With the closing of the SR-71 program in 1990, some
SRs where flown to museums through out the
US. An insignia company, A.I.R. made-up and sold
patches commemorating these seven flights.
They've done a nice job on them, you'll notice that they include the
Pilot and RSO,the tail number
of the aircraft flown and the date of the flight
Notes on
these patches:
The March 6, 1990 Record flight of 972,
with Ed Yeilding and J. T. Vida, actually left from Palmdale, CA,
not Beale AFB, CA. The Dulles and Lackland flight where done on the same
day!
Also, A.I.R. didn't originally do one for the Beale to March flight, though
they corrected this in 1994|
Sadly these are out of production, and the
patches are not available!
