This is the crest patch created for the SR-71 that says “HABU”. When the SR-71 were first flown to their new remote base at Kadena AFB in Okinawa, the local people thought that this strange and somewhat wicked-looking airplane was shaped like the habu snake.Ê They started calling it the habu airplane, and later just habu.Ê Crews who flew the airplane were also called Habu, and the name came to be recognized with the blackbird program and even incorporated into the insignia worn by the crews on their uniforms.
