BD-0011 Flying the Lockheed SR-71 with Maury Rosenberg Oral History 

Lt.Col Rosenberg was one of the friendliest Air Force pilots I've ever had the privilege to work with. It's good to see him again after so many years! Excellent interview!

You know you love this airplane when you find this video interesting and the hour just flies by. Thanks for the upload!

Maury Rosenberg looks so laid back about his time flying B/Birds . I take my hat off to him & his crew looking after our safety. He has a wonderful turn of phrase that I could have listened all day to him. Thank you for posting this video.

This is GREAT, Love the stories and very informative. Maury Rosenberg is a joy to listen to, very informative. All the pilots, engineers, designers, involved in the SR-71 are what makes America GREAT!!!! Thank you for your service Maury.

Lt. Colonel Rosenberg - thank you for your service! Paul (in MA)

Thanks for the vid this guy was my wing king at Beale 88 - 90. I was a crew chief.

Oh man...this made my year. I've been trying to track down the two supposed "best SR-71 books" SledDriver and The Untouchables for a while now, but THIS is fantastic. Just too damn cool to actually see and hear an actual pilot of the Blackbird talk about his sorties IN DETAIL like this......just fascinating.

heard from one of those pilots at the air museum in DC, standing in front of the sr71 there, very very interesting to hear, could have stayed all day.

Most excellent, he will be missed. R.I.P.

Great interview. So refreshing to have a knowledgeable and intelligent interviewer who asks the right questions and doesnt 'dumb it down'

Great questions. Unusual content,but most interesting .The nuts and bolts side of flying mach 3. Imagine the adrenaline after you belt yourself in and pause for a minute and look out the windows at the craft {front 10 feet} you could almost feel as if you're sitting in a jet boat, But one that flies and will propell you to 2250miles per hour.Man that's awsome. Thanks for the video.. .

The Richard Graham interview gives the pilot more control of the story.

Yup, great interview. I made a point when I was in DC to take a bus to Virginia so I could see an SR-71 at the larger Air and Space Smithsonian. It was really worth the long bus ride there!

I have been watching a ton SR pilot interviews for the past week, these guys all lived incredible lives, what an incredible program and aircraft! Would have to be incredibly brave and skilled to pilot such a machine. I have seen two, one at Pima air museum and one at Warner Robins but never got to see it fly :(

I was lucky enough to see the SR71 two different times at Beale AFB airshows when I was a kid in the early to mid1980's. Back then they were allowed to break the sound barrier and the double boom of the SR71 going super sonic overhead was something I'll never forget! The blackbird did low altitude fly by's in afterburner and because of the speed when it flew by you didn't hear the plane it would fly by silently and a few seconds behind it you heard the roar of the blackbird's huge jet motors. At one of the airshows at Beale AFB the SR71 flew from Europe to Beale AFB they told us over the loud speakers where the SR71 was and when it's would be approaching and the arrival to Beale AFB. I remember when it arrived and flew over head at probably 25-30,000 feet and broke the sound barrier, after the SR71 landed and taxi'd over stopped, shutdown it was roped off so know one could get too close to the plane. The pilot and rco exited the plane and after changing out of their pressure suits into fight suits we were lucky and were able to talk and ask them questions, as a young boy I was in ahh and completely memorized by these men who I considered superheroes. After roping the SR71 off and the pilot and rco exited the plane the windows were covered by red panels so know one could look in. Remember this was the early 80's the SR71 and what it did was still classified and to get so close 10-15ft away was awesome to say the least! I will never forget the feeling of the SR71 at full afterburner flying by felt like in my chest and to hear and see it break the sound barrier and feel the double sonic boom was something I'll never forget! I was lucky to grow up and live close to Beale AFB and I was also very fortunate to have a dad that took me to the airshows at Beale AFB and allowed me to experience something most have never and now with the blackbird retired will never experience! Thank you dad I love you!

Super interesting!! Thankyou Sir for sharing your experience and interesting facts about an extraordinary machine. I've never been so moved by and interview particularly due to the unusual numbers and human performance. It's very apparent, even in this casual interview, that only AAA type personality were amongst the flowing heat aviators. It would be a great honour to meet you but of course for now it was an absolute pleasure. Thanks Rosy 👍

Thanks! Thumbs Up for making and sharing. I really did enjoyed it, so please take the following as a positive feedback. A good interview is when you can edit out all the interviewer. Let the interviewee talk. Especially when you can see them get excited and maybe get slightly off topic because this is often when the good stories begins. Nevertheless, getting an interview with Maury Rosenberg is a scoop. Well done! Thumbs up and subscribe!

I was hanging on every word AND taking notes!! You don't get this level of detail on discovery channel.... Well done!!!

AWESOME

i have so much respect fkr this guy. amazing.

Fascinating interview. There are also several SR-71 pilot interviews with Richard Graham that are equally as interesting, including a SR-71 "cockpit check-out".

Fantastic video.. BRAVO...! Thanks to LtCol Rosenburg for his time and service to our country... Thanks to the interview video crew.. Well Done...…

Thanks for the tip! Wish you all the best and thank you for this priceless interview!

really cool interview!

Amazing stories. What these guys did is fantastic

thanx "rosi" for this mach3 western moovie ! from a french aviation amateur - very intéresting + livy + fun

I had a great Corgi model of either this plane or the A 12 a LONG time ago. It is the prettiest plane ever built by far. It is the inspiration for the Batmobile! The fat red pin stripes and all.

Fascinating interview, indeed

Great interview Maury and wonderful to see you again. JoAnne Crary Dugger

Great video!! How cool must it have been to be an SR-71 pilot!!

This is amazing - thanks to you and Lt Col Rosenberg. The two anecdotes (if that's the right word for them) after 50:00 are especially entertaining.

you are amazing sir......i got to see the sr many times, i lived a few blocks away from plant 42 in palmdale in the 1980s. used to go coyote hunting between palmdale and victorville near lake los angeles. one day a sr came roaring right over my head, really really fast and really really low. by the time i felt it go by it was past me by a few seconds. i also saw the record run from {was it 1991?) here to wash dc in like 59 min. we would watch at the little corner on sierra hwy and ave m or o. great times

Great interview!

Maury, Great interview. Would love to see you again. Jeff

fantastic, best interview I've even watched. Tks so much!

Guys that's my dad!! :D

Thanks you for this!

Loved this!

Thanks Maury! Great video.

So awesome to hear your incredible story , My father in law Tom Huddy was a tech rep for the SR out of Beale , you probably knew him , I lived right next to Beale and remember when I first heard the sonic booms , scared the crap out of me until I learned what the boom was ,🙌🙌 Now I wish I could hear one again

awesome

Even at this age this guy looks and speaks extremely pro! No wonder these were highly selected, only the cream of the crop. Don't try to out drive, outfly or outsmart them cos you gonna fail big time!

Wow. Just wow.

Nice work

I had the privilege to set in the SR-71 pilot seat at Edwards Air Force Base 1997.

SR-71 (23:08) KING BIRD OF THE SKIES, (Perching)!

There is also an hour long interview with R. Graham(pilot) on youtube

this man knows his stuff

temp is not caused by friction. It is aerothermodynamic heating. It is from compression as the air is compressed ahead of the plane in motion. most people get this wrong. but friction (viscous dissipation) is very small.

I am interesting about flights from Okinawa during 1980-1990... Any recomendation about info sources? Non-classified, of course! ;)

Great stories but that interviewer is annoying at times!

You can try this book: Lockheed SR-71: The Secret Missions Exposed [Paperback] Paul Crickmore (Author)

There's a glitch just as he goes to answer your question about max fuel load. Do you happen to remember what the answer was?

The Aircraft is the most impressive aircraft that was ever built. It was I believe the last aircraft(real aircraft) that was built using a slide ruler not computers. However nothing wrong with comutes for calculations. I prefer real brain use. I like the slide ruler method.

Can someone explain why the SR -71 program was halted in 1992? Thanks so much

Mach 3.2 = 2,435 MPH = 3,572 FPS.

the interviewer was a little aggressive, but he got a lot of valuable technical information which could be used in the future, for example in creating simulations of the sr-71. i appreciated the detailed info he got because of the aggressive questioning.

with a damm good salary

88,000 was no where near the ceiling height try 130-140,000

Why would the ejection light come on if no one ejected from the aircraft? Seemed a bit odd to me that he wold say something about that.

Marta Bohn-Meyer

they had no Radar, and did not talk to ATC...how did they avoid other traffic ?

Love your story. Noticed The horizon is completely flat at those hieghts. The earth looks flat no curvature noted no fish -eye Len. How often did you have to adjust the direction of the plane going at mock2 to compensate for the 8"/mile squared curvature. Please RU-vid "The Global Lie " would like to see you inverse with with Mark Sargent. Thank you

Buddy, at the 19:00-minute mark, learn how to spell "prefer"!

This interviewer is awful! This great pilot deserves much better!

Cool story but the interviewer was rude

I don't think women flew them, (sadly) but I could be wrong, (Someone please say I am wrong!).

Legendary pilot, awful, rude interviewer.

Interviewer had the demeanor of a hack trial lawyer cross examining... Annoying AsF

the unstart return to okanowa storey is bs. he was day dreaming about his Japanese girl he wouldnt see fpr a wile.. and how the cater to there men! "mission controle we have issues... im comong back!

Marta Bohn-Meyer

the unstart return to okanowa storey is bs. he was day dreaming about his Japanese girl he wouldnt see fpr a wile.. and how the cater to there men! "mission controle we have issues... im comong back!