| Atlantis |
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| 07/24/05 04:25 AM |
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All Blackbirds Visible by Satellite
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Greetings, this is my first post. I have been searching for Blackbirds on the ground and have collected 18 of them.
As far as I am aware the other remaining Blackbird aircraft are either destroyed/cannibalised or under cover in museums.
EDIT : Added a Ninth one.
EDIT : Added a tenth one
EDIT : Got twelve now thanks to Renegade
EDIT : Got thirteen thanks to Criper2000
EDIT : Added another three thanks to Hill and af_mmolina
EDIT : thanks to esterrett for finding another 2
| jeffryv |
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| 07/24/05 04:39 AM |
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Fantastic 1st post
Cool!!!!
They have all been Placemarked before, but never as a complete collection
| Atlantis |
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| 07/24/05 04:54 AM |
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Quote:
Fantastic 1st post
Cool!!!!
They have all been Placemarked before, but never as a complete collection
Thanks, I did a search for blackbird but I think I will have to brush up on my search technique. I was only searching topics newer than one week. I will check out the others.
EDIT: Added a ninth one.
| jeffryv |
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| 07/24/05 05:20 AM |
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Also you might want to turn on "Layers"
Keyhole BBS Layer
| Atlantis |
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| 07/24/05 07:22 PM |
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I have worked out the Keyhold Community BBS layer thanks.
Added a tenth Blackbird to the list.
| Calico_Jack |
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| 07/24/05 07:44 PM |
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I'm surprised no one has rated this one yet. Effort expended should be rewarded (most excellent AND interesting first post).
| Renegade |
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| 07/24/05 11:17 PM |
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Here is one at Eglin:
30°27'57.03"N
86°33'43.98"W
Here is one at Randolph:
29°23'22.88"N
98°37'14.62"W
| Atlantis |
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| 07/25/05 12:26 AM |
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Thanks Renegade,
I have added your two to the collection. We now have twelve blackbirds in the kmz file.
I can't stop whistling 4 and 20 Blackbirds baked in a pie.
| Criper2000 |
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| 07/25/05 04:19 PM |
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i found another one not marked thats also at edwards afb
34° 54' 45" N
117° 55' 13.8" W
| jclarke |
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| 07/25/05 04:30 PM |
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Welcome to the BBS, criper! The easiest way to post a location is to create a placemark at the location describing the object (use the "pushpin" icon on Google Earth), then right click on it and do a "save as". This will save a .kmz attachement, which you can then add to your post (the BBS will let you add an attachment when you preview the post). This is much simpler for everyone than just posting lat/long coordinates.
Before you add a new placemark, though, you'll want to turn on the Keyhole Community BBS layer (in the layers menu, bottom left) which will show you any existing placemarks at the location.
| Criper2000 |
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| 07/25/05 04:43 PM |
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thanks for the info. i attached the placemark
| ExGrunt |
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| 07/25/05 04:54 PM |
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I thought there were only 2 Blackbirds
I watched a Documentry on them and they said the US only had 2
NICE
| ERAU_PRC_PILOT |
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| 07/25/05 05:35 PM |
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How could you guys miss this one?
Problem is that It's covered, but there's a blackbird under that structure, along with a drone. That is the Pima Air and Space museum in TUcson, AZ. Been there more than ten times, and it never gets boring!!!
| Hill |
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| 07/26/05 12:10 AM |
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Here's a picture of the only 2-seat A-12 trainer being installed outside of the California Science Center in Los Angeles.
Update: The latest imagery finally shows it in place.
More pictures
Here is a list of the locations of all remaining Blackbirds of all types.
| af_mmolina |
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| 07/26/05 08:01 AM |
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Just a note to you guys, theres one at Barksdale AFB now on display, but the image isnt up to date so you cant see it right now.
| number1fan |
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| 07/26/05 08:02 AM |
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Museum of Flight - Seattle WA
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There is also another under aroof in Seattle!
Museum of Flight
| Rex_Rexworth |
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| 07/26/05 08:05 AM |
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Not true... I think there were somewhere around 20 of them. There may be only 2 in use today, though. After the project was scrapped, I heard that they pulled a couple out of retirement for some special mission or something.
| Atlantis |
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| 07/30/05 03:47 AM |
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Quote:
thanks for the info. i attached the placemark
Can anyone positively identify the serial number of Criper2000's 13th Blackbird?
| Atlantis |
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| 07/30/05 05:34 AM |
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Thanks Hill, I have added that one along with two others to total 16 Blackbirds on the ground (visible or soon to be)
As it is a collection of placemarks, I have just been editing the kmz file etc in my first post, so I hope that is an ok practice.
| Renegade |
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| 08/01/05 10:44 AM |
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Here is another one, underneath this Shelter:
32° 8'21.41"N
110°51'56.33"W
EDIT:
OK I just saw post above. This is the one at PIMA. And I will start using KMZ files instead of L&L.
| BruceR |
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| 08/01/05 01:33 PM |
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Yes, I've been there, it's indoors, about 4 miles south of your placemark.
The BB there a special version with a remote control drone that seperates from the tail.
| number1fan |
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| 08/02/05 08:51 AM |
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Bruce,
How long ago were you there?
I went to a museum in the early 199o's that
was south of where I put the Place Mark.
They had an A-12 on the floor.
Web site
n1f
Bruce,
Went back to the site I got directions from the Mapquest link-- showing where I had posted the pm. deleted now
| BruceR |
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| 08/04/05 08:59 AM |
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I was there in about '99 or 2000. You can see the planes on GE. eg, Air Force One. And the Red Barn (Boeing's birthplace) is placemarked on the Community layers.
| mikedd969 |
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| 08/04/05 10:13 AM |
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There is another one (the two seater version) on display at the USS Alabama Memorial Park in Mobile AL. It is parked outside about 80% of the time these days, so if they ever update the coverage of Mobile you may get lucky on this one as well. THe next time I'm there I'll get the registration number for you.
| opticsnake |
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| 08/07/05 06:33 AM |
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Google Maps posted a bunch as well
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Found this post on digg.com
http://digg.com/technology/Cool_Google_Maps_Overlay_showing_SR-71_Blackbirds
I'm sure that most of them are ones that you guys have already found but thought you might be interested anyways.
| Grimmie |
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| 08/30/05 04:31 PM |
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SR-71A #17962 - Flyable in storage. To be put on display at the Imperial War Museum in Duxford, England.OOPS!!! ( Old data)
Hay a plane that can be in 2 places at once. That is fast for a old aircraft.
http://aam.iwm.org.uk/server/show/ConWebDoc.1105
UPDATE:It is the SR-71 17955 the SR-71A #17962 hsa been moved to its new home in the UK
| Atlantis |
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| 08/31/05 04:28 AM |
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Hi Grimmie,
According to this link:-
http://www.habu.org/sr-71/17962a.html
(Which I consider the blackbird bible)
Confirms that 17962 now in Duxford came from Palmdale in April 2001, but that plane you placemarked is 25 Miles North East of Palmdale.
I remember now that my friend esterrett has actually already identified this bird as 17955 using these photos taken in 2004 http://www.sr-71.org/photogallery/blackbird/17955/17955-2004-06.htm
Check out the B52 in the background as a reference.
Here are some more photos of 61-7955 in her final home.
http://www.habu.org/sr-71/17955c.html
Thanks for the heads up, I have updated my collection of placemarks to include this bird as being identified as 61-7955.
Atlantis
P.s. The display @ Duxford museum is under a roof.
| Atlantis |
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| 08/31/05 04:42 AM |
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Now we can actually see it, the satellite imagery really shows the original silvery color of this one up.
http://www.habu.org/a-12/06927.html
| kjfitz |
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| 06/27/06 01:30 PM |
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Two of these are gone after the most recent database update:
2 Blackbirds 61-7962 & 61-7980
There is also one in a different place at Edwards AFB now (perhaps one of the two listed above?) I've attached a pointer to the newly placed one.
| StealthyJJ |
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| 08/25/06 09:56 PM |
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Here is Blackbird 61-7981. It is located at the Hill AFB Museum in Utah. All the info about it is attached to the placemark. Enjoy!
| Panther37 |
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| 08/27/06 11:53 PM |
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http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/56930/
I think there might be two threads going on here.
| StealthyJJ |
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| 08/29/06 09:54 PM |
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OK. Just wondering. Are there any sled drivers following this forum for the blackbird? Would be interesting to hear if there was.
| Atlantis |
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| 08/30/06 05:36 AM |
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Quote:
OK. Just wondering. Are there any sled drivers following this forum for the blackbird? Would be interesting to hear if there was.
Most Sled drivers would have checked out where all their birds have ended up for sure. Using Google Earth would be logical for a spy plane pilot, you know, looking down from a familiar view and all.
| Downtrodden_Willie_Dixon |
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| 02/22/07 07:35 AM |
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There is one in BattleShip Park in Mobile, AL. But it is indoors. You can see it on their site.
http://www.ussalabama.com/html/collection/index.php
| meeatu |
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| 07/01/07 04:37 AM |
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you should move 60-6933 over to the southwest a touch, but other than that, Great post! are they all working, or are some just scaled models?
| Atlantis |
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| 07/02/07 02:26 AM |
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Hi meeatu,
Thanks
They are all real decommissioned aircraft.
60-6933 is the aircraft's serial number with which you can research it's history.
http://www.google.com/search?q=60-6933
| rambo54 |
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| 07/02/07 09:48 AM |
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Fine work! I'm sure you already noticed that 61-7980 changed position at edwards to 34°57'10.58"N 117°53'19.99"W...
Cheers
| rambo54 |
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| 07/28/07 04:06 AM |
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Hi everybody!
I'm sure you know about the Tom Mahood's "The Hunt for 928" on "http://www.serve.com/mahood/a-12/index.htm".
Part of Nevada got new pictures now and the mentioned area is on High Res...good hunting. I was not able to transfer the mysterious hints of mahood into an exact crash site position but i marked some of the locations he mentioned.
| gariac |
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Oh, the A12 crash. Been there, done that. ;-)
http://www.lazygranch.com/h4h4928_2.htm
There is so little debris there, it will not be spotted on Google Earth. Even the F-4 crash near Rachel doesn't show up very well, and there is plenty of debris there.
To the best of my knowledge, this is where Ray landed
37°15'41.82"N 114°21'5.92"W
At least visually. As you know, GE isn't very accurate. I really couldn't make much of the Ray landing site.
| rambo54 |
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| 01/03/08 08:37 AM |
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Great effort - great story! Thanks a lot!
Regarding the newspaper elements of your link...does your position of "Ray" mean that the debris you found are a further 3 miles to the east ?
Greetings from rambo54
| TOMBAL |
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| 05/09/08 07:49 AM |
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Snaps of the Duxford Blackbird inside the placemark.
| gariac |
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| 05/10/08 12:47 AM |
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Ray and his bird are pretty far apart. I don't recall the distance. I plotted a vector between them to go looking for the cameras, saw the distance, and decided it was a pretty dumb idea.
To be honest, I came away from Ray's landing zone with not much of a feeling that I found something. That is, I think I found where they cleared some land for the chopper. But there was much mining debris in the area, so you can't tell what is what. Beer cans, stuff like that. Some of the trash looked pretty recent.
I went back and looked at the A12 site and where the F15 was located. You just can't tell much from google earth. It is no big secret that roads on the satellite image that are not on topo maps COULD lead to a crash. But there are many roads that seem to go no where.
You can always file a FOIA and get the CIA report. Also, you can try to FOIA the USAF Flight safety center. [Lackland, Kirtland, one of those places.]
| mnj1233 |
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| 05/12/08 09:04 AM |
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Apolagize in advance if this is a duplicate but I did not see it posted here [image]
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| mnj1233 |
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| 05/12/08 09:13 AM |
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San Diego SR71 [image]
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| mnj1233 |
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| 05/12/08 09:14 AM |
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San Diego SR71 (Street View)
| mnj1233 |
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| 05/12/08 09:22 AM |
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To the Moderaters..... I just posted in here and noticed I labled them as SR22's. Just a Freudian slip as I work with Cirrus Aircraft Daily!!!! Sorry meant to type SR71. I corrected the placemark labels already.
| TOMBAL |
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| 05/14/08 08:34 PM |
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A couple of problems in your file:
1. You have four image overlays. None of them point to valid
Web addresses.
2. The email address you provide - blackbird@ubero.us - is invalid.
Cheers!