The Hermeus Podcast 09 - Flying the SR-71 “Blackbird”
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- Опубліковано 10 вер 2024
- The SR-71 “Blackbird” is a legendary aircraft. It remains the world’s fastest airplane - a title it has held since the 60s. In this special episode of The Hermeus Podcast we chat with two former crew members of the SR-71 and get into some rather thrilling stories.
PODCAST GUESTS
Skyler Shuford - Founder, COO
Tom Veltri - Retired USAF Lt. Col.
Robert Behler - Retired USAF Maj. Gen.
Michelle Tyrlik - Sr. Flight Test Engineer
HIGHLIGHTS
02:12 - SR-71 overview
04:31 - Why hasn't an airplane surpassed the SR-71 speed record?
06:46 - The need for the SR-71
12:32 - How is Hermeus doing things differently?
14:39 - The 5 MAJOR innovations needed to build the SR-71
20:12 - How did your career lead you to fly the SR-71?
27:32 - Was the SR-71 your favorite plane to fly?
28:50 - What do you think of Hermeus?
33:16 - Bob's most challenging SR-71 flight
34:58 - Refueling in a thunderstorm, with two afterburners lit
37:48 - Eating while flying the SR-71 (baby food and Gatorade)
39:48 - Autonomy vs pilots
47:15 - Blowing an engine near the Soviet Union, getting saved by Swedes
01:01:41 - Sonic boom diplomacy
01:07:13 - Becoming an SR-71 pilot
01:09:35 - What's the WORST thing about flying the SR-71
That’s so nice that you gave medals to the Swedish crew 30 years later. Meeting your rescue team is part of completing the story. As an aviator I really appreciate this decision making and bravery under pressure. Well done.
“All about loud noise and speed!” Bob, you’re damn right!
It was a great podcast lots of knowledge to earn
Thanks Hermeus❤️❤️
I really enjoyed that
Best podcast episode ever!
Reason why we haven't built new sr71 is because we have satellites now which are far more effective than a hypersonic plane, and btw modern s400 and anti aircraft stations can easily shoot down sr71
Yeah idk what Bob was trying to say. I think he’s mentally stuck in a bygone era.
good work
I would pay just for the lava lamp experience!
The SR71 is an unarmed museum machine used for sightseeing flights over countries with insufficiently developed defenses.
Actually it was mostly used to fly on the periphery of the Soviet Union and China which it did very successfully. It was immune Soviet and Chinese interceptors. It was also immune to the SA-2 SAM and although the SA 5 was a threat performance-wise they could disable it with ECM.
They also overflew the Middle East and Libya, who had SA-5 and were unharmed.
It was never shot down because no country could shoot it down, and they tried.
@@rdubb77 After the downing of U2 with Powers, a similar flight was not repeated. There is no aircraft for such a purpose.
@@milanbaran7291 it wasn’t repeated because we promised Kruschev we wouldn’t overfly the Soviet Union. The A-12 could have easily overflew the Soviet Union in 1962 as it was invulnerable to the SA-2 and all Migs but it was a good idea to keep our word.
@@rdubb77 The reason was new anti-aircraft missiles.
@@milanbaran7291 nope. As I mentioned the SR was invulnerable to the SA-2 which was the primary SAM for the 60s and 70s. This was tested over Vietnam where the SR overflew many times and the NVA had those SAMs. Not a single SR was shot down.
The SA 5 introduced in the 70s was a threat but it could be neutralized by the ECM system, since an SR had actually listened in to their guidance signals and copied it and sent it back to the missle to confuse it.
Hence the only reason why we didn’t overfly China or USSR was political.
You also don’t seem to understand that there was no reason to overfly Russia or China: at 12 miles from their border at 80000 feet you can see hundreds of miles into the country.
Please stop debating me you don’t know what you’re taking about . Take the loss and move on.
@nobushido Monaurally, it ain't half bad.
25:45
As an audio engineer... the panning in this video is so extreme its almost distracting.