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For a quarter-century， Lockheed’s Mach 3 SR-71A Blackbird reconnaissance aircraft dominated the skies as no other. The men that flew the 55-ton ’Habu’ (so dubbed by Okinawans near one of its bases because of its resemblance to a local deadly black snake) at 80，000 feet and 33 miles per minute were the rarest of fraternities， and author and former 9th Recon Wing commander Richard Graham provides a score of them--as well as key ground personnel--a generous forum for their self-penned recollections here. Where Graham’s first book， SR-71 Revealed: The Inside Story， dealt more with the Blackbird’s remarkable hardware and history， this volume details the human dimensions of the SR-71 program， from its dangerous days of development and testing through decades of intelligence-gathering operations in the world’s hot spots， to its final， bittersweet confrontation with the one foe it couldn’t elude: self-serving Pentagon politics. Inspired by flying a plane that often seemed to have a mind of its own--and a sometimes malicious one at that--the anecdotes here are seasoned with a compelling mix of boyish humor， sheer terror， and enviable camaraderie. As Graham’s fellow SR-71 pilot and author Brian Shul once noted， more people have stood atop Mt. Everest than have flown what remains the world’s fastest， highest-flying jet. (The author is donating all royalties to the J.T. Vida Memorial Fund， set up to preserve Blackbird 972， whose 1990 transcontinental， record-setting retirement flight is recounted herein， currently housed at the Smithsonian Museum) --Jerry McCulley
Book Description
Feel the Mach 3 power generated by Lockheed’s incredibly fast SR-71 Blackbird! Former SR-71 pilot， instructor and wing commander， Richard Graham， presents the most intriguing SR-71 stories ever told. This once highly classified program is fully revealed through the words of pilots， commanders， mechanics， and instructors involved in the Blackbird’s creation and flight-testing. From grueling reconnaissance missions to the Persian Gulf conflict， this insightful book tells stories of bravery and daring determination. Graham also wrote SR-71 Revealed: The Untold Story 0-7603-0122-0.