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Eagle bait: There was a friendly, sometimes not-so-friendly competition between fighter pilots and SR-71 pilots. The fighter pilots didn’t like it at ALL that their airplane was not as fast as the reconnaissance airplane the SR 71. Fighter pilots would never join the SAC branch of the Air Force. They were bombers.  Fighters were in another category.  It was not until Colonel Jerry O’Malley was Wing Commander from 1972 to 73 fighter pilots were allowed to apply for a position in an SR 71. Colonel O’Malley while flying combat missions in Vietnam, earned a lot of respect from the fighter pilots.  Colonel O’Malley was usually right about everything. The SR 71 program continued to get stronger and stronger as time went on and there were no accidents between the time period of 1972 and 1989. These men were competitive and there’s nothing wrong with that  SR-71 pilot Dave Peters adds some interesting and hilarious details. ‘One of the interesting discoveries from those missions, especially the Eagle Bait, was that they couldn’t even find us when everything was shut down (Radar jamming)and we told them exactly where we were. It was then realized that the F-15 had a speed gate on its radar at 1500 kts. The SR-71 was casually warping along from 1850 to 2000. So, for them, we didn’t exist. THEY Couldn’t SEE THE SR! We flew them fairly regularly from about 82 and they were still doing them after I retired in 86. We flew the Eagle Bait with the F-15s and Tomcat Chase with the F-14s. The 14s could find us but they couldn’t do anything until we modified and gave them times, route of flight, speed, and altitude beforehand so they could have a pre-planned setup. The 15s didn’t do that well for quite some time. Another mission we flew that was interesting was to come in over the California coast at speed and altitude to give the air traffic controllers an idea of what they would see on a space shuttle approach. ‘There was some animosity at first with both the Eagles and the Tomcats because they kept accusing us of not showing up. Because we were on the same frequency with them and could listen to all the bitching because we didn’t show up. They got a little huffy because nobody told them we weren’t coming.’ But of course, the SR-71s were there they just couldn’t see them. Thank you to Dave Peters SR 71 pilot. Linda Sheffield

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