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$1,000,000?... I'll take 2! :smile: For a million bucks, I'd want more than a rudder. Take along your titanium tester.
 
I'd like to see the paperwork (mountain?) that traces ownership of that chunk of aircraft.

Some Blackbird photos (with and without the skunk):

SR-71 17955
 
Just rattled down thru the gallery of tail numbers, Tom, and didn't find the Playboy logo one. Can't recall the tail number but there was an Air Force "litho series" poster made of it, shot over Nellis with the customary desert background, 1971-ish. That series of posters was the first to actually credit the individual photogs instead of carrying the usual "USAF Photo" credit.

F-111 was the "photo chase" bird. :wink:

YEARS after all that one of the pilots settled in our area, we met thru the local Chamber of Commerce in the late '90's. Another of Horsemits' "Pumping Irony" scenarios.
 
Doc, or anyone not ads dense as me. The logo on the SR-71 tail is for the top secret "skunkworks" right?
I have a model of an F-14A Tomcat with the playboy bunny logo on the tail. What was that connected to?
 
There's photo of the SR-71 with the F4 "Black Bunny" carrying the Playboy logo. It's the photo located at the bottom (middle) of the page.
 
That's a Navy F-4, too. I'm referring to a photo of a Blackbird with that Playboy logo on it. Wish I could have kept some of those pix... :cry:
 
With Mr. Hefner's permission -

tail042.jpg
 
My recollection is that "bunny" was bigger.
 
If you want to see the bunny in person, that rudder's mate currently resides here in California at the March Field Air Museum in Riverside, mounted on airframe 975.

Airframe 978, a.k.a. <span style="font-style: italic">Rapid Rabbit</span>, proudly flew the bunny on missions but was damaged beyond repair in 1972 when its landing chute malfunctioned and it ran off the runway.

The crew was OK but the plane was history and was scavenged for parts, lending a rudder to 975.



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The Sr-71 was an incredible plane.How was it that the US made planes in
the '50's that are still on the "cutting edge"?

- Doug
 
I have not cleaned out my cache, but others say the item has been removed.
Dave
 
I just looked deeper. 93 offers declined or expired since July 2011. How long does an evilbait item stay up, anyway? Been almost a year, all offers rejected.

Odd.
 
I don't think he really has it. I searched more, the other items he has up for sale are lighted crochet hooks for $7 and change. BIG jump from $7 to $1M
 
TOC said:
I don't think he really has it. I searched more, the other items he has up for sale are lighted crochet hooks for $7 and change. BIG jump from $7 to $1M
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Well what else are you going to use to make a nice cover for that expensive tail fin?
 
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