#Tom Halloran

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Don't Turn Around by All India Radio (featuring Yin) from the album Afterworld

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In this fabulous photograph newly released by Jim Goodall to myself Linda Sheffield the U2 is leading the #955 SR -71.

In an operational sortie, this would never be the case.

Are the U-2s retired?  I heard a rumor that there is going to be a retirement party sometime this year. I was fortunate when I visited Beale Air Force Base last September 2024. I had the opportunity to watch a U-2 take off and stand up close to one while an instructor described the U2 to my 1974 Wheatland Union High School 50th reunion. I do not know the answer if they are retired or on the verge of retirement or not. I hope they will be like the B-52 and stay around forever. 

I do know that a variety of different U2s have been in service since the 1960s.

The SR-71 was invented by Kelly Johnson to replace the U2.

 Multiple U2s were shot down by the Chinese on risky overfly missions performed by Taiwanese pilots in search of nuclear power plants. A U-2 was shot down by the Cubans in 1962 a U2 was shot down by the Russians in 1960. There was never an SR 71 that was shot down. 

The Skunk Works® is the proud home of eight Collier Trophies. Some of the Skunk Works' most notable aircraft have received the prestigious trophy, which bears the name of the past publisher and early president of the Aero Club of America, Robert J. Collier. The trophy is awarded annually by the National Aeronautic Association for the greatest achievement in aeronautics or astronautics in America.

In 1998 the updated version of the U2 won this prestigious award. How do I know this? It was my father Skunk Works director Richard “Butch” Sheffield, who led the group to win this award. Butch was asked by Jack Gordon, president of Skunk Works if he thought it was possible to win. Skunk Works did win I was at the award ceremony in Washington DC in 1999 to watch my father and his team accept the trophy on behalf of the Skunk Works.

Butch gave his trophy to his friend whom he was crewed with in the SR-71 retired Colonel Robert Spencer, SR-71 Pilot and U2 pilot. There have been 12 men who went from flying the U2 to the SR-71.  One of those men who recently helped me write an article that was a Pilot in both U2 and SR-71 is StormyBdxStormy Boudreaux. Other men who flew both were Major General Patrick Halloran, Colonel Buddy Brown, Lt ColTony Bevacqua Tony Bevacqua, Col Buz Carpenter,Billy Burke, Tom Danielson, Dan House, Willie Lawson, Bob Powell, Roy StMartin and Col George Bull. I knew or knew all of these men.

NASA has played a role with the U2 like it did with the YF 12 and the SR 71.

NASA operates two Airborne Science ER-2 aircraft for satellite verification and other science-related missions. NASA has said that “since the Airborne Science Program’s inaugural flight on Aug. 31, 1971, NASA U-2s and ER-2s have flown more than 4,500 data missions and test flights in support of scientific research.”

Many knew the U-2 as the Dragon Lady. The nickname came from a popular comic strip character in the 1930s. During that period, the Dragon Lady was a nickname that stereotyped Asian women as seductive and dangerous.

 Written by Linda Sheffield

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Hello, fellow IThead. 🎈

I picked up King’s You Like It Darker and a character named Deirdre Hanlon is named in passing in one of the stories, “Finn”.

Can you think of any instances where the adult Losers might have connections to the outside world after leaving Derry in the 60s? Are they mentioned or implied anywhere else in his universe? I know of Dick Halloran, but that’s about it.

(Time to make another bingo card.)

HEY OMG NEW HANLON CHARACTER IN 2024?! How did i not know about this!!!

Off the top of my head all i can think of iiiiis…Paul Sheldon mentions a Mrs. Kaspbrak being friends with his mum when he was a kid in Misery which i have 2 assume is some relation! Maybs one of the many kaspbrak aunts. Also both Duma Key and The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon credit songs (!) written by richie/bill. I haven’t read insomnia yet but i know it’s a Derry book and Mike Hanlon pops up.

It’s pre-60s but one of my fave losers mentions is in dreamcatcher!!!!

[kwebtv]

TV Guide - February 20 - 26, 1965

Oliver Burgess Meredith (November 16, 1907 – September 9, 1997) Actor and director in film, theater and television.  To television audiences he is best known for appearing in four memorable episodes of “The Twilight Zone“ and for portraying The Penguin in the series “Batman“. 

He appeared in various western series too, such as Rawhide (four times), The Virginian (twice), Wagon Train, Branded, The Wild Wild West, The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters, Laredo, Bonanza and Daniel Boone. In 1963, he appeared as Vincent Marion in a five-part episode of the last season of the Warner Brothers ABC detective series 77 Sunset Strip. He starred three times in Burke’s Law (1963–1964), starring Gene Barry.

In 1965 he portrayed Principal Martin Woodbridge in the series Mr. Novak for 15 episodes.

From 1972-73, Meredith played V.C.R. Cameron, director of Probe Control, in the television movie/pilot Probe and then in Search, the subsequent TV series.  In the 1982-1983 season he portrayed Dr. Willard Adam in the TV series “Gloria”. 

In the mid-1950s, he was one of four narrators of the NBC and syndicated public affairs program, The Big Story (1949–58), which focused on courageous journalists.

In 1978 he was the voice of Puff in the series of animated adaptations of the Peter, Paul, and Mary song Puff, the Magic Dragon. - (Wikipedia)

James Grover Franciscus (January 31, 1934 – July 8, 1991) Film and television actor, known for his roles in feature films and in six television series: Mr. Novak, The Naked City, The Investigators, Longstreet, Doc Elliot, and Hunter.

His first major role was as Detective Jim Halloran in the half-hour version of ABC’s Naked City. Franciscus guest starred on the CBS military comedy–drama Hennesey, starring Jackie Cooper, and on the NBC drama about family conflicts in the American Civil War entitled The Americans. CBS soon cast him in the lead in the 13-week series The Investigators, which aired from October 5 to December 28, 1961. He played the insurance investigator Russ Andrews, with James Philbrook as a co-star. Franciscus was also cast in the role of Tom Grover in the 1961 episode “The Empty Heart” of the CBS anthology seriesThe DuPont Show with June Allyson. He performed in many feature films and television programs throughout the 1960s and 1970s, preceded by a minor role in an episode of The Twilight Zone titled “Judgment Night” in 1959, and a major role in episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents: “Forty Detectives Later” in 1960, and “Summer Shade” in 1961.  (Wikipedia)

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Daily Book - Hexbreaker

Hexbreaker Jordan L. Hawk Adult Fantasy / Historical / Romance (Hexworld #1), 2016, 240 pg Irish-American gay male MC x Italian-English gay male MC with trauma from past abuse Will a dark history doom their future together?New York copper Tom Halloran is a man with a past. If anyone finds out he once ran with the notorious O’Connell tunnel gang, he’ll spend the rest of his life doing hard…

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In a last-ditch effort to save his career, sports agent JB Bernstein dreams up a wild game plan to find Major League Baseball’s next great pitcher from a pool of cricket players in India. He soon discovers two young men who can throw a fastball but know nothing about the game of baseball. Or America. It’s an incredible and touching journey that will change them all — especially JB, who learns valuable lessons about teamwork, commitment and family. Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: J. B. Bernstein: Jon Hamm Tom House: Bill Paxton Brenda Paauwe: Lake Bell Rinku: Suraj Sharma Ash Vasudevan: Aasif Mandvi Dinesh: Madhur Mittal Amit: Pitobash Ray Arkin: Alan Arkin Lisette: Bar Paly Pete: Al Sapienza Chang: Tzi Ma Theresa: Allyn Rachel Indian Reporter: Ravi Naidu Hot Girl: Gabriela Lopez Basketball Player (uncredited): Tanner Anderson Scout: Tom Verducci Mark: Brett Zimmerman Film Crew: Editor: Tatiana S. Riegel Music: A. R. Rahman Casting Director: Sheila Jaffe Supervising Sound Editor: Mark P. Stoeckinger First Assistant Director: Mike Topoozian Screenplay: Tom McCarthy Production Design: Barry Robison Producer: Joe Roth Director of Photography: Gyula Pados Director: Craig Gillespie Costume Designer: Kirston Leigh Mann Set Decoration: Jeanette Scott Producer: Mark Ciardi Producer: Gordon Gray Co-Producer: Tabrez Noorani Unit Production Manager: Kevin Halloran Co-Producer: Neil Mandt Executive Producer: Palak Patel Executive Producer: Connor Schell Art Direction: Jeremy Woolsey Executive Producer: Bill Simmons Casting Director: Seher Aly Latif Sound Designer: Alan Rankin Music Supervisor: Jon Mooney Hair Department Head: Theraesa Rivers Key Hair Stylist: Arturo Rojas Key Makeup Artist: Ron Pipes Second Assistant Director: Michael McCue Co-Producer: Michael Mandt Makeup Department Head: Lana Horochowski Visual Effects Supervisor: Sean Thigpen Movie Reviews: r96sk: I can’t say there is anything overly noteworthy about ‘Million Dollar Arm’. but it’s well paced and features a great (true) story – it makes for a very enjoyable 124 minutes. Jon Hamm is a good choice to play lead character JB, he does carry the film with his performance. There are other pleasant performances though, Pitobash Tripathy (Amit) stands out most from those behind Hamm. Bill Paxton (Tom), Lake Bell (Brenda), Suraj Sharma (Rinku) and Madhur Mittal (Dinesh) merit props too. It’s a feel-good premise, one that is rather nice to see play out. The score is solid, as is the cinematography. It’s a positive that they spend a decent chunk of the film actually in India, I had a inkling they might’ve skipped it but thankfully they do not – they tell the story well. It’s probably Disneyfied in ways, but who cares. It isn’t anything necessarily special, but I certainly thoroughly enjoyed this. Recommended.

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🐎John Wayne, Gail Russell, Harry Carey | Angel and the Badman (1947) | Western

Angel and the Badman is a 1947 US  Western movie written and directed by James Edward Grant. The stars are  John Wayne, Gail Russell, Harry Carey, and Bruce Cabot.  The story is about an injured gunfighter who is nursed back to health by a young Quaker woman and her family whose way of life influences him and his violent ways. At the time of the movie's release, The New York Times wrote, "Mr. Wayne and company have sacrificed the usual roaring action to fashion a leisurely Western, which is different from and a notch or two superior to the normal sagebrush saga." Cast John Wayne as Quirt Evans Gail Russell as Penelope Worth Harry Carey as Marshal Wistful McClintock Bruce Cabot as Laredo Stevens Irene Rich as Mrs. Worth Lee Dixon as Randy McCall Stephen Grant as Johnny Worth Tom Powers as Dr. Mangram Paul Hurst as Frederick Carson Olin Howland as Telegraph Operator Bradley John Halloran as Thomas Worth Joan Barton as Lila Neal Craig Woods as Ward Withers Marshall Reed as Nelson Never miss a video. Join the channel so that Mr. P can notify you when new videos are uploaded: https://www.youtube.com/@nrpsmovieclassics

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Nola2023 - Part One

My flight on December 12, 2023, from Boston to New Orleans flew over Plymouth, and then right down the middle of Buzzards Bay.

Here's the east shore of Buzzard's Bay, from Monument Beach to Woods Hole.

That's Woods Hole down there! My house is just to the left of that cloud.

Then we flew by Robinsons Hole and Quicks Hole, with Menemsha and Gay Head just to the south!

DCA was an intermediate stop.

Finally we landed in New Orleans!

Every day of my visit had at least one remarkable musical delight. Victor Campbell, for example, a piano monster reminiscent of James Booker. He completely dominated the keyboard. Look at those hands.

Victor was a few minutes late for his gig. Dylan Decker, a young musician with some serious piano chops, filled in until Victor arrived. Victor and Dylan played a couple of great four-handed pieces.

Victor and Dylan were presented by the New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park on Decatur Street, which does a jazz hour every day Tuesday through Saturday at 2PM. I went to three of these, and saw three remarkable performances. More below.

Marla Dixon and Charlie Halloran in the same band? Either I was dreaming or I was in New Orleans. Marla sure can sing . . . and play. Halloran's trombone work is astounding. I saw both of them several times on this visit. The music in New Orleans is more plentiful and more accessible than anywhere I've ever been.

Another night, another venue, more musicians playing more great music. That's Marla on trumpet and Aurora Nealand (who I also saw several times, and can't adequately describe because my vocabulary of superlatives isn't big enough). That's Julie (I think) on bass, and I don't know who those guys on bone and guitar are.

Albanie Falletta, who I knew from NYC, showed up as a (BIG) surprise guest with Aurora and Tom McDermott at Buffas. She's living in NOLA now.

Once New Orleans discovers that Albanie Falletta is in their midst, we'll hear a lot more from her.

Part deux soon.

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It wasn’t just me who did any of that,” Tom protested to Cicero. “I mean the hexbreaking, aye, but nothing leading up to it.” “True, I was indispensable,” Cicero agreed. “Really, if you think about it, I’m the one who made it all happen. To me, then!” Bill laughed and clinked his tankard with Cicero’s glass of wine. “Aye, cat, I don’t know what we would’ve done without you.” Isaac snorted.

Hexhunter by Jordan L. Hawk

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I am open for debate on some of these

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Rainbow Kitty

I’ve been working on and off since last summer on some silly pictures of the Hexworld boys at Pride, with settings based on some parade-day photos I took last year. Not quite done all of them - injury put me behind schedule. But here’s the first one! 

Completed June 2019

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Cicero: *ordering cake over the phone*

Shop employee: and what would you like the cake to say?

Cicero, covering the phone to look at Tom: Do we want a talking cake?

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SR-71 OL-Griffiss AFB

OL-Griffiss AFB

Rome, New York

1973

Yom Kippur War

The Yom Kippur War SR-71 operation provided a series of 11.4 hour round-robin sorties to the Middle East. Plans were originally made to fly these flights from Beale AFB to the Middle East and recover at Mildenhall, United Kingdom. Upon arrival at Mildenhall to set up recovery operations, Colonel Patrick Halloran, 9th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing Commander, was informed that the British Government had second thoughts about the operation and denied authority to operate from the United Kingdom. The UK's reasoning was a possible Arab oil embargo against their nation. Two SR-71's were assigned to performed the historic 11.4 hour flights, tail numbers #964 and #979. These flights to the Middle East were code named:

"Giant Reach"

(Photo courtesy Tom Pugh)

On 13 October 1973, Pilot Jim Shelton and RSO Gary Coleman in #979, departed Griffiss AFB on the first of a series of flights to the Middle East. After 11.13 hours of flight time involving 6 refuelings and more than five hours of flight above Mach 3.0, Jim Shelton landed SR #979 back at Griffiss AFB, NY. The "Photo Take" was highly successful and provided Defense Analysts and the President of the United States with information about the actual Syrian military situation.

On 25 October 1973, Pilot Al Joersz and RSO John Fuller flew SR #979 on another 11.13 hour non-stop round robin sortie to assess the ground situation around the Sinai and Galilee.

On 02 November 1973, Pilot Bob Helt and RSO Larry Elliott in SR #979,flew a similar Trans-Atlantic sortie to the Yom Kippur War zone in 11.22 hours of flight.

The last flight from Griffiss AFB was 11 November 1973. Blackbird #964 was flown by Pilot Jim Wilson and RSO Bruce Douglass and landed at Seymour Johnson AFB, North Carolina. This sortie lasted 10.49 hours. As snow fell in Rome New York, Colonel Pat Halloran opted for a warmer climate and moved operations to Seymour Johnson AFB, NC.

These SR-71 Reconnaissance flights were instrumental in defusing the war and provided positive intelligence photos to the deeply distrusting Israelis and Arabs. With the shooting war over, OL-SB, Seymour Johnson became the base of operation for continued surveillance of the war zone to insure compliance with the peace accord.

OL-SB

Seymour Johnson AFB, North Carolina

SR-71 "Giant Reach" Operations

On 02 December, 1973, Pilot Jim Sullivan and RSO Noel Widdifield flew the first SR-71 to the Middle East from the Seymour Johnson AFB location. In aircraft #964, this crew flew the round-robin sortie to the Sinai region and returned to Seymour Johnson in 9.56 hours.

On 10 December, 1973, Pilot Pat Bledsoe and RSO Reggie Blackwell flew SR #979 to the Middle East and back in 10.0 hours.

On 25 January, 1974, Pilot Buck Adams and RSO Bill Machorek flew SR #971 in a around-robin sortie to the Middle East in 10.04 hours.

On 07 March, 1974 Pilot Ty Judkins and RSO John Morgan flew SR #979 in 9.45 hours

The final "Giant Reach" flight occurred on 06 April, 1974. SR-71 #979, Piloted by Lee Ransom and RSO Tom Allocca flew to the Middle East and returned to Seymour Johnson AFB in 9.46 hours.

In all, four Sorties were flown from Griffiss AFB, NY averaging 11.4 hours each flight and five Sorties from Seymour Johnson AFB, NC averaging 10 hours each .

SR-71 pilot, Colonel Jim Wilson's recollection of one of the historic SR-71 flights to the Middle East during the Yom Kippur War in 1973 is reproduced below for the Blackbird Community.

Mort Jarvis adds: The whole history of this operation is pretty interesting, like flying the Detachment Package into England and than saying the SR can't land in England and turning around and going to Griffiss, NY. If the SR was still flying with the Real Time down link of Recon intelligence, which the SR was modified to carry prior to retirement, the target take could of been in the command function hands within seconds of the take. I still think the SR-71 could do a better job than what Intel is being obtained now.

Col. Jim Wilson, USAF ( Ret.) Writes:

On Oct 6th 1973, Egypt and Syria opened an offensive against Israel on two fronts, launching a coordinated series of air, armored and artillery attacks into the Sinai and Golan Heights . The preemptive strike came as a result of a failure to resolve territorial disputes arising from the Arab-Israeli War of 1967.

Since no diplomatic progress was being made toward peace, Egypt 's Sadat was convinced that to gain legitimacy at home, he must initiate a war with limited objectives.

Along the Suez Canal, 80,000 well-equipped members of the Egyptian army crossed the Suez and attacked fewer than 500 Israeli defenders. And in the Golan Heights , approximately 180 Israeli tanks faced an onslaught of 1,400 Syrian tanks.

Initial Israeli military losses were significant. And assistance was requested from the USA .

At that time, our reconnaissance satellites didn't have the capability to provide the intelligence needed to sufficiently assess the situation. So, we were alerted to prepare to fly SR-71 missions over the area of conflict, then recover in England . It was a mission within the design capability of the aircraft, although such a long, logistically-difficult mission never previously accomplished.

Within the first few days of the conflict, the supporting Arab nations initiated an oil embargo, making oil a weapon of war and contributed to a decision by the British government to deny us a recovery any place in England .

A Plan B was rapidly drawn up to fly the SR-71 out of the East Coast, then recover back in New York at Griffiss AFB. These newly planned 12,000 mile missions would require (5) five air to air refuelings from (16)sixteen KC-135 tankers based in Spain .

In the utmost secrecy, we mobilized and deployed. A few days later, our first photo/electronic reconnaissance mission was successfully completed.

I was a fairly young pilot in the squadron, with only 120 hours of SR-71 time under my belt. I was assigned to fly a backup SR-71 and to stay at Griffiss in an alert posture, and be prepared to fly follow-on missions. Then I served as back-up alert on two more successful missions.

My turn to be the primary aircraft came up next. The excitement level was high. And I certainly wanted to be part of another success.

Takeoff was at 2AM on a brisk and clear autumn night with about fifteen inches of snow already on the ground. It was peacefully calm . . until I lit both of the 34,000 lb. thrust afterburners.

The first 450 miles had to be flown subsonic at .9 Mach, since we had to clear the commercial aircraft flight tracks off the East Coast before I could safely re-fuel. Most pilots don't know the true meaning of dark until they've been in a situation like this. You might compare it to refueling in an inkwell. I then made made three radio silent electronic rendezvous with three tankers out over the North Atlantic before dawn . . taking on 10,000 gallons of fuel.

After completing a few post-refueling checks, I lit the afterburners and started my acceleration to a leisurely Mach 3 cruise across the Atlantic . The airplane performed flawlessly, thanks to the extra special effort by the maintenance guys.

About 2000 miles across the Atlantic , I watched with excitement as the sun came up right in my face, giving me a nice vantage point.

The next refueling was a couple hundred miles north of the Azores . I took on another 10,000 gallons from a couple more tankers.

I started my second acceleration and headed for Gibraltar . At 80,000 feet, cruising through the center of the narrow straits with clear weather and 100 miles of visibility on both sides. Spectacular.

Then I proceeded down the Mediterranean toward Israel where the weather was becoming worse as per flight plan's forecast.

The third air refueling south of Crete , although in poor weather, went along as scheduled. Now packing in a full load of 80,000 lbs of JP-7 fuel, I lit the afterburners and started the acceleration toward the target area.

At maximum fuel flow in full afterburner, a RED engine oil quantity low light illuminated steady on my emergency warning panel.

In almost unbelief . . I momentarily stared at it !

I instantly scanned oil pressure, rpm, exhaust gas temperature, nozzle position for other indications of trouble. Although there were no confirming indications of problems, I couldn’t just ignore the situation and continue on into the target area with the possibility of an engine failure at supersonic speed out over the Sinai.

We had no viable emergency airfields that could handle the SR-71. And I certainly did not want to be a no-notice, no-flight plan, single engine emergency arrival at David Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv. Especially, since the Israeli government had not been told about our missions, and they were focused on major battles for their own survival.

I took the engines out of afterburner to access the situation, and think about the best course of action.

Then I had a pleasant surprise.

After coming out of afterburner the critical red warning light went out. I became fairly-well convinced that it was a false momentary indication.

But it had cost me roughly 400 gallons of critically needed fuel. My tankers were now 80 miles behind me . . and they were moving further away each second. And re-joining them to top off fuel, would present a whole new set of problems [ I won't get into.]

I decided to re-light the burners and press on. I had a 5 second flash of the same red light during acceleration. Then it went out. Stayed out.

My flight track went down the Suez past Cairo before making a left turn at Mach 3.15 to cross the battle lines in the Sinai. With panoramic and specific point cameras providing imagery of hundreds of targets on both sides of the SR-71, I flew North across the Dead Sea and Golan Heights . Approaching Lebanon , I made a sweeping right turn out over Syria and then back to the Sinai on a parallel flight path for maximum coverage. The airplane was running well. I pushed it up a bit to Mach 3.2 before exiting Egypt near Port Said .

Once out over the Mediterranean , I started a descent to 25,000 feet to hit my fourth set of refuelers.

But as fate would have it, I was not only beong low on fuel because of my previous oil low warning problem, but now a thunderstorm had reached up and it was now enclosing the air re-fueling contact point.

Using our internal electronic azimuth and distance measuring equipment, my backseater got me to within less than a mile behind my tanker. But now, visibility was so poor that I could not see it.

In lousy weather, very low on fuel, I continued twenty miles down the refueling track. By this time, there was just one-half mile and 1000 feet of separation from the tanker.

Small break between the clouds. Hooked up.

I had less than 15 minutes of fuel left, when we made re-fueling contact with the tanker and started transferring. The nearest emergency runway was roughly 100 miles away on Crete .

Needless to say, I was very thankful to my tanker buddies, backseater, and good equipment for that rendezvous. What a relief ! It gave me an entirely new meaning to ' finding a gas station ' . . when I really needed one.

We completed a fifth 10,000 gallon air refueling near the Azores before proceeding on a leisurely Mach 3 flight across the mid-Atlantic to a landing at Seymour Johnson.

Within 20 minutes, our people had the photo and electronic intelligence equipment downloaded, then onboard a dedicated AF courier flight to a Photo Interpretation Center in D.C.

Including 6 hours 41 minutes of supersonic speed, the round-trip flight covered more than 12,000 miles in 10 hours 49 minutes.

After landing, I remember wondering what Lindbergh would have thought about the amazing advancements in aviation technology.

These missions were not declassified until the early 1990's when the SR-71 program was closed at the end of the Cold War. Most of the remaining birds are now in various museums.

The one I flew is the centerpiece at SAC's Air and Space museum near Omaha .

Col. Jim Wilson, USAF ( Ret.)

[abridged ]

SR-71 Photo Archive taken at Seymour Johnson AFB during the Yom Kippur War Operation "OLSB"

Entire SR-71 crew at Seymour Johnson AFB, North Carolina during the Yom Kippur War 1973.

The following personnel participated in the first missions flown out of OLSB. Additional crewmembers (not listed) also participated in these missions. This is the manifest for the Wing Staff personnel on the left and Maintenance on the right.

The following photos are the only ones known to exist of the SR-71 Operations at Seymour Johnson from October, 1973 to April, 1974. At the time, Seymour Johnson was in the process of an ORI (Operational Readiness Inspection) with their B-52's and KC-135's. The Seymour Johnson Wing Commander was not the least bit impressed when we showed up with a DOD directed mission (Yom Kippur War Flights). He was irate about usage of his facilities (We cleared out one of his large hangars and put the two SR's, KC-135Q and our mobile film processing center in the hangar). Additionally, he complained of fuel usage from his facilities by the 9th SRW. A phone call to the Pentagon by 9th SRW Commander Colonel Patrick Halloran resulted in the following, as Pat said: "The problems just went away". The critical war assessment missions were flown as scheduled and we departed Seymour Johnson in April of 1974. I am sure they were glad to see us go home.

The photos show the trailer which was purchased and moved into the hangar for SR-71 Operational Control and the Photo Processing Center which was comprised of 2X4's and plastic sheeting to keep the dust out. The two SR's were parked side by side in the hangar with the KC-135Q tanker opposite the Blackbirds. The flights lasted 10 or 11 hours and in one instance, the Pilot had to be assisted out of the Blackbird. The photo reconnaissance "Take" resulted in conclusive evidence of the location of Arab and Israeli forces. The photos provided the President and Defense Analysts with firm decision making capabilities to help defuse the Yom Kippur War.

OL-SB Photo Archive

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SUPERMAN II

Directed by Richard Lester and Richard Donner Written by Mario Puzo, David Newman, Leslie Newman, & Tom Mankiewicz Released December 1980 Previously: Superman The Movie I remember really enjoying this film as a wee lad, I think because I was just such a huge fan of Superman, but as I grew up my memory of it changed. Watching it again, for the first time in over a decade, has my opinion changed…

[kwebtv]

TV Guide -  November 16 - 22, 1963

James Grover Franciscus (January 31, 1934 – July 8, 1991) Film and television actor, known for his roles in feature films and in six television series: Mr. Novak, The Naked City, The Investigators, Longstreet, Doc Elliot, and Hunter.

His first major role was as Detective Jim Halloran in the half-hour version of ABC's Naked City. Franciscus guest starred on the CBS military comedy–drama Hennesey, starring Jackie Cooper, and on the NBC drama about family conflicts in the American Civil War entitled The Americans. CBS soon cast him in the lead in the 13-week series The Investigators, which aired from October 5 to December 28, 1961. He played the insurance investigator Russ Andrews, with James Philbrook as a co-star. Franciscus was also cast in the role of Tom Grover in the 1961 episode "The Empty Heart" of the CBS anthology series The DuPont Show with June Allyson. He performed in many feature films and television programs throughout the 1960s and 1970s, preceded by a minor role in an episode of The Twilight Zone titled "Judgment Night" in 1959, and a major role in episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents: "Forty Detectives Later" in 1960, and "Summer Shade" in 1961.  (Wikipedia)

Dean Jagger (November 7, 1903 – February 5, 1991)  Film, stage, and television actor who won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Henry King's Twelve O'Clock High (1949) 

In the 1960s, Jagger increasingly worked on television appearing in The Twilight Zone ("Static"), Sunday Showcase, Our American Heritage, General Electric Theater, Dr. Kildare, The Christophers, and The Alfred Hitchcock Hour. 

Jagger achieved success with the television series Mr. Novak (1963–1965), receiving Emmy Award nominations for his role in 1964 and 1965, as well as the California Teachers Association's Communications Award, along with star James Franciscus, in 1963 for his portrayal of high-school principal Albert Vane.

Jagger's appearances in the 1960s included episodes of The F.B.I. and The Fugitive,  as well as the TV filmm The Brotherhood of the Bell (1970), with Ford, and an episode of The Name of the Game.

He had a semiregular role on the series Matt Lincoln (1970) as the father of the title character, and parts in Vanishing Point (1971), Bonanza, and Incident in San Francisco (1971).

In 1971, Jagger appeared on The Partridge Family. He played a prospector named Charlie in the Christmas episode "Don't Bring Your Guns to Town, Santa".

In his later career Jagger was in The Glass House (1972), Columbo, Kung Fu (Jagger appeared as Caine's grandfather, who wants little to do with him, but starts Caine on his series-long search for his half-brother Danny), Alias Smith and Jones, Medical Center, The Stranger (1973), The Delphi Bureau, The Lie (1973), Shaft, I Heard the Owl Call My Name (1973), Love Story, The Hanged Man (1974), The Great Lester Boggs (1974), The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case (1976), Harry O, Hunter, The Waltons ahd Gideon's Trumpet (1980)

He won a Daytime Emmy award for a guest appearance in the religious series This Is the Life.

His last role was as Dr. David Domedion in the St. Elsewhere season-three finale "Cheers" in 1985.  (Wikipedia)

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Angel and the Badman 1947