Why the SR-71 “Blackbird” was the Greatest Plane Ever - APEX:60
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- Опубліковано 25 тра 2020
- The SR-71 “Blackbird” is one of the most incredible machines ever created by man. Between 1964 and 1998 thousands of reconnaissance missions were flown in SR-71s, sometimes as often as once per week. Why not more? The mission recovery for these planes was lengthy. Aircraft would often return to base missing rivets, panels, and various other parts. The price of speed is often high.
Just getting the plane into the air was a complicated task. It required a special fuel (TEB, which ignites as soon as it touches air.) to light the engines. It could only take off with its tanks half full, so it had to refuel immediately. Because of the SR-71’s relatively high minimum speed, special refueling planes were needed, as well as a new fueling arm design.
The “Blackbird” was more than a powerhouse, though. It was full of advanced technology. For example: navigation. Today, we all have a navigation device in our pockets that uses a mix of satellites and cell towers to determine where we are. That didn’t exist back in the ‘60s. Remember, this was the era of pay phones and carburetors. Not in the SR. It had a special camera on board that could see stars in day or night. That camera sent images to an onboard computer, which compared them to a database of celestial navigation data. Using all that information the computer could determine the plane’s altitude, direction, and even automatically navigate it to preset destination points.
And it was fast. How fast? Click play to find out.
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I don't wanna be that guy but I'm Libyan its written 'Libya' and not 'lybia'.
thanks for the great content.
You mean Labia right?
So after writening such a huge description you were lazy to write few nubers in km/h or meters !?
He’s Emerican… what do you expect
@@bikeman78 Emerican? You mean, American.
What the hell is a meter and why would one ever be used to describe an American aircraft?
Quantum leap comic #11 brought me here.
With the SR71,who needs UFOs?!!
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I suppose drones and satellites do the same things now. Is that right?
for the most part... minus the coolness factor.
But with recent times new needs arise. A special need that requires super sonic plane who can go to every part of the world in about 1 hour, make reconnaissance, drop a payload and be gone before you know what hits you. Blackbird SR71 might have a successor.
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Obrigado!
I'm sorry but that just sounds like taken Nazi-tech to me
Lockheed, Martin, GE, etc have always been at the forefront of technology, even when all those nazis died
@@calibvr who cares
@@bikeman78 Me
Uhm.. I hope you realise your channel pic is the anarcho-communist flag...