Talk about under the radar!

[Rapier]

Rocky,
Thanks for posting this. Interesting. Were you ever at the Hurlburt range when a B1-B flew over on a low level bomb run going to the north range? I think those guys took pine needles with them.

You will apreciate this, I think. The best low level I ever saw in person was when a buddy of mine was visiting and I took him over to East Pass to look at the water. We parked at the east end of the bridge on the bluff south of the road over looking the water. About the time we had walked over to the edge of the parking lot, we heard a rumbling roar coming from the south, out on the gulf, and looked out that way. Far out over the water we could see a black dot right on the water, coming hard, real hard. As it got closer we relized it was a very big aircraft moving very fast. It flew right down the pass and had to climb to clear the bridge! It was an SR-71 making her final flight. She was on her way to become the static display at the mesuem on Eglin AFB and the pilot was showing what she could do in low level flight. Man, what a sight that was, a jet black SR-71 in flight, over crystal blue water and white sand and I had no camera.
Ed