Another Aspen story

Spanky · Post by **Spanky** » Fri May 12, 2006 8:30 am

BTW....Aspen is the common call sign used by the SR-71 crews on training flights.

In another famous SR-71 story, Los Angeles Center reported receiving a request for clearance to FL 600 (60,000ft).
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 come down to it..."
He was cleared..

Boomerang · Post by **Boomerang** » Fri Jun 30, 2006 1:46 pm

Ok another good SR-71 quote i found.

You know the part in 'High Flight where it talks about putting out your hand to touch the face of God? Well, when we're at speed and altitude in the SR, we have to slow down and descend in order to do that.

— USAF Lt. Col. Gil Bertelson, SR-71 pilot, in 'SR-71 Blackbird: Stories, Tales and Legends,' 2002.