How a Habu Driver Incredibly Managed to Save His Doomed SR-71

Dario Leone

History, Americas

Impressive.

Pugh was born on Sep. 30, 1935 and after having flown the B-47 and the B-52, was selected for the SR-71 program and was transferred to the 9th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing (SRW) in 1969.

The Blackbird pilot you see in the main image of this article is Colonel Thomas S. Pugh who with over 900 hours has been one of the high time SR-71 drivers.