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Aviation Week outs successor to SR 71 "BlackBird" . This one can do Mach 6 and is armed...!
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Posted on 11/01/2013 4:22:41 PM PDT by njslim

Aviation Week's Guy Norris has an exclusive article on the successor for the Lockheed Martin SR-71 Blackbird, the legendary spy plane that may be the favorite of every airplane nerd in the world. The hypersonic SR-72 is the first aircraft that can fit perfectly in Star Wars or Galactica, a true space age ship.


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KEYWORDS: aviation; hypersonic; lockheed; skunkworks; sr71; sr72
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Aviation Week (oftem called 'Aviation Leak") has published an article outing successor aircraft to the legendary SR 71 Blackbird. Reportedly this is hypersonic aircraft capable of speed of Mach 6 and can carry weapons for quick strike capability.....

Way cool looking

1 posted on 11/01/2013 4:22:42 PM PDT by njslim
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To: njslim

Loose lips sink ships...and nations


2 posted on 11/01/2013 4:24:45 PM PDT by montanajoe
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To: njslim

Got mine already at “Planes R US”. An early Christmas present. Also gives me the ability to carpetbomb any pesky neighbors who leave dog crap on the sidewalks.

MACH 6 should be the name of a patriotic rock band!


3 posted on 11/01/2013 4:24:57 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: njslim

SR-71 Whackobird.


4 posted on 11/01/2013 4:25:58 PM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: njslim

It's unlikely that it has a single vertical tail.

5 posted on 11/01/2013 4:28:51 PM PDT by null and void (I'm betting on an Obama Trifecta: A Nobel Peace Prize, an Impeachment, AND a War Crimes Trial...)
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To: njslim

Devleoped from work on ‘hav blu’?


6 posted on 11/01/2013 4:29:02 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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Nothing there but conceptual views and artist’s renditions.
Not much more than speculation.


7 posted on 11/01/2013 4:29:21 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th (We have met the enemy and he is us.)
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To: njslim

Wow. Lots of folks have been waiting years for something like this.


8 posted on 11/01/2013 4:29:56 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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I remember seeing an interview of an SR-71 pilot who was flying over Libya on a reconnaissance flight.

He said his warning lights went on showing that missiles had been fired at him. He opened it up and he said the plane just kept going faster and faster. The way he explained it made you think the plane was a living thing and just wanted to go fast and was only happy when it was.


9 posted on 11/01/2013 4:32:02 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8: verses 38 and 39. "For I am persuaded".)
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How long before Zero has the design and production means signed over to the mullahs? And any production in the US banned?


10 posted on 11/01/2013 4:33:15 PM PDT by Hardraade (http://junipersec.wordpress.com/2013/10/04/nicolae-hussein-obama/)
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If they’re talking about retiring this..., the the story gains credence. If they’re talking about it coming on line, it’s more or less laughable.

Lockheed doesn’t leak. We don’t know that the hell they have until they retire it. Mach 6 sounds about right, again, if you’re talking about the SR-71 replacement.

It’s replacement should be in the range of Mach 10-12.


11 posted on 11/01/2013 4:33:35 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (People will retain the power to control the Government, or it will retain the power to control them.)
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every time I visit the Seattle Museum of Flight and see the SR71, I am always dazzled for it’s design, especially considering that was done 50 or so years ago. Radical shape still looks “today”.


12 posted on 11/01/2013 4:33:53 PM PDT by llevrok (Obama 2008 : "If you vote for me, you can keep your country")
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The SR-71’s top speed is still classified.


13 posted on 11/01/2013 4:40:04 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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Aurora?


14 posted on 11/01/2013 4:41:02 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: montanajoe

I think you can pretty well guarantee our enemies know about anything we have.


15 posted on 11/01/2013 4:46:16 PM PDT by Hardastarboard (You can keep your doctor - if you lock him in your basement.)
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I would like to record some hours in one of these in my pilots log book.


16 posted on 11/01/2013 4:47:33 PM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Under the Democrats; the Lincoln Memorial is closed; but the southern border is open)
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To: njslim

but is it also a submarine?


17 posted on 11/01/2013 4:47:45 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: DoughtyOne

I’m afraid you’re living fifty years in the past.

The leakproof lockheed doesn’t exist anymore, neither does the loyal president or even the loyal military.


18 posted on 11/01/2013 4:48:03 PM PDT by Hardraade (http://junipersec.wordpress.com/2013/10/04/nicolae-hussein-obama/)
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To: SpaceBar
The SR-71’s top speed is still classified.

Its just slightly below the speed of thought.

19 posted on 11/01/2013 4:52:30 PM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: DoughtyOne

Anything that needs an air breathing propulsion system cannot be called a “space vehicle” of any magnitude. If it’s breathing air, it’s still in the atmosphere!!!


20 posted on 11/01/2013 4:53:09 PM PDT by SierraWasp (I pledge to the USSA & 2 the democrazy for witch it stands, a nation with liberalism & misery 4 all!)
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