Ep 36. LtCol Peters - SR-71 Pilot

Born in 1942, David Peters started his Air Force career flying F-4's doing 3 tours in Vietnam in '67, '68, and '69.  Afterwords, he instructed on the T-38 and in 1974 he found his way into the SR-71 program whereby 1977 he found himself in Japan flying missions over the Korean DMZ and the Chinese coast.  Dave talks about the cold war mentality and the main mission of a jet that flies at 85,000 feet at Mach 3+.  Dave talks about a few mission stories and being able to see the curvature of the earth as well as some technical stuff about the aircraft.  He retired in 1986 and went on to fly for American Airlines