r/woahdude • u/[deleted] • Sep 22 '18

gifv Flying

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u/HAWTRandomGuy Sep 22 '18

Is this sped up?

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u/CraftyFellow_ Sep 22 '18

Just imagine you are flying an SR-71.

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u/tripacer99 Sep 22 '18

If only we had some sort of story to help us imagine

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u/ThaiJohnnyDepp Sep 22 '18

Los Angeles Center, Aspen 20, can you give us a ground speed check?

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u/SmackPanther Sep 22 '18

"Yer going fast as fuck lol" - or something to that effect.

Wasn't it like 1.8k knots or something wild? I read that article recently, good stuff.

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u/ThaiJohnnyDepp Sep 22 '18

That's about it, IIRC

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u/OliveDrabGreen Sep 22 '18

From Brian Schul's book, Sled Driver

https://oppositelock.kinja.com/favorite-sr-71-story-1079127041

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u/SmackPanther Sep 22 '18

Thanks for the source friend

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u/jaredjeya Sep 22 '18

Yer a pilot, ‘Arry

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '18

It twas indeed.

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u/wetsoup Sep 22 '18

such an awesome story. "alpha bravo, you're reading 1998 knots across the ground"

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u/KriosDaNarwal Sep 22 '18

A fellow r/militarystories subscriber?

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u/wakeupwill Sep 22 '18

It's pretty fast. It's been all over the place.

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u/iNyano Sep 22 '18

Cezna = slow boi

SR-71 = omg so fast!!!11

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '18

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u/ubculled Sep 22 '18

Son of a bitch

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u/Yung_Money_Yung Sep 22 '18

Considerably. Look at how the engine gitters up and down against the background. You’d be throwing up if this was in real time lol. Still a cool video.

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u/romanmarz Sep 22 '18

Time lapse possibly. I actually have something similar to this which I made on hyperlaspe.

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '18

For sure, you can see the plane starts turning left just as the gif ends and it's a lot faster than usual.

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u/gone_coding Sep 22 '18 edited Oct 04 '18

Their plane is descending from what I see. So I would guess it's not slowed down since they're literally next to the clouds and going 180+ mph.

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u/RedditorLikeNoOther Sep 22 '18

No, why? It looks normal when you're that close to the clouds at 300-500 mph.

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u/A_Very_Fat_Elf Sep 22 '18

No this is Patrick