BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.2//EN TZID:America/Chicago X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Chicago BEGIN:VEVENT UID:94@ntinfragard.org DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210406T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210406T130000 DTSTAMP:20210309T194101Z URL:https://www.ntinfragard.org/events/sr-71-blackbird-pilot-presentation- webinar/ SUMMARY:SR-71 Blackbird Pilot Presentation Webinar DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a SR-71 Blackbird Pilot Presentation webinar on Tuesday\, April 6\, 2021 from 12pm to 1pm presented by Colonel (ret) R ichard Graham.  Please register for the event at: https://attendee.gotowe binar.com/register/6405691385269670671.  After registering\, you will rec eive an email confirmation with information about joining the webinar.  F eel free to share this event with people outside of our organization.\n\nT he world’s fastest and highest flying aircraft was conceived as early as 1958 by the renowned aircraft engineer\, Kelly Johnson. The gigantic leap in technology he and his engineers had to overcome at the Lockheed “Sku nk Works” was phenomenal. Built in total secrecy\, the first Blackbird f lew on April 26\, 1962. The Blackbird’s only purpose was to gather highl y classified intelligence on hostile countries around the world. Flying at Mach 3+ speeds and cruising at over 85\,000 feet\, the SR-71 could survey over 100\,000 square miles every hour\, gathering millions of bits of int elligence. When cruising at over 2\,200 mph\, with skin friction temperatu res reaching 600 degrees F.\, the SR-71 performed at its very best.\n\n&nb sp\;\n\nThis presentation links the world of engineering with aviation and gives the audience a much deeper appreciation of just how far “outside the box” Kelly Johnson had to think.  The Q&\;A session at the end o f this program gives the audience an opportunity to ask questions about th e once highly classified program.\n\n \;\n\nAbout our speaker:\n\nColo nel (ret) Richard Graham has written five books on the SR-71 Blackbird pro gram. A veteran of 15 years of assignments within the SR-71 community\, he is uniquely qualified to tell the SR-71 story. Colonel Graham was the 199 9 recipient of the University of Nebraska’s William F. Shea Award for hi s distinguished contribution to aviation. In 2005\, the Blackbird Associat ion awarded him the Kelly Johnson trophy\, a lifetime achievement award fo r his work to perpetuate\, foster and improve the SR-71. In 2013 he receiv ed the Congressional Veterans Commendation Award from Congressman Sam John son. He was a Distinguished Lecturer for the American Institute of Aeronau tics and Astronautics (AIAA). He serves on the Leadership Council at the F rontiers of Flight Museum in Dallas and on the International Advisory Boar d of Directors at the Flight of the Phoenix Aviation Museum in Gilmer\, Te xas. He was awarded the FAA Wright Brothers Master Pilot Award from the FA A for over 50 years of safe flying. CATEGORIES:Meetings END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20210314T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR