The coolest spy plane ever built, SR-71.

Various ^ | 2-5-05

[Indy Pendance]

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.

[ko_kyi]

I loved the old joke about the Blackbird calling some ATC and requesting FL600. The ATC advised them cleared to climb to FL600. The pilot replied "descending to FL600."

[Indy Pendance]

Maybe ask the folks at Roswell?

[Flightdeck]

Thanks for the info. I know the windshield would be hot to the touch for the pilots even with leather gloves because of the friction. And the plane was almost sunk until Kelly Johnson invented the aerospikes.

[FreedomCalls]

Doughnuts on a rope contrails.

The "doughnuts on a rope" is a red herring. It's been proven that lots of aircraft produce those under the right conditions.

[Indy Pendance]

They said over 4000 missile attempts, 0 hits. They could accelerate 100-200 mph in 15 seconds to outrun sam's. Amazing

[spower]

Would anyone buy it if the top speed of the SR-71 was actually Mach 5 versus Mach 3?

[Flightdeck]

Astonauts go a little over 17600 mph relative to us.

[Indy Pendance]

Thanks, I'm learning, hence this thread.

[Prophet in the wilderness]

I had a person tell me, that he worked on the SR - 71 black bird, and he told me that they had to use V - 8 car engines to start the engines on the Blackbird, and many a time, they would ruin those V - 8 car engines just starting the plane, is that true ?

[djf]

You mean Groom Lake? Area 51? I think that's all but been shut down now.

[spower]

Yes, the plane was started with V-8 car engines!

[Indy Pendance]

I think a lot of their 'ufo' sightings were airforce testing.

[djf]

My brother was AF for a while, and had some kind of personal experience.

He said whatever number they tell you, double it.

[Tribune7]

Let's say we develop an aircraft, say, star wars movie type stuff. What would be the outcome. Will we be able to go forward or backward in time? It's an intriguing topic.

Whoaaaaa, dude. You're wasted.

[Indy Pendance]

I also heard they leaked a lot of fuel.

[delacoert]

How fast would an aircraft need to go to reverse this process.

Reverse what process? The aging process?

Is it possible?

No.

[Prophet in the wilderness]

And the F - 35 JSF , yes, they have a plane there thats not even in the Air forces service yet, but in a museum.

[spower]

I've heard the '5' from a few who should know over the years.

[Indy Pendance]

If you knew anything about physics, this topic would be interesting to you.

[boomop1]

Actually it was designated as the YF-12A.