Habubrats SR-71
@Habubrats71
Air Force Brat. Writer. The only female aviationgeekclub contributor. My Father, Butch Sheffield, flew the SR 71. I am a Wife and Mother. 🇺🇸✝️
youtu.be/r61v4IUzF5M these videos are unrealistic, but fun. But I do appreciate that people are helping continue the legacy of the SR-71. The conning the white billowing smoke behind the FR 71. Usually you didn’t see that because you were up so high that that did not occur.…
The most astonishing part of the Blackbird program is the respect and camaraderie that the men who flew the SR 71 and all of the people who supported the SR 71 feel for each other. This respect remains and will never die. I could feel it at the SR 71 reunion, the final one last…
Maybe you need a cool outfit for Halloween? Looks like what my father would wear when he used to fly in the SR 71 Wow 😮
🚨 WATCH: Tulsi Gabbard MASTERFULLY laid out every step in Obama’s Russia Collussion Hoax Every minute of this is worth watching. Tulsi is exposing EVERYTHING. It’s the DOJ’s turn now.
I saw that it was just Oshkosh Air show time again in  Wisconsin this article is about the last time and SR 71 there at Oshkosh air show SR-71 B trainer performing a low level flyby at EAA Oshkosh 1997 with the KC-135 tanker. @Habubrats71 youtu.be/qDTECZShylA?si… Story by…
A-12 #06927, nicknamed "Titanium Goose," The only A-12 trainer ever built, one fact you probably don’t know this A-12 could not go Mach 3. It was limited to Mach 2 because of the J 75 engines.  Kelly Johnson could not wait for the J 58 engines to be done so he started testing…
Did you know that there was a BLACKBIRD with teeth? This is an illustration by Romain Hugault. The YF-12 was built with air to air missiles instead of cameras. The idea was to stop the Soviet unions bombers from ever reaching the airspace over the United States. My father knew…
A secret spy plane… we don’t like the word spy, it’s reconnaissance was disguised and flew to Europe, pretending to be another airplane, SR-71 #962, that SR-71 was hiding in a Hangar This is the start of a good story… So SR-71 #955 was a test bird destined to spend her…
Glamorous as a tugboat, the Sea Shadow😁 Viewed from head-on, the ship looked like Darth Vader’s helmet. Some Navy brass who saw her clenched their teeth in disgust at the sight of the most futuristic ship ever to fly the seas. A future commander resented having only a…
The SR 71 used cables to control flight surfaces AND it was a delta wing shape, and the elevator/ailerons were the same surface, they used a MECHANICAL mixer Literal cables and pulleys being used to control an aircraft going Mach 3.2 We can never doubt that it was the geniuses…
Why didn't the Soviets come up with an answer to the SR-71 Blackbird? A lot of people try to compare the MiG-25 to the SR-71. It’s not a valid comparison. I was present at a briefing given by an experienced MiG-25 pilot. I was surprised to learn that their technique to shot down…
The CIA will never admit it, but the SR-71 was a superior aircraft. The Air Force had SR-71s built and had looked at some problems in the A-12. The pilot had too much to do to safely fly and handle electronic defenses.  The SR-71  could fly further because it had an…
SR-71 Pilot Dave Peters tells why the only SAM that had a chance to hit the Blackbird was a Nuclear S-300 fired ahead of the Habu. High Altitude Air Burst: A nuclear SA-10 fired in front of the SR-71 could detonate with an air burst at the Blackbird's altitude, potentially…
Mach 3+ Cowboys The Blackbird’s survival kit included a very rare aluminum gun! Yes, you read it right! The gun was made of aluminum to keep it lightweight. My Father, Col Richard (Butch) Sheffield, former SR-71 Reconnaissance Systems Officer (RSO), told my husband, Rodney…
The 747 was the result of the work of some 50,000 Boeing people. Called “the Incredibles,” these were the construction workers, mechanics, engineers, secretaries and administrators who made aviation history by building the Boeing 747 — the largest civilian airplane in the world —…
Jealous generals at the Pentagon took away the orange flight suit from the SR-71 crews by saying “they are not that special”  The fighter pilots were saying, the SR-71 Pilot’s and RSO’s were not that special But we all know that they were.SPECIAL as  the acceptance rate was…
In 1977 my father Butch Sheffield was Chief of Space at the Pentagon he was in charge of where the SR-71 flew. He approved the airshow at Toronto, Canada.  He went up to Toronto to watch the show and he took my mother and I with him. I still remember how suspicious I was of…
