Don't Kid Yourselves... "Old Guys"... Really DO... Know Their *STUFF*

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This "Old Dude"... is Arne Gundersson... He is a Former Engineer for Pratt & Whitney narrating this Amazing Video up at the "Air Zoo" up in Kalamazoo, Michigan. As a Younger Man, Gundersson went to work for the CIA conducting Top Secret Flight Engineering at the Lockheed "Skunk Works" on the Famous P&W J-58 Jet Engines that allowed the SR-71 Reconnaissance and Surveillance Airplane (Called by the CIA Spy-Craft Nick-Name of "Archangel" , 'The Article' and "Blackbird") to achieve the incredible maximum speed of Mach 3.5+ (just B4 Flame-Out) while moving at a Blistering 2,400 MPH at an Altitude of 80,000 Feet above the Earth's Surface... almost upon the Doorstep of Outer Space.

Here is How the P&W J-58 Engines DID IT:

 

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For anyone interested in The History of the Cold War at a time when we came SO dangerously close to vaporizing most of the life on The Planet Earth, this is a timely On Topic, Full Length Movie based upon the True Story called, "The Bridge of Spies" with Tom Hanks playing the role of the Lawyer named Jim Donovan who represented the Captured (then) Soviet Spy named Rudolph Ivanovich Abel, marvelously portrayed by Mark Rylance.

Around that same time in the 1960s, the Pilot mentioned by Arne Gundersson in the Last Post, Francis Gary Powers, was shot down from 70,000 Feet while inside of his U-2 High Altitude Spy Plane and flying over Russia; which in part, *accelerated* (PUN Intended) the Development of the SR-71 Blackbird Plane as "THE Fastest Plane EVER Flown above the World". This is an important piece of American and World History that we should all know about and try to remember...more so NOW than you might *THINK*: