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Was this the result of some intense work in the field of jet propulsion,or did they find some of the parts lying around in Roswell?Same goes for the B-2,and F1-17.I saw the latter at Southend Airshow in 2001,and it looked bloody alien to me.

― Eugene Speed (Eugene Speed), Sunday, 26 January 2003 23:38 (twenty-three years ago)

didn't it fly from east to west coast of usa in under one hour?

― gygax!, Monday, 27 January 2003 02:26 (twenty-three years ago)

It's just what happens when you dump huge truckloads of cash in the middle of the desert, these wicked aircraft come out of the ground.

― Millar (Millar), Monday, 27 January 2003 03:03 (twenty-three years ago)

I studied the technology that went into the engine design of the Blackbird,and it really is some clever shit.Bearing in mind that there isn't a jet in the skies even today that can catch it(not one we know about,anyway),how come the Lockheed-Martin boys n girls came up with such an incredible leap forward in aerospace technology,and haven't gone any faster to this day?

― Eugene Speed (Eugene Speed), Monday, 27 January 2003 03:12 (twenty-three years ago)

As i understand it, this was an *incredibly* expensive skunkworks project that was kicked out near the end of the Cold War. It was designed to fly extremely high and fast for Cold War recon. This is now done much more safely and effectively with surveillance satellites. There's no pilot to get shot down, no invasion of airspace, etc. So, my guess is that spy satellites made it obsolete as soon as it got out of the hanger. Anyone remember that D.A.R.Y.L. movie with the android kid flying the SR-71 to get back to his family or something like that?

― cprek (cprek), Monday, 27 January 2003 05:08 (twenty-three years ago)

i used to have a sr-71 shirt in 2nd grade

― chaki (chaki), Monday, 27 January 2003 05:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Firefox!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 27 January 2003 05:55 (twenty-three years ago)

The Blackbird is the greatest spy jet ever. I had a poster on my wall in the eighties. I think it made a trans-Atlantic flight in one hour and fifteen minutes.

― Polo Pony, Monday, 27 January 2003 05:57 (twenty-three years ago)

i dunno, but there's deifinitely something fishy about the TK-421 modification on my stereo. there's no way i should get this much bass. it really kicks.

TK-421, yo.

alright.

― g-kit (g-kit), Monday, 27 January 2003 11:19 (twenty-three years ago)

It was thee result ov some intense work in thee fields ov jet propulsion & aerodynamicks. There is really no need to get into roswellite fluff to Xplain how thee sr71 came to be designed & built, there's plenty ov stuff, very interesting stuff abt thee Lockheed "Skunk Works" available online & in print. Thee projeckt, like thee U2 was originally funded by thee CIA, and thee original version ov thee SR71 (IIRC it was called thee AF12) was flown on spy missions w/o national markings by CIA pilots. Read up on thee XB70 "Valkyrie" Xperimental bomber. That is certainly thee k3wlest-looking plane ever made!

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 27 January 2003 13:13 (twenty-three years ago)

i had no idea they were still flying U2s, but one crashed in South Korea yesterday.

― keith (keithmcl), Monday, 27 January 2003 16:06 (twenty-three years ago)

my dad was in the air force in the early 80s and worked on the SR-71s. he assures me they're still being used for something or other, though probably nothing close to what they were originally intended for. my aunt actually did some work on one in somalia in the late 90s. and as for D.A.R.Y.L, i believe that was an SR-71. and D.A.R.Y.L was played by the kid who kind of looks like wheaton, but not really.

― Megan Pistachio, Monday, 3 February 2003 14:51 (twenty-three years ago)

six years pass...

Ummm... damn!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDbQ5xvsrIU

― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 17 August 2009 05:57 (sixteen years ago)

four years pass...

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This Stealthy, Hypersonic Drone Could Become The Most Exotic Plane Ever

Lockheed Martin revealed a planned successor to the legendary SR-71 Blackbird. Except this SR-72 will be a drone, will fly nearly twice as fast as the Blackbird and be capable of carrying weapons. And that will make it the most exotic airplane ever constructed.
If it gets constructed, that is. According to Aviation Week's Guy Norris, the detailed design has been ongoing for years in cooperation with engine builder Aerojet Rocketdyne, but whether it actually gets built is still up in the air.
Hypersonic demonstrators to date have all been powered to speed by rocket boosters, including the same massive rockets used to launch satellites into space. The new design is closely based on the canceled HTV-3X Blackswift, an ambitious proposal to build a plane capable of taking off from a regular runway like a regular aircraft, accelerate to speed and stay there, then land as normal. It's harder than it sounds, and though Lockheed says it has solved one of the trickier problems - transitioning the engine from slow to supersonic to hypersonic flight - the company declines to say how. Other issues, including dealing with the considerable heat generated at hypersonic speeds, are still up in the air. Lockheed says a smaller, single-engine, optionally-manned demonstrator aircraft would precede building the SR-72.

― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 1 November 2013 21:34 (twelve years ago)

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