How fast was the Blackbird? oh yeah...that fast.
heh: Good joke: The King of Speed.
"Los Angeles Center, Aspen 20, can you give us a ground speed check?"
There was no hesitation, and the reply came as if was an everyday request:
"Aspen 20, I show you at one thousand eight hundred and forty-two knots, across the ground."
Gimme a second heh for that one