MACH 3 MEN

摘要

In the then 26 years of SBAC shows at Farnborough, it was one of the unforgettable moments. Just before two o'clock on the 1974 event's opening Sunday afternoon, Lockheed SR-71A 61-7972 arrived at the Hampshire airfield at the conclusion of a remarkable flight. In the hands of pilot Maj James V. Sullivan and reconnaissance systems operator Maj Noel F. Widdifield, the US Air Force strategic reconnaissance aircraft had broken the New York-London record, covering 3,461.53 statute miles in just one hour 54 minutes and 56.4 seconds: an average speed of l,806.95mph. Lockheed Skunk Works supremo Clarence 'Kelly' Johnson was moved to say, "It has exceeded all my expectations."