SR-71 Blackbird Is the Fastest Plane Ever. One Jet Almost Shot It Down.

https://nationalinterest.org ^ | March 30, 2021 | by Stephen Silver

[discostu]

Yeah, they have to swing it carefully and there’s a limited window when that change is useful. But they can. And do.

[ASA Vet]

Never saw one fly,

I too, never saw either of them that weren't there take off from Kadena.

[Nachoman]

Beautiful bird built by a God-fearing country using slide rules.

With an assist from aliens.

[Kevmo]

I knew a guy who claimed to be a blackbird driver but he flunked 2 basic qualifying questions.

I asked him how much overlap was involved in ‘mowing the lawn’. He was unfamiliar with that expression.

I asked him if it was true that the fuel tanks would leak while still on the ground, not sealing up until the heat expanded them together at a certain [classified] airspeed. He got that answer wrong.

He was fulla Bullshiite.

[null and void]

How did you know she was a vegan?

She told you, probably within the first 5 minutes!

[null and void]

Just because he locked his missile system on the SR71 doesn’t mean that the missile could catch up to it.

From the front? A well placed rock could! After all, the SR-71 is doing a over half the work!

[null and void]

And it was limping on one engine.

Different incident.

[Magnum44]

[null and void]

Now go highlight that seemingly blank area under my post #65...

[Ozark Tom]

Radar proximity detonation of a fragmentation warhead does not require any maneuver but to keep a target within the cone of debris’s.

[Magnum44]

I’m on an iPad and it doesn’t show so well. Can you pm me ?

[null and void]

Soitenly!

[Magnum44]

So my reply was almost psychic 🤣

[Rebelbase]

The X-15 was a parasite.

[null and void]

Almost...

[null and void]

Technically so is any aircraft that needed JATO bottles to take off...

[Red Badger]

AND HAND DRAWN BLUEPRINTS!...............

[SunkenCiv]

Also, the SR-71 was the only plane (so far) capable of sustained flight above Mach 2. The X-15 was a test bed that burned through all its fuel in a few minutes.

[SunkenCiv]

[LINK] Sled Driver PDF

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mILa_ZHvQU4MM0XMjYHMfmhQ6O7kGhrW/view?usp=sharing

[T.B. Yoits]

Also, the SR-71 was the only plane (so far) capable of sustained flight above Mach 2. The X-15 was a test bed that burned through all its fuel in a few minutes.

Not to argue but Mach 3 was the threshold separating the SR-71 as there are/were several Mach 2 aircraft:
-XB-70 Valkyrie prototype
-the early B-1 prototypes
-the B-58 Hustler
-the F-105 Thunderchief
-the Russian Tu-144
-the Russian Tu-160

Now the Mach 5+ pulse jet aircraft that officially doesn't exist...