2:05 "We had a couple of hundred missiles fired at us, and the closest one came within a mile." What? That's a lot of missiles fired at a US planes! And a pretty lost success rate. He explains that the planes speed, and it's radar-jamming capability foiled these attempts.
At 11:30 he describes "unstarts" where the supersonic shock wavefront was disturbed and moved outside the engine intake, dramatically dropping the thrust from that engine and making the plane lurch to one side violently. He says it did this over a hundred times in five years while he was flying it!
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