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Old 11-07-2018, 01:14 PM
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Falling from a SR-71

Never heard of this story before.

https://youtu.be/nRyIGTkcmII

Apparently during the testing phase of the SR-71 they were seeing what would happen if there CG was moved father back. They had a engine failure due to an unstart (see the video) and at Mach 3.1 @78k feet and the plane tore itself apart. The pilot survived, the RO did not. Pretty amazing that the pilot survived a catastrophic failure at that altitude.
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