Today’s Flight Plan
What would it be like to strap into a top secret machine, fly at 80,000 feet and Mach 3+? Our guests today did just that as a crew, flying top secret missions. We catch up with Richard Graham and Don Emmons to hear a few stories of what it was like flying missions in one of the most iconic airplanes in history, the SR-71 Blackbird.
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Chief Flight Instructor and President of Angle of Attack. Founded in 2006.
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