking pictures, video and pointing with binoculars in hand.
When they parked the SR nose to nose w/ the 124, THAT was a sight!
Thanks for uploading this video. I've seen her quite a few times as I live about 40 miles away from Wright-Patterson.
Thank you for watching it!
Kelly Johnson's team made it work. With out EVMS, without CAD, without CMMI, without ISO.
Pay Way SLIDE RULES, were the thing of the day, hell, you stiLl interloper 5 digits after the . i.e.: 15.56789. I still have 2 cheap sloppy slide rules.
Can't give enough credit to Kelly Johnson. Fucking aeronautical GENIUS.
Could you explain what those acronyms stand for? For the non engineers among us
EVMS: Earned Value Managment System (project management and schedule statusing system)
CAD: Computer Aided Design:: this airplane was designed on drafting boards, not in a $25K/Year/Seat mechanical/aeronautical design program
CMMI: Capability Maturity Model Index, a means of assessing and identifying the organization maturity of chiefly aerospace organizations based on their competence in a variety of organization areas ranging from project management and planning, requirements management, metrics keeping, etc.
ISO: ISO is I.S.O. It's an acronym that used to mean "international standards organization", but now doesn't mean anything at all. This is the organizing entity for the "ISO 9001", International standard for quality management systems, and the AS9100, which elaborates on the ISO in the control of counterfeit material, foreign object control (FOD) and a few other swimlanes.
The original comment is an indictment against so many of the organizational concepts that have both enhanced organizational rigor, while also making the field very difficult to work in.
I was reading an article talking about this aircrafts design and how efficient it was for being designed when it was. Safe to say using modern 2010+ computer design test software they determined it to be perfect.
That was cool. Thanks for posting this.
Thanks for sharing this rare moment in time
Poetry in motion! Thanks so much for sharing with us.
Thanks so much for watching Brian! Glad you enjoyed it!
I was there too. No video, though only 35mm. I was so proud to hang those photos on my college dorm room walls!
Thanks for sharing.
What a fucking machine
+mike104740 Sadly they will not be reproducing these planes any time soon (and there will not be enough rubber for the condoms).
In 1988 I was in sacramento ca I was installing carpet when I heard a sudden rumbling I ran outside just in time to see a sr 71 take off and went straight up and out of sight the coolest thing to see
I was stationed on Okinawa Aug 74-Sep 75, with the United States Marine Corps, at Camp Foster; was close to Kadena AFB. There was a SR-71 stationed there. We would see it taking off and landing several times a week. Loud & Fast.
Great video!!! I was here too at the ripe old age of 13! Thanks for sharing this memory!
Awesome footage! Your dad is a very good camera man. Thank you for sharing. The greatest plane ever built and made in the USA!!!
Beautiful aircraft...out of the early 60' late 50's
My absolute favorite aircraft... Awesome power. As far as we know, still the fastest aircraft in the world.
Mark Kudra Yes, it's still the fastest, manned, air-breathing, aircraft ever built.
I saw this Amazing Missile of a Jet in Palmdale California, I was only 25 Feet away. I'm a Gal and I love Jets. ✈
..hullo , ..well , i read somewhere that ..very few people sow this plane on flight ! ..YES.,like you do ..so and i ..D'r !.. One afternoon , .on a low flight almost above my village ...in CYPRUS !
Those Pratt J58s are an absolute design marvel.
This Amazing! Thanks for upload!
Amazing! Designed with drawing board, Tset, eraser and pencil. No autocad back then.
This is amazingly good quality for 1989. If the date wasn’t written, I would have guessed mid-90s.
Thank you!
Thank you for sharing, this was great footage, i use to watch them fly in kedena ab in okinawa back in 87-88
Thank you for this rare footage!!!! Amazing!
Thank you for checking the video out!
Great video. Thanks.
Thanks to Kelly Johnson, and his skunk works team, that produced the most magnificent aircraft known to man.
and woman too!
Well said.
Still the greatest bird to ever fly. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for watching!
From 1987 to 1989 I served in the Soviet army in the air defence. And my task was just the US strategic air command. We tracked the US strategic reconnaissance aircraft RC-135, U-2, TR-1, SR-71. We caught the sound of the microphone even when the plane was at the base and determined the type of aircraft from the sound, and then transmitted information about the departure to the air defence command. As a rule, there was no radio check, only the inclusion of a microphone (there were lingophones on the SR-71). Thus, the Soviet air defence was ready for the meeting. SR-71 took off from Mildenhall base, immediately refuelled over the North Sea, then headed to the Barents Sea, made one or two circles there, and returned back, refuelling in the Norwegian Sea. It was especially honourable not to miss this plane.
Fascinating to read Oleg!
Blackbird is one of my favourite USA aircraft! Amazing how many decades ago already been stels- technologies!
I was there too. I was able to get close to the plane and talk to one of the pilots I was 17 at the time and getting my privates license.
I was there. I was 9 at that time and was my 3rd airventure. Back then it was eaa convention. The sound was amazing from the SR-71. I was lucky to see 2 different blackbirds over oshkosh. Both 89 and 97. I miss those conventions. Back when eaa was fun.
Must have been truly awesome in person! Thanks for posting
It was! Thank you for watching!
I worked with someone who was up there that day and saw her takeoff. He said there were a bunch of photographers directly behind her back about 200 feet that were knocked down when the afterburners kicked in. I wish I could have seen one of these in flight,never got the chance.
5.37 Jesus christ,Did you hear that thing !That's what I call power!
+paul sha
It is an awesome bird.
Built way before Apple.
+paul sha Better at 6.00
paul sha i
broomsterm Its engines also don’t turn into ramjets either.
paul ....that's I call pure thrust!
Should never of retired absolute masterpiece of Aviation, such a beautiful badass aircraft, gone but never forgotten 🇺🇸🔥🔥
I enjoyed watching Habu take off during my days on Okinawa... Beautiful bird....thanks Kelly!
I was on Okinawa with the Marine Corps Aug 74 to Sep 75, "The Habu" only those who served on the island knew it by the name Habu. I remember everyone talking about the real Golden Habu snake on the island.
Thanks for the upload. I use to watch her fly in okinawa back in 87-88 Semper fi
Thank you for watching it! Cheers!
Semper fi stationed Okinawa myself refueler with the wing saw all type aircraft unfortunately this was gone when I arrived at kadena
That's a long ass plane. Seriously, that thing's friggen huge.
People think the Blackbird is small, like an f-16.
U-UH!!
The thing is 7x that big!
It's closer to a B-1 in length!
Thank you so much for sharing this.
It means a lot to me.
+SR71GBOAC27 Thank you for checking it out!
Great footage of this grand old bird . If I'm right it still holds the fastest flight from an air force base somewhere in Florida to Farnborough England in less than 2hrs. That's impressive . Great footage
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