Marty and an SR-71 at the Intrepid Museum, NYC.
Positively BADA$$ plane.
Posted on 02/05/2005 3:15:15 PM PST by Indy Pendance
Edited on 02/05/2005 3:17:49 PM PST by Lead Moderator. [history]
You could sense the pilot's sadness as they talking about the retirement of this plane.
Blackbird's Prayer:
Yea, though I fly through the Valley of Death, I shall fear no evil.
For I am at 80,000 feet and still climbing!
Now I know you're partying.
Marty and an SR-71 at the Intrepid Museum, NYC.
Positively BADA$$ plane.
I dunno, but you can see the SR-71 close up at the Smithsonian's "America's Hangar," at Dulles Airport outside Washington DC.
The Shuttle Enterprise is there too, as well as a fabulous collection of aircraft. Any airplane nut needs to visit there before they die, its a wonderful collection.
I'm not talking movies, I'm asking about Einstein's theory of relativity with respect to the advancement of technology, something hollywood can't grasp.
That I could believe.
The space shuttle travels 17,500 mph...although the time travel effects are measurable, none have turned into Buck Rogers yet.
They never decommission anything till they have the replacement.
Wonder what they're flying now?
The closest I can think of is the stealth planes.
""This aircraft broke all kinds of international speed and altitude records which still have not been beaten today. ""
"Cept for its replacement, satellites. And its predator, missiles."
Except that satellites never seem to be in the position you need them.
And no missile can really touch a Blackbird. They fly higher and faster than just about anything out there.
To the best of my knowledge, no Blackbird has ever been shot down.
Fast as the SR-71, big as a B-52, able to carry nukes, cruised at 80,000 feet at Mach 3. The SR-71 had two engines generating 34,000 lbs of thrust each, whereas the XB-70 had SIX engines generating 32,000 lbs of thrust each! It "surfed" the sonic boom shock wave allowing it to decrease its thrust yet maintain Mach 3!
"They never decommission anything till they have the replacement."
"Wonder what they're flying now?"
Aurora, with its pulse detonation engines.
Doughnuts on a rope contrails.
They exceed it by a large margin. The ISS circles the earth every 90 minutes.
I've read that. It's been proven. How fast would an aircraft need to go to reverse this process. Is it possible?
Only two of those made is that right? I thought one crashed and I have touched the other. It's at WPAFB in Dayton.
SX, dang it. It will always be the "SX-71"
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