in- ‘into’ + spirare ‘breathe’

ab. 1893 Walking dress by Madeleine Laferrière

silk, cotton

Raw power and courage

My favorite SR-71 picture and I’ve seen thousands.

This is the backstory

The photographer was Lt Col Bill Flanagan, taken from our SR-71 Flight Test T-38 chase plane #10363. Lt Col Tom Tilden was the T-38 pilot. was the SR-71 pilot and my RSO was Lt Col JT Vida.

The takeoff was from Air Force Plant 42 at Palmdale, CA, around 1986, with Palmdale in the background.

Note the two small Mach diamond reflections, lower left, in the canopy of the T-38. The aircraft was #972, the SR-71 which graces the entrance to the Udvar-Hazy Center of the National Air and Space Museum at Dulles International Airport, and the aircraft which holds the world’s speed record coast-to-coast (Lt Cols Ed Yeilding and JT Vida crew).

Linda Sheffield

All 18 Bill Sienkiewicz New Mutants Covers / The New Mutants V1 018 - 031, 052 / The New Mutants Annual 01 / New Mutants V3 030 / The New Mutants: War Children / Artist: Bill Sienkiewicz