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Airmen assist LTC Bob Crowder, from the 9th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing, put on his high-pressure suit. LTC Crowder will fly an SR-71 Blackbird aircraft which will be refueled by a KC-10 Extender aircraft during testing

Airmen assist LTC Bob Crowder, from the 9th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing, put on his high-pressure suit. LTC Crowder is a pilot of an SR-71 Blackbird aircraft which will be refueled by a KC-10 Extender aircraft in flight during testing

A view of an SR-71 Blackbird aircraft in flight. The aircraft, from the 9th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing, will be refueled by a KC-10 Extender aircraft during testing

Front view of an SR-71 Blackbird aircraft as airmen assist a pilot debarking the aircraft. The aircraft, from the 9th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing, was refueled by a KC-10 Extender aircraft in flight during testing

A view of an SR-71 Blackbird aircraft, from the 9th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing, taking off. The aircraft will be refueled by a KC-10 Extender aircraft in flight during testing

Front view of an SR-71 Blackbird aircraft, from the 9th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing, taxiing out of a hangar. The aircraft will be refueled by a KC-10 Extender aircraft in flight during testing

Pilots from the 9th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing sit in the cockpit of an SR-71 Blackbird aircraft prior to flight. The aircraft will be refueled by a KC-10 Extender aircraft while in flight during testing

Airmen assist pilots aboard an SR-71 Blackbird aircraft, from the 9th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing. The aircraft will be refueled by a KC-10 Extender aircraft in flight during testing

A view of an SR-71 Blackbird aircraft, from the 9th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing, taking off. The aircraft will be refueled by a KC-10 Extender aircraft in flight during testing

Airmen assist LTC Bob Crowder, from the 9th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing, put on his high-pressure suit. LTC Crowder will fly an SR-71 Blackbird aircraft which will be refueled by a KC-10 Extender aircraft during testing

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The original finding aid described this photograph as:

Base: Beale Air Force Base

State: California (CA)

Country: United States Of America (USA)

Scene Camera Operator: SSGT Bill Thompson

Release Status: Released to Public

Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

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02/08/1981
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label_outline Explore Sr 71 Blackbird Aircraft, Blackbird Aircraft, Crowder

Pilot MAJ Bob Aboe and co-pilot 1LT John Burda of the 2nd Airborne Command and Control Squadron, 55th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing, prepare for a flight in an EC-135C Stratolifter advanced airborne command post aircraft (AABNCP).

Secretary of the Air Force Sheila Widnall is suited up prior to her U-2 Dragonlady flight. STAFF SGT. Andrew McLean, an aerospace physiologist specialist, integrates the full pressure suit

SSGT Chuck Hensley of the 55th Organizational Maintenance Squadron services communications equipment in the battle staff compartment of an EC-135 Stratolifter "Looking Glass" aircraft of the 2nd Airborne Command and Control Squadron, 55th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing, prior to a mission. Named "Glory Trip 143GB," the mission will be the first remote launch of a silo-housed Minuteman III missile by an aircraft based at Offutt. The missile will be launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California

STS102-327-007 - STS-102 - Helms poses with their EMU suits in the middeck

Crew members aboard the salvage ship USS PRESERVER (ARS 8) assist a diver with his Mark 12 diving suit during recovery operations for the space shuttle Challenger

Airmen from 2nd Maintenance Group use an air manifold

Airmen assist LTC Bob Crowder, from the 9th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing, put on his high-pressure suit. LTC Crowder will fly an SR-71 Blackbird aircraft which will be refueled by a KC-10 Extender aircraft during testing

An air-to-air front view of an SR-71 strategic reconnaissance aircraft known as the "Blackbird."

Crowder, S J - Age [Blank], Year: [Blank] - Sixteenth Battalion, Infantry, A - L - Louisiana

US Navy (USN) Rear Admiral (lower half) (RDML) William D. Crowder (left), Commander Carrier Strike Group 9 (CSG-9), and USN Captain (CAPT) David Lausmann, CVN 72 Executive Officer, survey damage along the coast of Banda Aceh, Sumatra, Indonesia, from the O-10 level onboard the Nimitz Class Aircraft Carrier USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN (CVN 72). The Lincoln Carrier Strike Group (CSG) is currently operating in the Indian Ocean off the waters of Indonesia and Thailand in support of Tsunami Humanitarian Relief Efforts

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SSGT Steve Rasmussen, left, and TSGT Chuck Christie, both electronic maintenance technicians with the 6949th Electronic Security Squadron, monitor equipment at a systems maintenance station aboard a 55th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing RC-135 Stratolifter aircraft

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airmen ltc crowder ltc bob crowder strategic reconnaissance strategic reconnaissance suit ltc crowder sr blackbird aircraft blackbird aircraft extender extender aircraft california kc 10 extender sr 71 blackbird lieutenant colonel staff sergeant high resolution beale air force base sr 71 blackbird aircraft kc 10 extender aircraft ssgt bill thompson us air force usaf air force base us national archives