SR-71 Arrival at NASA Dryden FRC [Video] (1:54)

Well, no responses, and I'm not sure if it would be possible to judge the speed from the video, but it does look like a fairly slow pass to me as well. I'd guess that it was probably slow so that the crowd could get the most out of the burners lighting off. It reminds me of Brian Shul's English Air Cadets story.

As I noticed the airspeed indicator slide below 160 knots, my heart stopped and my adrenalin-filled left hand pushed two throttles full forward. At this point, we weren’t really flying, but were falling in a slight bank. Just at the moment that both afterburners lit with a thunderous roar of flame (and what a joyous feeling that was), the aircraft fell into full view of the shocked observers on the tower. Shattering the still quiet of that morning, they now had 107 feet of fire-breathing titanium in their face as the plane leveled and accelerated, in full burner, on the tower side of the infield, closer than expected, maintaining what could only be described as some sort of ultimate knife-edge pass.

I have stabilized the video for you: https://gfycat.com/IckyJampackedCuckoo

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