<story><title>That Time an SR-71 Made an Emergency Landing in Norway</title><url>http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/that-time-an-sr-71-made-an-emergency-landing-in-norway-1765436508</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mikeash</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s funny how familiar this story is. I fly gliders and have landed in a few fields after being unable to make it back to the airport. There&amp;#x27;s the same desire to get back home if it&amp;#x27;s possible, and procedures drilled into you to make sure you don&amp;#x27;t push that too hard and get yourself killed. The alternate landing field is selected well in advance (although in my case, selected by eye some minutes before while I&amp;#x27;m higher up). After landing, there&amp;#x27;s the same call back to base to tell them what happened and note the time. (We always want to track flight times, so the landing time is required for record-keeping.) There&amp;#x27;s the meeting of and with luck making friends with the locals. There&amp;#x27;s waiting for the cavalry to appear with your support equipment and whisk you away.&lt;p&gt;Obviously, their situation was about a million times more complex and interesting, but it&amp;#x27;s neat to see this sort of commonality from one end of aviation to the other.</text></comment>
<story><title>That Time an SR-71 Made an Emergency Landing in Norway</title><url>http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/that-time-an-sr-71-made-an-emergency-landing-in-norway-1765436508</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Isamu</author><text>My favorite: &amp;quot;what is the slowest you ever flew?&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.planeandpilotmag.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;speed-is-life&amp;#x2F;#.Vuv56kX3bv4&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.planeandpilotmag.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;speed-is-life&amp;#x2F;#.Vuv5...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>