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The coolest spy plane ever built, SR-71.
Various ^ | 2-5-05

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]

The coolest spy plane ever built, SR-71. I was watching Modern Marvels on the History channel last night. This aircraft broke all kinds of international speed and altitude records which still have not been beaten today. It was nothing for them to fly at 80,000 feet and it was a piece of cake to fly at about mach 3, or about 2100 mph. For those of you old enough, remember the sonic boom days? About 750 miles would create a sonic boom, or a doppler effect.

Here's the question, this plane was so fast, it was faster than the earth's rotation. What would happen with time over a long sustainable period of flying time? If it goes faster than the earth's rotation long enough, will it be ahead of time when it lands, or likewise in the opposite direction, will it go back in time. Do you think Einstein has an answer? Saturday night ponderings.



TOPICS: Culture/Society; Philosophy; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: flight; miltech; speedofsoundx5; spyplane; sr71
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To: MadAnthony1776

You could sense the pilot's sadness as they talking about the retirement of this plane.


21 posted on 02/05/2005 3:33:49 PM PST by Indy Pendance
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To: ruiner

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!


22 posted on 02/05/2005 3:33:50 PM PST by chaosagent (It's all right to be crazy. Just don't let it drive you nuts.)
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To: Indy Pendance

Now I know you're partying.


23 posted on 02/05/2005 3:34:13 PM PST by leadpenny
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To: Indy Pendance

Marty and an SR-71 at the Intrepid Museum, NYC.

Positively BADA$$ plane.

24 posted on 02/05/2005 3:34:51 PM PST by martin_fierro (_____oooo_( ° ¿ ° )_oooo_____)
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To: Indy Pendance

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.


25 posted on 02/05/2005 3:35:03 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: Indy Pendance
Astronauts don't sustainably go forward or backward in time. They maintain the earth's rotation speed.

But, they do age minutely less than the rest of us because of gravitational differences.
26 posted on 02/05/2005 3:35:24 PM PST by Connie Cardullo
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To: SpyGuy

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.


27 posted on 02/05/2005 3:35:37 PM PST by Indy Pendance
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To: Indy Pendance

That I could believe.


28 posted on 02/05/2005 3:36:09 PM PST by MadAnthony1776 ("liberalism" = "do as I say, not as I do")
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To: Indy Pendance

The space shuttle travels 17,500 mph...although the time travel effects are measurable, none have turned into Buck Rogers yet.


29 posted on 02/05/2005 3:36:31 PM PST by cabojoe
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To: Indy Pendance

They never decommission anything till they have the replacement.

Wonder what they're flying now?


30 posted on 02/05/2005 3:36:59 PM PST by djf
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To: T. P. Pole

The closest I can think of is the stealth planes.


31 posted on 02/05/2005 3:37:04 PM PST by Indy Pendance
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To: bayourod

""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.


32 posted on 02/05/2005 3:37:15 PM PST by chaosagent (It's all right to be crazy. Just don't let it drive you nuts.)
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To: Indy Pendance
Better even than the SR-71 is the XB-70:

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!

33 posted on 02/05/2005 3:37:48 PM PST by FreedomCalls (It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
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To: bayourod
Satellites and missiles aren't man driven.
34 posted on 02/05/2005 3:37:57 PM PST by Indy Pendance
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To: djf

"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.


35 posted on 02/05/2005 3:38:53 PM PST by chaosagent (It's all right to be crazy. Just don't let it drive you nuts.)
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To: Indy Pendance
Astronauts don't sustainably go forward or backward in time. They maintain the earth's rotation speed.

They exceed it by a large margin. The ISS circles the earth every 90 minutes.

36 posted on 02/05/2005 3:39:25 PM PST by FreedomCalls (It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
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To: Connie Cardullo

I've read that. It's been proven. How fast would an aircraft need to go to reverse this process. Is it possible?


37 posted on 02/05/2005 3:39:56 PM PST by Indy Pendance
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To: FreedomCalls

Only two of those made is that right? I thought one crashed and I have touched the other. It's at WPAFB in Dayton.


38 posted on 02/05/2005 3:40:26 PM PST by Flightdeck (Liberals see Saddam's mass graves as half full. I prefer to see them as half empty.)
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To: SpyGuy
There's a difference between ( measured time ) and ( linerial time ) .
Measured time, is , i .e clocks, watches, atomic clocks , so on and so on.
Linerial time, is perpetual time moving forward.
39 posted on 02/05/2005 3:40:39 PM PST by Prophet in the wilderness (PSALM 53 : 1 The ( FOOL ) hath said in his heart , There is no GOD .)
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To: martin_fierro

SX, dang it. It will always be the "SX-71"


40 posted on 02/05/2005 3:41:05 PM PST by patton (Matthew 6:6)
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