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<DIV><FONT face=Candara color=#000080 size=4>Oh my word! </FONT><FONT
face=Candara color=#000080 size=4>There is one SR-71 less than 20 minutes
away from me! </FONT><FONT face=Candara color=#000080 size=4>I am going as
soon as I can.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Candara color=#000080 size=4>Jeanene</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Candara color=#000080 size=4><A
href="http://www.pimaair.org/view.php?pg=21">http://www.pimaair.org/view.php?pg=21</A></FONT></DIV>
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<TD vAlign=top align=left width=125><A
href="http://www.pimaair.org/view.php?pg=26"><IMG
title=btn_lg_hangar_1s.jpg height=118 alt="hangar 1 south"
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<H2>Hangar 1 South<BR>Spirit of Freedom Hangar </H2>
<P>Hangar 1 South, the <U><A
href="http://www.pimaair.org/images/hires/IMG_8373.JPG">Spirit of Freedom
Hangar</A></U>, houses the more rare and important aircraft in the
Museum’s collection, including the Lockheed SR-71 “Blackbird”, the only
remaining Martin PBM-5A “Mariner”, and the very rare North American
F-107.</P></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=gcfl-discuss@gcfl.net href="mailto:gcfl-discuss@gcfl.net">Discussion
of the Good, Clean Funnies List</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=jeanenehea@comcast.net
href="mailto:jeanenehea@comcast.net">Red</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, August 25, 2008 6:14
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [GCFL-discuss] today's SR-71
funny</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Candara color=#000080 size=4>I love it, too and I only met it
today! It was a SUPER FAST spy plane that took LOTS of high
resolution pictures and was decommissioned in 1989. I wonder if
there are some at the Davis Monthan Air Force base or the Pima Air and
Space Museum boneyards near us. Hmmm. I would really like to see
one up close. Too bad I never got to see one fly. The most
exciting thing I have ever seen in the air (with my naked eyes) was the space
shuttle being carried on the back of a GIGANTIC airplane. It
flew low over the I-10 freeway here in Tucson while I was driving (I
pulled over and STARED) and landed out at the Air Force Base for some
reason. I never knew they were transported...</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Candara color=#000080 size=4>Thanks for the info about the
fuel tanks. WOW.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Candara color=#000080 size=4>My son (PFC Joseph Headlee,
USArmy) is an operator of a couple of the military's unmanned aerial vehicles
(spy planes). Their resolution is amazing as well, but
they fly fairly low. I think they are cool. I have seen
several of them and they are quite small. They have a payload in
addition to the camera. </FONT><FONT face=Candara color=#000080
size=4>He will be deployed in February to Iraq.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Candara color=#000080 size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Candara color=#000080 size=4>Jeanene</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>I love this plane. Jeanene, their fule tank is a rubber type substance.
They only put enough fuel into it to get it into the air, as it leaks like
no tomorrow till it gets in the air and the tank stretches out and seals
perfectly. The plane is actually quite old and I'm not sure it ever saw much
duty (for as advanced as it is). Amazing that much hasn't come near to
replacing it. But then maybe we don't need it replaced.</DIV>
<DIV>I have been facinated by it from a very young age. Wish I could see one
in real life.<BR>~Lance</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
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