SR 71 Blackbird last flight ever.Edwards AFB open house 1999. 

God created man... Man created SR-71 God said...now you're just showing off...

This was on every young boy's wall in the 80s. I just wish I could have seen her fly in person.

I left Edwards right after this flight. It was amazing to be stationed there (my dad was before my military career) in the mid to late 90s. F117s, SR71s, yf22s, c17s, c5s, the shuttle landings. Didn't realize how lucky I was at the time.

Oh man! I was at that show. Remember it like it was yesterday. Had the privilege to see her fly at 2 different shows.

Ah, the car alarms, definitely a 90's thing. Think I can still recall the "song" pattern they played.

I was here (Edwards) for this flight. it was so weird that at the end of the show, very few people came by to check it out close up. Everyone wanted to stare at the Wobbly Goblin instead...go figure. An airman told me it cost about $150, 000 /hour to fly Habu , between the special fuel and crews to work on it. very few were left. The most beautiful shape ever created in aviation.

That Beauty was born in the 60'. Imagine what's made at the Skunk Works today.

Dang satellites put her out of business... such a shame.. my most favorite 'thing' about the SR-71 was the so called 'performance' flight from Los Angeles to New York... took a whole 64 minutes!

I'm friends with Buddy Brown who lives in Knoxville, Tennessee. He flew this bird for several years and boy does he have stories to tell. Thanks for sharing!

I was there Saturday, too. I will never forget the SPEED of the contrail (fuel) as it passed overhead. Utterly amazing! I remember hearing that it might be the last flights ever. Saturday was the only day I could go, so I went by myself just to see it happen. Only went out to the airshow just to see the SR fly. When I found out that they couldn't fly Sunday, I was pretty sure I witnessed history too. Thanks for the Post!

The sound in this video gives me chills, I can't imagine how incredible it would be in person

I grew up living right next to Mildenhall airbase where they were stationed. it was such a privilege to see this plane all the time.

It's the most beautiful aircraft ever made bar none!!

I went to an air show back in the early 90s in Lancaster, CA. The SR-71 is still the loudest takeoff I have ever seen on the ground, and they did a flyby which was even louder!!!!

WOW!! This brings back so many good memories from my childhood while growing up at Edwards A.F.B. My dad worked on the fuel lines of the SR-71. I wouldn't trade the experience of growing up around this for anything!! Badass!!

The SR71 Blackbird will always be my favorite aircraft. Such a beautiful jet

Made with slide rulers and educated guesses!! ;-)

I was lucky enough to see the blackbird fly at Norton AFB air show every year growing up in the late 80's and early 90's. I think my favorite part was, at the end of its flight, it would go into a vertical climb, out of site, and head to wherever it was going. This video brought back all those wonderful memories, and a lot of emotions. I wish I could give my kids the same memories of the blackbird that my dad gave me.

I was there !!! It was awesome to see. I never knew it until this day that I was seeing history in the making of the last flight of this amazing flying machine. Just absolutely incredible memories. The crowd was so jazzed to film this take off and do fly bys and then climb to an incredible altitude at way beyond mach speed and then come back for the final landing of any SR-71 in history. Wow, I was part of it.

I was there on that day. It was the reason I was there. Was and always will be my favorite Stealth Fighter Jet. I broke down in tears over it's beauty and power. To see it fly in person was an amazing experience. This video took me back to that day and I just sat here again with tears in my eyes. Thank you for posting this video.

I wish I could have seen this happen in person. Unfortunately, the only time I have ever seen an SR-71 was in Dayton, Ohio just two months ago. Just seeing her brought me to tears. I have loved the Blackbird since I was a little kid and always wanted to see one. Thank you for sharing this video. Truly amazing.

Thanks, this beings back memories 🇺🇲. The best of the best.

This show spoiled me for any other airshow, ever. 9AM: sonic boom! Bunch of other stuff, then, SR-71 demo. Later, the sky was seemingly blackened by hordes of AF and NASA jets doing a fly-past. Then, the AF Thunderbirds. At one point they played the music from the Right Stuff, just to remind you that it all started right there. Amazing! Nicely done video, excellent camera work. This should have way more views!

I never hear car alarms anymore. I used to hear them ALL THE TIME in the 90's. Damn black birds flying over the sky!

I was 12 and standing there somewhere. Thunderbirds had a great show that day too if I remember correctly!

my neighbor had 27 airplanes growing up where i lived at in the country in Ohio, hes the one that got me interested in airplanes but i dont have the eyes for it even at 25 years old, hopefully one day man, saw this beauty at WP in Dayton last year. the air force museum is something every Ohioan should visit.

I saw a SR-71 flyover at Tucson Air Show, Davis-Monthan AFB; most beautiful flying machine ever created!!!🤩😍🥰🥰🥰

Is it normal to shed tears and feel exhilaration when seeing her magnificently fly by?

thanks, some steady camerawork you have there. I finally got to walk around one at P'cola a few years back, a man and his family were watching me, alone, and said, "I know you want your picture taken next to this, give me your camera!" He patiently waited for me to stand in certain spots. What a beautiful aircraft, built the model as an Infantry soldier in the 80s, can't get enough of it to this day.

I maintained the Ejection systems on these fantastic A/C went in the Airforce 1967 was Honorable Discharged 1975. This was and still is the Greatest aircraft ever built in Modern History.

I was born too late for this epic moment in aviation history

Incredible jet! My favorite and the greatest ever. So glad I got to see it fly in person.

I'm a local born and raised here in the Antelope Valley aka AV or Aerospace Valley, I was here at this airshow on the Saturday it flew i still remember the double sonic boom, it sounded close to the shuttles booms also if i remember right there was no charge for admission and no parking charges either for the public. I'm sad but super glad my parents took me and my sister to this specific year airshow at Edward's.

I love at the start after wheels up where the F/A-18 spot follows right behind Big Daddy. It reminds me of a little duckling following closely behind its much larger parent as they venture out into the world for the day.

We in the UK were lucky enough to have 2 SR-71’s stationed at RAF Mildenhall with the 4th Detachment of the 9th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing from Beale AFB in California,I saw it a few times display at the yearly Air Fete at Mildenhall,Great memories of a unique aircraft.

I was stationed at Edwards AFB from October 1992 till January 1994. My first duty station and I got to see the SR-71, F117, B1, B2, X-31, X-29, C-17, C5, YF22, and the YF23 fly. I thought that was normal as an 18 year old kid.

last scene was like a puppy following its master

I saw the SR-71 doing it's ridiculous straight up, full burner take off at Norton AFB. We lived on a hill about 6 miles LOS to the runway. The windows in our house shook. Being an AF brat, I've seen a ton of loud planes...but nothing like that.

At the time of filming, this ‘bird is ~ 40 years old. Absolutely incredible.

I saw Concorde's last flight and landing. Watching an aeroplane's last flight is poignant. The Blackbird was an amazing plane.

Hi, glad you like. I thought this historic moment had to be made from take-off to landing. Was a priviledge to have been there.

Thank you for taking me down memory lane. I remember being a kid at that airshow that day and watching this. Coolest part of living in the Antelope Valley as a kid was all the aircraft flying.

Thank you for posting this the SR-71 was and always will be my favorite aircraft. I finally saw her last January at the air and space museum outside Dulles.

I was here for this. it was a sad moment. Later, when it was parked , I was looking at it. it was still warm, still dripping fuel and I was irritated that very few people were viewing it. For some dumb reason they were more interested in the F-117A, which has done nothing comparable and is already retired.

My father was stationed at Edwards AFB I had the time of my life walking the flight line with my father, growing up as a young man. Flash forward my mom and sister went with me to the airshow to see the final flight of the SR- 71 . Little did I relise that was the last time we had a road trip together as a family. Sadly both my mom and sister passed away I am the last one standing in the Phillips family! God speed to you both in your Journey home thank you your son an brother Scott Phillips.

its like telling a teenager to come inside forever

Thanks for the video. I use to watch the SR 71 in okinawa 87-88

Saw this in person. So cool.

"The SR71 was meant to fly on the Sunday as well but a massive fuel leak from the jet was to stop that. So from October the 9th 1999 she never flew again." That's just what they told you. That thing pissed fuel out of the fuel cells while taxiing. ;)

You know the engines are loud when they're setting off car alarms. Thanks for uploading!

I seen the SR-71 fly over Norton AFB were i was station there in the 1980's. It came in one day before the open house and did a high speed fly by and set off about every car alarm on base and off. Loved it. To bad it's not flying anymore . It was a sight to see and hear.

Watched these many times on Okinawa at Kadena AFB from 1970-1973 right on the flight line! Best planes ever!

The SR-71, F4 PHANTOM and the F14 TOMCAT ARE GREATLY MISSED

I was there when I was about 3 years old. I saw the sr -71 take off racing an f-16 thunder bird. I’m 25 now and still it’s one of my greatest memories

I was there too. I also got to see Chuck Yeager the year before, if I'm not mistaken.

Thanks for sharing this. I have been facinated by the Blackbird from a young age, I had pictures of it on my bedroom walls. I have never seen it fly, but saw it recently standing in the American hangar at the Duxford museum (Cambridge, UK).

I want to say it was in 1986 or 87 was in boy scouts and we got to take a field trip to Beale AFB where the HABU main station was at. We were lucky enough to watch a takeoff of a mission. The amount of planning that had to go into was amazing, we got our own mini briefing as obviously we couldn't be in the actual briefing. How many tankers? When, where etc. The most awesome part was after takeoff we were escorted to the main tower and got to hear some of the communication. Climbing thru ** altitude etc. The plane was flying North and was getting prepared to enter Canadian air space. After about 30 minutes in the tower, we were quietly but quickly escorted out. Everyone was in amazement. I looked at everyone and said you know where that guy is going right? A bunch of 12- 13 year olds were like huh? I said that sucker is going on a mission over the Soviet Union somewhere. This was around 10 am in the morning. Later that evening around 6:30, we were treated to the plane coming back in for landing. Numerous T-38 launches went up to help pace the airplane. Was pretty awesome! Imagine that? 8.6 hours logged, Northern U.S., Canada, Alaska, and Eastern Russia. In one day.

That God damn car alarm took me back!!! Kids will NEVER know and remember each pattern.

It will forever be the most beautiful and coolest looking aircraft ever made.

I got to experience this past flight. I got to see it when I was 5 years old. It was a awesome sight

What I would of done to be there at Edwards AFB for this beautiful time in Aviation history!!!!!

Amazing!! Thank you so much!

In the late 1970s into the 1980s I worked for an aircraft company which produced parts for the SR-71. Some of the parts came across my bench, those were special years and great memories.

You should have heard the booms off the Shuttle on final return over Orlando. They literally shook the windows and doors, and you could hear them reverberating off houses for several seconds afterward. Woke me from sleep, confused, more than once when I wasn't paying attention to the landing date/time. The coolest Shuttle launch I ever saw was at the Cape, also, and was just before dawn, so it climbed from dark to light, beautiful. The other that was quite beautiful was a post sunset SpaceX booster return flight, seen from the house, after sunset. You could see all the pulses radiate out in concentric circles off of the RCS when turning the boosters, etc. It is absolutely gorgeous. There are vids on YT of such launches, but seeing it in person is different. I went over and saw the Artemis from about 12 distance miles recently. Almost beyond belief. I remember seeing a Sat V launch from a bit closer than that, but I didn't remember what I saw and heard that night, an absolute thrill...and yes in your chest, in the ground, all of that. My wife was standing across the street and I had to raise my voice considerably to be heard. I came home and tried to reproduce the low end from my 15" Velodyne servo sub on one of the close NASA vids, and you can do the body part, but DEFINITELY not the moving Earth portion, and it will literally end an incandescent wall sconce bulb about five feet away if you want to. If you don't live close and are ever going to watch a launch I recommend that one, or Starship if it ever gets there. Plan a few days though, they don't always go off when intended. SpaceX is getting very good at that with their standard flights, but I expect Starship, first flight, may not go that smoothly. I went over twice to see Artemis, and turned around just before the coast the first time. Very cool that you got to see this. I know I've seen static displays on airfields, and I know I saw the TR2 fly once, and I think I remember seeing a 71 take off or land once at an airshow, but I'm not sure about that one, might have dreamed it. It probably would have been at Patrick AFB, that is where I saw the TR2 (U2 derivative). Seeing the top speed pass would have been cool. :-) I saw the F22 fly at Sun N Fun once, and it was spectacular. I'd like to see an F35 demo, and they had one a few years back but I missed it. Haven't looked since, I need to do that. On the bucket list. Thx for posting the vid.

Severe fuel leak? Werent they made with a fuel leak design because of how much it expands during high speeds?

Mach 3.2 at 78K. This plane has fascinated me my whole life.

Wow awesome video. Thanks for putting this on here

Edwards. Where greatness goes to die. R. I. P. Edwards. Where greatness is reborn over and over. Edwards. Old place with the same face.

I was there,,,the most impressive thing I seen was when it came by with only the power of one motor,,it was awesome,,and the SR 71 is the loudest thing I ever heard in my Life,,,

A thing of absolute beauty and sheer awe.

As soon as it landed made the world cry knowing he’s retired No sr-71 will ever fly again

I was there. I was 12, but I was there, and I remember this awe inspiring aircraft.

Being a kid and having your dad working for and on the sr71 when I was 9 years old was so cool. Nobody really knew about it in the 60's, especially when we went to Okinawa Japan when I was 9 years old.

I worked right behind Beale Air Force Base flight line in the 90's, we would hear her way before we saw her when she was coming and going, Beautiful bird! went to many air shows at Beale and got to see her up close.

Sr 71, and a B1 lancer, I wish i was there

I went to an air show at the Charleston Air Force base in South Carolina back in the day, and got to see this plane sitting on the ground! I was BLOWN AWAY at it's beauty!!😳😛

I had the fortune of attending a lecture given by Col “Ed” Yeilding, the pilot in command of this flight, as a college student. Fantastic man, and an incredible presentation- love this airplane.

Not many people know that she was intended to be the Lockheed YF-12. The SR-71 prototype was intended to be an interceptor aircraft. There were three types. The YF-12A , was a pre-production version. They built 3 of them. The F-12B which was a production version of the A model, however it was canceled before production started. Then the YF-12C which was a bogus designation provided to NASA for flight testing. The YF-12C was used to prevent information of the SR-71 reaching the general public.

At 70 I would give up 30 years to fly her again!

Never seen the sr-71 in person....always heard the sonic booms as a teenager when ever the plane flew over phoenix,😎👍

Thats cool. I was there thst day, im so glad to have seen its last flight.

What a thing of beauty!

Was born 1 year too late to ever see one in the air. So sad. 80s and 90s must have been great to grow up in.

I remember that day!!! I was 29 with my dad. The good ole days-----✈

Such greatness in a plane, I thank you for sharing this, I think out of retirement, air shows, The SR would be golden, people would love to see this plane fly again, I saw it once when I was a child, yeah the sonic boom was awesome, mach speed, it's something to see.

I was there the day the SR 71 didn't fly because of fuel leaks. Still hugely disappointed to this day I didn't get to see my favorite airplane fly! The main reason for going was to see the last flight!

I was 13 years old with my dad and my brother here that very day was the last day that the SR-71 whatever fly and right now in 2021 still remember the Thunder those particular engine Domaine that no other aircraft ever could duplicate

Very sad to witness the last time the SR-71 tasted the freedom of flight...

Wow, you witnessed one incredible airshow. I really hope they restore one or two Blackbirds to operational status for airshow touring purposes one day. Probably really expensive though.

I was there. These were the good old days

Kelly Johnson and Lockheed, I salute you. I think it was wrong to completely ground these magnificent machines. There is something way wrong with the United States now. I hate it.

AWESEOME. It was a very sad day in history when this took place and had to take place. The over all engineering to make this plane come to life and keep it going for as long as it could - is probably some of the best all time.

I was there the next day, only to dicover there were fuel leak issues. Glad I saw a couple of flights in my life.

I used to have a model of this baby wished i knew what happened to it those models are hard to find now they were unique & totally ahead of their time no one will ever see another plane as incredible as the SR-71 blackbird they are what we mean by awesome.

imagine finding this is the biggest event in your birthday

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One of these flew over my home town back in Virginia many years ago and shook the ground with the sonic boom. I remember the windows rattled on the house too. The newspaper reported that it was a SR-71 that flew over us.

SR-17, B2, and F117. My 3 favorites ever

I only had a chance to see it fly once in my life, and I will never forget it.

Hasn’t flown in over 20 years and is still that fastest