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The SR-71 Blackbird is still the fastest acknowledged crewed air-breathing jet aircraft - freeradical - 03-14-2023
https://twitter.com/LockheedMartin/status/1635026632032362497?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1635026632032362497%7Ctwgr%5E71a5392713d4c15f9ce14b525ae43901f1dee098%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thedrive.com%2Fthe-war-zone%2Flockheed-hints-heavily-again-at-existence-of-secret-high-speed-jet
Re: The SR-71 Blackbird is still the fastest acknowledged crewed air-breathing jet aircraft - TheCaber - 03-14-2023
SR-71 speed check
Re: The SR-71 Blackbird is still the fastest acknowledged crewed air-breathing jet aircraft - TheCaber - 03-14-2023
Celebrating Top Gun: Maverick’s six Oscar nominations, Lockheed Martin once again alluded to the existence of a jet faster than the SR-71 Blackbird
Re: The SR-71 Blackbird is still the fastest acknowledged crewed air-breathing jet aircraft - cbelt3 - 03-14-2023
The Aurora project is still muttered about 35 years later. I recall a coworker talking about watching a hypersonic vehicle that maneuvered from one end of the sky to the other and back over the pacific missile range (kwajalein atoll) one afternoon.
Re: The SR-71 Blackbird is still the fastest acknowledged crewed air-breathing jet aircraft - ztirffritz - 03-14-2023
The book 'Skunk Works' covers as much of the SR-71 details as they're allowed to discuss. I highly recommend it. Great book. It also covers the origins of the various Stealth programs.
Re: The SR-71 Blackbird is still the fastest acknowledged crewed air-breathing jet aircraft - Harbourmaster - 03-14-2023
Love visiting the SR-71 at the California Science Center in LA!
https://californiasciencecenter.org/exhibits/roy-a-anderson-blackbird-exhibit-and-garden
Oh yeah there's a Space Shuttle there too!!
Re: The SR-71 Blackbird is still the fastest acknowledged crewed air-breathing jet aircraft - ztirffritz - 03-14-2023
That's cool. Never saw one without the paint.
Re: The SR-71 Blackbird is still the fastest acknowledged crewed air-breathing jet aircraft - SKYLANE - 03-14-2023
I love visiting that A-12 aircraft at the California Science Center along with the Space Shuttle Orbiter Endeavour. The SR-71 and Space Shuttle Orbiter were a big part of my life. My dad spent most of his career programming, updating and maintaining software for the Nav System on the SR-71 until it retired. During much of my childhood, I never knew that since he couldn’t talk about it. Most of my career was working on Space Shuttle Orbiter until priogram retired, so I do enjoy visiting Endeavour from time to time.
The aircraft at California Science Center by USC is an A-12 Trainer, elevated cockpit behind the forward cockpit allowed for the training. Can read about it here: https://californiasciencecenter.org/exhibits/air-space/air-aircraft/12-blackbird
Some timeline and relationship information between A-12 and the SR-71 found here: https://www.sr-71.org/blackbird/a-12/
I would be hard pressed to remember the year, but I recall the SR-71 flying to Pt Mugu Airshow, not to land though. The SR-71 arrived to perform two or three flybys over the runway. The crowd was thrilled, I will never forget it! A quick google came up with this, must have been one of those years that I was there (I probably have pics hiding somewhere): https://archive.vcstar.com/news/by-1980s-point-mugu-air-shows-were-popular-events-ep-293178153-351825991.html/
My dad got me a SR-71 photograph that was autographed by the crew that set the speed record in 1974 from New York to London: https://theaviationgeekclub.com/from-new-york-to-london-in-less-than-two-hours-the-story-of-the-sr-71-blackbird-that-set-a-new-speed-record-with-new-york-to-london-flight/ Reminds me, I need to see where I put that photograph, not seen since one of my previous moves.
Re: The SR-71 Blackbird is still the fastest acknowledged crewed air-breathing jet aircraft - JoeH - 03-14-2023
Harbourmaster wrote:
Love visiting the SR-71 at the California Science Center in LA!
https://californiasciencecenter.org/exhibits/roy-a-anderson-blackbird-exhibit-and-garden
Oh yeah there's a Space Shuttle there too!!
That is actually an A-12 trainer, the SR-71 was based on the A-12 design.
Re: The SR-71 Blackbird is still the fastest acknowledged crewed air-breathing jet aircraft - Buzz - 03-15-2023
ztirffritz wrote:
That's cool. Never saw one without the paint.
Yeah, that's the biggest hunk of titanium I've ever seen. That California Science Center is a hoot.
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