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A chase plane is an aircraft that “chases” a “subject” aircraft, spacecraft or rocket, for the purposes of making real-time observations and taking air-to-air photographs and video of the “subject aircraft”, during flight. When SR-71 Blackbird was in service Northrop T-38 Talon was its chase plane or T-38 to fly …

A U.S. Air Force T-38 Talon stationed at Vance Air Force Base crashed at approximately 1:48 p.m., 70 miles west of Enid, Oklahoma. At the time of the accident, the aircraft was performing a training mission. One instructor pilot was on board and safely ejected. The pilot is conscious, was …