The following collection of documents is know as "Buddy Brown's Book". It is a compilation of Blackbird historical facts written and maintained by Buddy L. Brown, SR-71 Crewmember. It is the most complete and accurate accounting of who qualified and flew the Lockheed Blackbird series of aircraft. In addition there is an extensive collection of "Milestones" of the Blackbirds; each and every one a significant historical event or document. If you want to know who did what where, it is probably here in this set of pages.
Index Links:
Pilot Names and Qualifying Dates
Reconnaissance System Operator Names and Qualifying Dates
Crewmembers that flew 300 Hours in the SR-71 Aircraft
Crewmembers that flew 900 Hours in the SR-71 Aircraft
Crewmembers that flew 1,000 Hours in the SR-71 Aircraft
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6. Ben Rich's "SR-71 Retirement Ceremony" speech at Beale AFB, California, 26 January 1990. Appendix B
7. Supplement-NASA qualifying Crew Members
8. Supplement-Searchable
database (by Name) on all personnel that qualified to fly a Blackbird
This entire set of "Flight Crews of the Blackbirds" and subset "Milestones" is the copyrighted property of Buddy L. Brown. Permission to reprint to the "SR-71 Blackbirds" website has been granted.
Copyrighted on April 14, 2001. Revised on March 29, 2004
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