Swedes Save A SR-71

[togor]

'87 incident, declassified in 2018.

Reminder that having friends is a good thing. These Swedish pilots don't act like they liked America just for the Baywatch and The Apprentice reruns.


https://youtu.be/y5Z2Bb-wnls

[barretcreek]

Read about that after it was made public but the video really added to the whole story. Thanks for posting.

[bruce]

Thank you for this post! First I've ever heard of this. Surprised loss of one engine resulted in such a serious issue. Not surprised russian planes reacted in such a predatory manner. After all, they have a history of blasting planes out of the sky without any regard for international standards. Swedish intervention was everything one would expect of a real world ally. Sincerely. bruce.

[Major Tom]

When I was coming back from 'Nam, we landed on Okinawa and we witnessed an SR71 take off. Immediately a security person (Okinawan) wanted to confiscate all our cameras as we were photographing the takeoff. Naturally we told him to 'shove it' and we boarded out plane!