For reference, the 152-156 knots speeds were well below the plane's nose-up (180 knots) and takeoff (210 knots), according to the Flight Manual (https://www.sr-71.org/blackbird/manual/).
"A year later, Walter and I were having lunch in the Mildenhall Officer’s club, and overheard an officer talking to some cadets about an SR-71 fly-past that he had seen one day. Of course, by now the story included kids falling off the tower and screaming as the heat of the jet singed their eyebrows. Noticing our HABU patches, as we stood there with lunch trays in our hands, he asked us to verify to the cadets that such a thing had occurred. Walt just shook his head and said, “It was probably just a routine low approach; they’re pretty impressive in that plane.”"
My favorite story about the SR-71 is how the CIA set up front companies to buy titanium from the Soviets because the US didn’t have sufficient production capacity.
The whole article is just plagiarized from the book Sled Driver, by a Habu pilot. A fun read, but the whole site looks like click-bait titles and plagiarized content.
Then the HN link should point somewhere else and the HN date should have the book copyright date.
I don't object to anybody spreading Blackbird information, quite the opposite, I want young people to be exposed to the wonder which is the SR-71. Let every blog Google indexes repeat these stories. But when specifically mentioning them, the clickbait blogs should not be considered the canonical source.
Playing with fire.