In the summer of 1976 I was sitting in the living room of a (then) San
Diego-based air traffic controller. A few years earlier he had been working
the approach control facility that handled Edwards. He was waiting for an
SR-71 to be handed off from LA Center for return to Edwards. He heard
the -71 call LA for clearance to FL600 (60,000 feet). LA, not knowing what
he was working, told him that if he could get up there, he could have it.
Supposedly the -71 replied to LA, "Roger, out of a hundred for sixty."
Silence from LA Center. Laughter at Edwards Approach. True? Who knows,
but it makes a great story.
Mike Nott
LCDR, USN (Ret)
Orlando, FL
> Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 10:12:49 -0400
> From: "Esler, Joel" <joel.esler@us.army.mil>
> Subject: RE: DML: SR-71 Aircraft
>
> But the original name was NOT SR-71... A pat on the back to the original
> name of the redesignation (between A-12 and SR-71....
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