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It's the best ever
Sep 29, 2017 12:25 AM
TarekHawk
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It's the best ever
fatabur
Saw one at a museum in Duxford last weekend, a pilot entertained us with some of the details on the aircraft.
Kmac44
Ben1045
Outran a missile by going more than mach 3.5 over Libya.
Danger1Zone
Singing in the dead of night....
FreeFloatingFullTorsoVaporousApparition
The SR would leak fluids while on the ground because at high speed the air friction would cause the alloy to expand sealing any leaks.
OtterlyMagnificent
Yes, leak...that's the right word for dumping hundreds of gallons of fuel while getting down the runway...
trailhounds5772
No digital computers, just analog for design and flight!
mfats123
The SR-71 had a navigation system that worked by locking on to stars in the sky and using them as a map...
Jumblium
As advanced as it was it still used twin ICE to start the jet engines. Originally 2 Nail Valve Buick 425 cid then twin 454 Chevy Big Blocks
HypocriticalBastard
To escape incoming rockets, all they need to do is accelerate
JazzandRain
Tag abuse much?
howitzer1c
Apparently the engines were so powerful that they were never maxed out in flight. The plane would break apart well before.
spiderqueendemon
The Science Museum of Richmond in Virginia has one parked indoors. Which is not how I would have expected them to display such a big plane.
GdebMueller
Favorite jet of mine. Just so badass. Basically says come at me bro. Then says that all you got? Buh bye
atleastyoucansayyoutried
TR-3b tho
ButtholeIceCreamParlor
X men?
TamaGrave
Saw the single seater in mobile AL at the battleship memorial park. Curator was excited to tell us (what he could) about that ex-cia beast
crushrollandspreadlove
The body is designed in such a way that all radio waves get reflected into space and I don't know what I'm talking about.
DavidBrooker
There was some very basic work trying to reduce its RCS, but real stealth wasn't possible prior to the seminal paper "Method of edge 1/2
DavidBrooker
waves in the physical theory diffraction" by Petr Ufimtsev, published long after SR-71 development had already matured. 2/2
th0rnicate
Recently blackbird design plans were analyzed by a program used to optimize engineering. It couldn't come up with further improvements.
TiGRIOSindustriesRnD
How to show up fashionably late for the mutant uprising.
FlatHatJack
Some one read my christmas list.
Vaultmaster34
Nice
SpeckBacon
Its on Alucards Chrismas list
Troybeam
Need to bring this back in service and out of museums.
YangKoete
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZScVFtKa-f8
zzzdfield
Skunk works
PrivateIsotope
When do we leave?
HellHawXOmega
Blackbird defensive flying 101: just go fast, like reeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaallly fast
OtterlyMagnificent
Missile Lock, ok, open it up another notch.
cosinewave
One of the most amazing engineering achievements of the 20th century.
EarthAnimalArmy
it was so fast, it was more dangerous to itself than the enemy
cosinewave
Yep, a little too much AOA and it would break apart in the middle.
OtterlyMagnificent
Still the fastest.
scuba7jb
Useless factlet: The SR71 is the famous 2 seat version but the A-12 Oxcart is a single seat version that flew faster and higher...
KimberCDPII
There's one next to the USS Alabama in Mobile if you want to see it up close.
somestrangeryoudontknow
Have you posted this before?? It's rings a bell
scuba7jb
Here's the source -- http://www.migflug.com/jetflights/a-12_oxcart-vs-sr-71_blackbird.html
fpierce1997
Thank you for sharing. I read the air force plans to revive the program with an updated platform.
ballsohard2202
The SR-71 is superior imo. It can go farther. At 85k ft and 2k mph nothing is hitting you anyways.
bryanew710
The A-12 never flew for the USAF. All of them were assigned to the CIA.
CertifiedMemeGuy
inagoddadavida
Shhhhh
kevinallover
To be fair, CIA > USAF (disregard. Trying to gain trust in other to get off some lists).
bryanew710
The CIA also flew early U2 flights.
ZAPZAPMOTHAFUCKA
You never get off their list. (Hi George!)
shimmernshine
Didn't NASA get a couple?
bryanew710
They had two YF-12's, at least.
sometimesifeellikeanut
“Los Angeles Center, Aspen 20, can you give us a ground speed check?”
Frankinbeijing
http://oppositelock.kinja.com/favorite-sr-71-story-1079127041
AtsaMattaForYou
Aspen 20, I show you at one thousand eight hundred and forty-two knots, across the ground.
smilingwolf80
https://www.strategypage.com/humor/articles/funny_flight_stories.asp second story
ARealSpicyCurry
Toohastybyfar
Thank you!
ChloeRed
better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lg73GKm7GgI
th0rnicate
Still the best story I've read on imgur.
ChloeRed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lg73GKm7GgI makes it better...
th0rnicate
thank you.