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Subject: SR71

Written By: kelberts on 09/13/04 at 7:44 pm

Not for nuthin', but do people REALLy not know that the SR71 (Blackbird) was a Mach 3 CIA spy plane?

The band name therfore is not meaningless and/or stupid (IMHO) ---

Subject: Re: SR71

Written By: mrgazpacho on 09/14/04 at 1:19 am

Mach 6, I think it was.  Had to fly highr and faster after the USSR shot down the U2 8)

Of course, just because it's based on something REAL doesn't stop it from being DUMB - that depends on their professed reason for calling themselves that...

Subject: Re: SR71

Written By: sputnikcorp on 09/14/04 at 6:48 am

no, it was mach 3 (unless the US never released the true specs of the craft).

Subject: Re: SR71

Written By: Kryllith on 09/14/04 at 7:30 am

Saw plenty of fake specs in Cloak and Dagger though. ;)

Kryllith

Subject: Re: SR71

Written By: mrgazpacho on 09/14/04 at 6:14 pm

Yeah, Mach 3. I read about it as a 10-year-old and my impressionable mind must have inflated the figure :D

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