Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird
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My spidey-sense was going ape-shit!!!
Well done to the presenter for owning up. Learnt a few new things, too.
Haven't seen an SR71 since the air show in the late 80's at RAF Mildenhall
Well done to the presenter for owning up. Learnt a few new things, too.
Haven't seen an SR71 since the air show in the late 80's at RAF Mildenhall
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Any news on the next one; supposedly doing Mach 7?
Ever-lasting truths: Multi-year budgets/ planning by necessity have to address the painful questions; more often than not the Either-Or prevails over Both-And.
If everyone is thinking the same, then someone is not thinking (attributed to Patton)
If everyone is thinking the same, then someone is not thinking (attributed to Patton)
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Good Video never seen one for real and learned a lot from the presenter. Have been up close to the F117 and U2 during the Gulf War.
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Turn radius! (only now had the time to watch the vid)
- cant do recce without violating just about everyone's airspace
- cant do recce without violating just about everyone's airspace
Ever-lasting truths: Multi-year budgets/ planning by necessity have to address the painful questions; more often than not the Either-Or prevails over Both-And.
If everyone is thinking the same, then someone is not thinking (attributed to Patton)
If everyone is thinking the same, then someone is not thinking (attributed to Patton)
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Jealous! I've only seen one the late 90's across the tarmac in a restricted ANG area.arfah wrote: Haven't seen an SR71 since the air show in the late 80's at RAF Mildenhall
Quite impressive design from the slide-rule generation. Interesting about the G loading.
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Agreed. Imagine Mach 6-7 "turning". We need a bigger planetArmChairCivvy wrote:Turn radius! (only now had the time to watch the vid)
- cant do recce without violating just about everyone's airspace
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It was about what they could carry (over and above the structure of the airplane and the quite evenly distributed fuel)... and it wasnt much (missed the exact metrics).GastonGlocker wrote:Interesting about the G loading
Ever-lasting truths: Multi-year budgets/ planning by necessity have to address the painful questions; more often than not the Either-Or prevails over Both-And.
If everyone is thinking the same, then someone is not thinking (attributed to Patton)
If everyone is thinking the same, then someone is not thinking (attributed to Patton)
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Sea-basing will have expanded into moon basing by then?GastonGlocker wrote:We need a bigger planet
Ever-lasting truths: Multi-year budgets/ planning by necessity have to address the painful questions; more often than not the Either-Or prevails over Both-And.
If everyone is thinking the same, then someone is not thinking (attributed to Patton)
If everyone is thinking the same, then someone is not thinking (attributed to Patton)
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They've got one at Duxford, it's one of many plane's I could just spend the whole day standing and looking at.
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Finally got to see one up close at the Pima Air & Space museum in AZ. Very interesting to say the least. If you can get up close, it puts things into perspective rather nicely.
More interesting info from a driver:
If you are ever in AZ - check this place out and prepare for several hours/couple days to view everything in detail:
http://www.pimaair.org/
More interesting info from a driver:
If you are ever in AZ - check this place out and prepare for several hours/couple days to view everything in detail:
http://www.pimaair.org/
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There was something between U-2 and SR-71, not widely known:
Ever-lasting truths: Multi-year budgets/ planning by necessity have to address the painful questions; more often than not the Either-Or prevails over Both-And.
If everyone is thinking the same, then someone is not thinking (attributed to Patton)
If everyone is thinking the same, then someone is not thinking (attributed to Patton)
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For anyone interested in the sr71 it’s worth a listen to Brian Shul in one of his videos he quite an interesting character and story in his own right he released the book sled driver but it’s quite expensive.
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Definitely worth a listen, amazing story he tells.SW1 wrote:For anyone interested in the sr71 it’s worth a listen to Brian
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When an SR-71 was presented to Duxford, a guest speaker was a pilot who flew that particular one. He recalled an incident while flying over Russia. They could see jets coming up to try to intercept them, but of course they were safe. So safe that he decided to dump fuel, light the burners, and leave a very obvious and impressive trail across the sky.
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Saw an A-12 parked on the bow of USS Intrepid, Sea Air and Space Museum in the Hudson River NYC. It was back in the early noughties but I believe it's still there.