Map, left:   Murmansk, Russia and Bodø, Norway.  The time that an SR-71 made an emergency landing in Norway  —From Foxtrot Alpha (jalopnik)
. . .  THE EMERGENCY   After transiting Murmansk and while hooked up with the tankers during the fourth refueling, I saw a flicker of the Master Warning light.  
From our training and experience with the aircraft emergency checklists, we knew immediately that this required that we “land as soon as possible.”
Jay Reid announced the light at the same time that I saw it in my peripheral vision. I disconnected from the tanker’s boom and maneuvered back to the pre-contact position. Our indication was the illumination of the left-engine oil supply low-quantity red warning light. From our training and experience with the aircraft emergency checklists, we knew immediately that this required that we “land as soon as possible.”
The mandate to land immediately was borne out of long experience with malfunctions: the type which would crash the airplane if another single-system failed.
The natural tendency for military air crews is to complete the mission if humanly possible. To counter this inclination, the Wing Commander had designated certain emergencies sufficiently critical to require immediate landing. This was one of those emergencies.
Our mission planning and alternate airfield study had prepared us to know quickly where to fly if an emergency required immediate landing. Some military intelligence might limit our choice of a suitable landing field, depending on the political situation, and of course weather was always a major consideration.
Jay and I quickly agreed that recovery at the joint civilian/military air base at Bodø (pronounced: “Buddha”), located on the Norwegian coast a few miles above the Arctic Circle, was best. We were about 60 miles away.
THE ARRIVAL   We wasted no time notifying the tanker crews of our decision to land. They set up a holding pattern in international airspace to assist in refueling, or to be our radio­-relay if necessary. Their standing orders were to await our call to release them, presumably after our safe landing.
While Jay was transmitting our mandatory abort reports via high-frequency, long-range radio, I contacted Norwegian Approach Control. Our orders were not to broadcast that we were flying an SR-71, but rather give the general type as “U.S. Air Force Tactical,” which really meant nothing to a controller concerned about arranging for emergency equipment, and notifying proper authorities of our emergency condition.
My call sign was “Belmont 86” and my transmissions to approach control were something like this:
“Bodø Approach, Belmont 86, six-zero miles west, declaring an in-flight emergency, request straight-in approach to land on runway zero seven.”
“Belmont 86, say aircraft type, nature of emergency, souls-on-board, and fuel remaining.”
“Bodø Approach, Belmont 86, US Air Force Tactical, engine problem, 2 souls, zero plus four-five fuel-on-board.
“Belmont 86, say again aircraft type.”
“Bodø Approach, Belmont 86, US Air Force Tactical.”
“Belmont 86, I do not understand your aircraft type.”
“This is Belmont 86, we will land in approximately 10 minutes and I will deploy 3 drag parachutes: 2 small and one 40-foot chute. I will jettison all three on the runway. I don’t have time now to talk.”
We were cleared to land with nothing more said. We touched down at Bodø on August 13 at 1:12 p.m. Norwegian time after a total flight of 6.4 hours.
What kind of reception would the Norwegians give us and would the airplane be secure, especially considering that we had on-board highly classified images and electronic recordings from Murmansk?
When we were on short- final approach, tower controllers had no problem identifying our aircraft type, and immediately sent out notifications which, we learned later, included the local press.
What could we expect? What kind of reception would the Norwegians give us and would the airplane be secure, especially considering that we had on-board highly classified images and electronic recordings from Murmansk?
THE RECEPTION  I asked for and was given taxi directions to the Norwegian military ramp where I could see some friendly looking F-104s, the front-line NATO fighter aircraft. After I shutdown the engines and we opened our canopies, the first person to greet us was a Norwegian military pilot who said: “Welcome, do you know Bill Groninger?”
Bill Groninger was a fellow SR-71 pilot who was a USAF instructor pilot before he was chosen for the SR-71 program. The Norwegian pilot was his student. We learned that many Norwegian fighter pilots received their initial training in the USA. We definitely were among friends!   . . . 
 
 
JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW
 
Hour One
Friday  25 March 2016 / Hour 1, Block A: JimMcTague, Barron’s, in re:  The Fed is pumping up the economy with Monopoly money – funny money. When even a small amount is raised it contributes toward a bubble. We're at he sixth anniversary of the Affordable Care Act – and people who had to pay $90 now have to pay [$400?].  Also, see millennials’ leaving college and having to rent, not buy a house.  Campaign: both arties are speaking of tariffs, trade wars.  2017?  Expect a Pres Hillary Clinton. We've always been a country of Yankee Traders – disliked around the world but excellent businessmen. If Messer Trump of Cruz is elected, their proposed trade policies will blow up the economy.   http://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-fourth-quarter-gdp-revised-up-corporate-profits-fall-1458909252  The fourth quarter’s slowdown was less severe than previously estimated but corporate profits fell, showing the economy entered 2016 on uneven footing.
Friday  25 March 2016 / Hour 1, Block B:  Mona Charen, NRO, in re:  NeverTrump#   Need 1237delegates (not an arbitrary number).  Kasich’s campaign has been pretty disorganized, including submitting insufficient signatures.  The Trump campaign lives entirely on ad hominem; absent someone to attack, it doesn't have a point of view.  The nature of he attacks is so grammar-school – goes after Fiorina with vituperative comments on her face; it's never about policy – and almost always about women!  Mrs Cruz, Carly Fiorina, Megan Kelly of Fox.  On The Apprentice, spoke to a young woman in filthy language.  In the general election, his gender gap would be a chasm.  Trump’s campaign manager lept upon and physically attacked a woman reporter.  Trump praised him – two bully thugs relishing this bad conduct: the basic norms of civilized behavior apparently don’t apply here.   JB: “The only time I want to see orange is on an Easter egg.”  http://www.nationalreview.com/article/433232/ted-cruz-anti-donald-trump
Friday  25 March 2016 / Hour 1, Block C:  Dan Henninger,  Wall Street Journal editorial board, in re:  “I have come to bury the last remnants of the Cold War,” said Pres Obama as he laid a wreath to Jose Marti with a huge mural of Che Guevara large just behind him.  Che as it turns out was not so much a romantic revolutionary as a cold-blooded killer (see his memoires).    Mr Obama seems to think that he purpose of the Cold War was to strangle the Revolucion.    Note that the democratic left condemned US mil spending as wasteful – but then under Reagan the US won the Cold War.   . . .  “unbounded self-referencing.”   http://www.wsj.com/articles/antiterrorism-after-obama-1458775620
Friday  25 March 2016 / Hour 1, Block D:  John Fund, NRO, in re:   [hilarious segment; too dense to report; might as well listen]  http://www.nationalreview.com/article/433262/donald-trump-reagan-1980-an...
 
 
Hour Two
Friday  25 March 2016 / Hour 2, Block A:  Michael E Vlahos, Johns Hopkins University Global Security Studies, in re:  . . . A Moscow-Washington alliance?  See Mackinder’s [pron: MAK-in-derr] World Island.  A world without NATO?  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO (1 of 2)
Friday  25 March 2016 / Hour 2, Block B: Michael E Vlahos, Johns Hopkins University Global Security Studies, in re:  A Moscow-Washington alliance?   [pron: MAK-in-derr] World Island.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO  A world without NATO?   (2 of 2)
Friday  25 March 2016 / Hour 2, Block C:   Prof Cars Hommes, University of Amsterdam School of Economics [Holland], in re:  Complexity theory and financial regulation.  Summary: Traditional economic theory could not explain, much less predict, the near collapse of the financial system and its long-lasting effects on the global economy. Since the 2008 crisis, there has been increasing interest in using ideas from complexity theory to make sense of economic and financial markets. Concepts, such as tipping points, networks, contagion, feedback, and resilience have entered the financial and regulatory lexicon, but actual use of complexity models and results remains at an early stage. Recent insights and techniques offer potential for better monitoring and management of highly interconnected economic and financial systems and, thus, may help anticipate and manage future crises. (1 of 2)
Friday  25 March 2016 / Hour 2, Block D: Prof Cars Hommes, University of Amsterdam School of Economics [Holland], in re:  “Too central to fail” (too connected to fail). Collective moral hazard. Agent-based model; decision rules at the micro level to explain “emergent macro behavior.”  Weakening positive feedback. Build online dashboards. Policy scenario-analysis. Bubbles: coordination of trend-following behavior. Complexity theory and financial regulation.  Summary: Traditional economic theory could not explain, much less predict, the near collapse of the financial system and its long-lasting effects on the global economy. Since the 2008 crisis, there has been increasing interest in using ideas from complexity theory to make sense of economic and financial markets. Concepts, such as tipping points, networks, contagion, feedback, and resilience have entered the financial and regulatory lexicon, but actual use of complexity models and results remains at an early stage. Recent insights and techniques offer potential for better monitoring and management of highly interconnected economic and financial systems and, thus, may help anticipate and manage future crises.   ---"If we ever get out of this recovery!" (2 of 2)
 
Hour Three
Friday  25 March 2016 / Hour 3, Block A:  Dictator: A novel (Ancient Rome Trilogy), by Robert Harris (1 of 4)
Friday  25 March 2016 / Hour 3, Block B:  Dictator: A novel (Ancient Rome Trilogy), by Robert Harris (2 of 4)
Friday  25 March 2016 / Hour 3, Block C:  Dictator: A novel (Ancient Rome Trilogy), by Robert Harris (3 of 4)
Friday  25 March 2016 / Hour 3, Block D:  Dictator: A novel (Ancient Rome Trilogy), by Robert Harris (4 of 4)
 
Hour Four
Friday  25 March 2016 / Hour 4, Block A:  Robert Zimmerman, behind the black, in re:   TMT leadership looks at alternatives to Hawaii  Though they have refused to comment publicly, the Facebook page for the Thirty Meter Telescope on Monday showed the telescope’s management visiting the Canary Islands, a potential alternative site to Hawaii.
Their Facebook post serves two purposes. It shows that they mean business when they say they must start considering abandoning Hawaii. It also might force the Hawaiian state government to stop dragging its feet in the permitting process that protesters have forced TMT to go through, a second time.  Another Rosetta close-up of Comet 67P/C-G
Friday  25 March 2016 / Hour 4, Block B:  Robert Zimmerman, behind the black, in re:    Another Rosetta close-up of Comet 67P/C-G
Friday  25 March 2016 / Hour 4, Block C: Tyler Rogoway, Foxtrot Alpha, in re: The new cold war based on the experiences of the old cold war. New one: Syria, Ukraine, North Atlantic.  An SR-71, Lockheed spy plane could go to Mach 3 speed, still the fastest operational aircraft ever built; landed in Bodø, Norway, in 1971. See video of Bounty Hunters fighter squadron flying SuperHornets – produced by the flyers, not a Navy PR group.       http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/that-time-an-sr-71-made-an-emergency-landing-in-norway-1765436508
Friday  25 March 2016 / Hour 4, Block D:   Tyler Rogoway, Foxtrot Alpha, in re: Watch the Bounty Hunters and Their Super Hornets Project Power in the Southern Hemisphere  ;  Marine MV-22 Ospreys Become California's Last Line of Defense against Wildfires  ;  Take the Plunge into a Mock Assault on a Korean Beach from an Amphibious Vehicle's POV  ;  Watch These Two B-1B Lancers Roar over the U.S. Air Force Academy Recognition Ceremony