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SR-71 BLACKBIRD GAMEPLAY | SO FAST MISSILES CAN'T CATCH IT
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did you know that blackbird goes so fast is phlys in the air
what? no way :D
i had no phucking idea!
my favorite part was when PhlyDaily said "It's Phlyin time" and Phlyied all over everyone
not sure if this is still true but years ago when i lived in az the Tucson air museum had 2 sr-71s one that was supposedly the only one left that can be made flight ready at a moments notice and one they where restoring
More weird planes? Id wanna see the XB-70 in war thunder! it was built during the 60's, it had 6 huge engines, and it flew at mach 3. it was a strategic bomber meant to outrun interceptors, it weighed almost 270 tons, and it looked super weird, it reminds me of a duck - a very fast duck.
Narrowest point is roughly 33km so when flying Mach 3.3 at about 22km high you are traveling at 3.3*296.4m/s which is equal to 978.12m/s This means you can cross the English Channel in about 33.7 seconds. Phlydad said do the math so I did.
We do not care
@@thunderwrld yeah we do
by my maths, the narrowest point is 20 miles, Mach 3.3 is 2445 mph, 20/2445*3600 is 29.4 seconds
@@Mmjk_12 we do not care
@@Longb0w yeah we do
Mode creator here! The model is currently broken because of some technicalities necessary after update danger zone. So:
1- originally the nozzles moved like the real deal, but again, update.
2- gears and all the control surfaces are broken because of updates too.
3- I can fix it, but currently Because of study… it’s hard… and because of no incentive to do so, it’s all free after all
4-the out of body experience works by zooming in first person :)
Thanks for mod and being honest! Thumbs up!
Ram jets baby, but that was very expensive to fly.
can you tell us why sometimes we face water and the game freezes
Hi Polaska!
@Polaska tyu 'It could be easily added to top tier as a high spotter. Cap it's height ceiling, it'll have to loiter over the battlefield to designate targets anyhow'
😱😍
Oooh, or add it as the top tier 'nuke achievement' bomber for the US!
The Blackbird, despite being one the fastest aircraft to ever fly, is also one of the slowest. When stationary on the ground this supersonic aircraft can achieve speeds as low as 0 MPH! Incredible machinery.
😮
Fr?
In fact the speeds were so ground breaking that it would actually leak fuel at the speed of 0!
Its hypersonic
It's still currently achieving that record to this day.
I understand how the engines work now! It came to me in a dream. The engines don't move the SR-71 at all. The SR-71 stays where it is, and the engines move the universe around it.
Someones seen Futurama
Lol. Or it pulls an "event horizon"....
Technically, that's how all engines work. Frames of reference and all that.
frame shift drive?
I cant get it I added to user mission and it don’t work
Fun story, my grandparents worked at Skunkworks and helped build two of the SR-71s. So hush-hush that even decades later, they refused to share many details, apart from a story about the first test flights causing the plane to stretch, and working on the fancy fuel mix to remedy the problem.
I still have no idea how that fuel worked with the engines
@@Hydra_6544 Stretching has nothing to do with the fuel. This guy has literally zero idea what is he talking about.
yeah this was the shit they were hiding at area 51 iirc lol
Its not top secret anymore...... Like you can look up everything including how we bought everything to make it off the black market so the Russians wouldn't know what we were doing....for the guy asking about the fuel I'm pretty sure it was a solid fuel like what's used in rockets although the fuel leaked out during flight so flight times were affected which is part of why its been retired...I live near march air reserve and they have a sr71 which you could sit in (at least in 2009 you could).
@@piotrmalewski8178 Yes it does. The body of the plane also acted as the fuel tank, so while it was on the ground fuel would leak from the plane. As the plane flew and heated up, the plane's panels would expand, crush together, and sealing the fuel "tank."
I think the most surprising fact about this plane is that Skunk works made this plane from scratch in only...4 years. That's just insane.
Imagine what could happen if we did that now applied ourselves out of fear and Ik we do but immediate threat 4 years 4 years
I need this put into perspective, like are normal development cycles more often measured in decades?
@@JarateHunter technically the plane wasn't made completely from scratch, it was based off of the A-12 and used the same engines and general idea, but both projects combined were still faster than most modern aircraft projects like the 20 years for the F-22 and F-35, or the 10-15 expected for the B-21 Raider
With no computers.
@@theonlyegg not the computer you and I know maybe.
My grandpa was a head mechanic of 3 Blackbirds back when they were top secret when he was in the Air Force! We were actually able to go to a museum over Easter weekend to see the exact plane (based on the tail #) that he worked on! To say we don’t even know half of what this beauty can do is an understatement! It is an absolute masterpiece in every way! We grew up hearing stories (the ones he would actually tell us lol) about this plane! He said it flew so unbelievable hot that it took over 6 hours after landing to cool down enough before they could even go over the plane for inspections! I have so much respect for my grandpa, and even more after hearing him talk about his long lost friend (the blackbird) when visiting the museum! The museum let him actually talk about the plane to a crowd of people talking about how it worked, such as the cones retracting, etc. I haven’t sent my pops run in years until he saw that plane lol! The technology they had back in the 60’s blows my mind! Just the declassified information is incredible, such as the navigational system! It flew by the stars and constellations, day or night! I was told the pilot almost had the easiest job, take offs, landings and refueling. Other than that the plane practically flew itself! Unbelievable plane! I hope to know more about it, because my grandpa still won’t tell us anything other than what the public knows lol! Darn morals lol!
Seeing it in person makes you realize not only how long the plane its but how tiny the cockpit is
I was taken aback by that as well. We have one on display at Hill Air Force Base.
@@Draliseth I got to see it at the Battleship New Jersey with a carrier holding historical planes on it, I was insanely lucky to be able to walk under it.
@@npc1238 intrepid?
Imagine this as a score streak and can scout enemies from high alt. Would be cool
The sr71 had cameras so go that at max altitude it could take a picture of a car and you could read its plates
SR-71 ONLINE!
@@davidsmallwood1663 that is insane
If they'd just implement cameras already.... Downward facing, muti-target scouting. Let us take a snapshot of a whole grid square and put it on a smallish cooldown
BO1 flashback
The Blackbird breaking the YFs record is like Eminem breaking his own Rap God record with Godzilla
It was a speed to fuel usage ratio that made it more fuel efficient. Even though you burn x2 the fuel, you are traveling x3 faster which makes you cover distance x3 faster.
So going fast to save fuel worked on an SR-71, same principle was used with the XB-70 bomber program.
That's amazing
While that’s not entirely wrong, it was more fuel efficient due to the inlet spikes and altitude allowing more airflow into the engines. This airflow would (for the most part) skip past and cool down the engines, mixing with fuel to get a richer air-fuel component.
At the service/cruising altitude the air was thinner meaning less drag. The engines at altitude and speed would take a secondary role to the process mentioned above. On takeoff the afterburner accounted for 26% of thrust, at Mach 3 it accounted 100% of the thrust.
The XB-70 Valkyrie comes pretty close when it comes to look and has 3 times as many engines, is a bomber and was planned to go about as fast!
Probably the most incredible plane I've ever seen in person
yea I was thinking of that plane aswell
Apparently everyone is oblivious to the Lockheed A-12’s existence
@@obriwan It's just a precursor to the SR-71. Most people know of it that also are remotely interested in the SR-71
Let's be honest at this point after adding drones and the sturmtiger and its Goliath, I guarantee the SR 71 will end up being similar to the attack drone you can use to scout the entire enemy team or something. We are basically getting CoD MW in warthunder lol.
It would be a useful addition, but not as a playable aircraft, perhaps it is a bot for the team that circles the map or flies over every now and then, scouting or marking enemy locations, and enemy aircraft try to shoot it down
@Vidura Herath basically what I said. It would be the same as the attack drone but without the air to ground missiles. You earn a certain amount of SP and you can spawn it in and scout or it automatically scouts every enemy while you stay in your tank. I also mentioned CoD MW which has a similar system but with kill streaks instead of sp.
@@PilotTed i think instead of scouting, because that would be too op, maybe it marks enemies locations on the map, every now and then, not scouting, and could be another option for nuke or something
About being fuel efficient, the blackbird outer plates fit loosely at ground level and at altitude the plates would expand and stop and fuel leaks.
yeaah because of temperature alone. The Concorde cockpit inner panels were loose too when cold. Once in the air above mach 2 they would fit in place.
That plane flew from London to NY in 103 minutes... the top speed is still classified. Thats because nobody has ever maxed it out. One pilot, I forget his name, but he got it closest and said there was plenty more in the tank. My grandfather was an aircraft mechanic in the air force for 30 years. He had some amazing stories. Like Robin Olds flew my grandfathers F-4 Phantom in Vietnam. He shot down 2 Russian Migs in that airplane
A family friend was a blackbird pilot, his name is Brian shul. He always talked about how they detected a lock from a SAM, he would push the throttle and just simply outrun the missile. It leaked fuel when stationary because the fuel tanks sealed from the extreme heat during flight, so immediately after takeoff, the plane needed to be refueled. It is an amazing machine and it was retired mainly because of cost. The only aircraft people worried about was the foxbat, that was a pretty capable high altitude interceptor at the time, so we thought anyways.
It wouldn’t even have fuel tanks the entire plane was the tank they made a special fuel that kept cold and would pump around the plane to cool it
@@Darkreaper999 no kidding?
@@Darkreaper999 that wasn't a sarcastic question either, by the way.. I didn't watch the entire video when I came by your comment.
@@smilemore1997 yea sorry I didn’t reply but fuel tanks would add weight which in turn would make it slower so they made a fuel that you could hold a lighter up to and it wouldn’t burn plus it would pump around the plane for cooling
I think the yb-70 is crazy. Granted it never made it past development but it's still a wicked airplane
I think it’s more accurate to say XB-70
Another one of my favorite stories about the SR-71 is the one about the pilot buzzing the tower in one 😂
A graduation @ parade grounds iirc.
Nope. I was thinking of a different story. My bad.
ATC probably got a "your hearing loss is not service related"
The LA speed check story is pretty awesome. It blows my mind that this aircraft was designed with slide rules. It's the Sistene Chapel of aerospace engineering.
The only marvel of aerospace that's more beautiful than this plane is the Saturn V. Hasn't flown in 40+ years and it's still the most powerful thing to ever leave the atmosphere, and it was designed completely by hand
@@nathancroud3730 It was until around 2AM this morning!
@@lothric9081 I’m mad they launched at 2am
@@lothric9081 Lol I woke up in the middle of the night at like 12:50 local and checked it thinking there was no way and bam it was t- 2 minutes on the clock I had to run down to get my mother lol. Glad I saw it though
L.A. Speed check still cracks me up every time I hear it.
Day 440: Phly, I challenge you to get 8 kills in one game with the SU-5-1. This MBT/Tank Destroyer is severely underloved in your channel.
I think he's already done that
......MBT????????
MBT? LOL
@@helpPSYCHO lol
@@aidansmith8108 not yet. I have been asking since the November 2020. I heard OddbawZ did it.
The X-15 is definitely one you should look at. It was the aircraft that was the precursor to the sr-71 and the space shuttle
I thought the X-15 was after the blackbird
@@Hydra_6544no the x15 was built in the 50s. they applied all the tec from the x-15 to the black bird.
*_claps hands with a devious smile_*
Fun fact: the liquid JP-7 fuel leaked out of the plane when stationary at ground. When flying, the friction of the air would heat up the airframe to about 500-600°F which caused the plane to seal up. However: thats not the reason why the SR-71 mostly started with a bare minimum of fuel on the ground and was refueled in flight. The leaking was intentionally designed but the plane usually started with minimum fuel to reduce stress on the gear, the frame and the breaks.
That was a gorgeous landing and final approach 🔥
If only the Avro Arrow didn't get canned by P.M. Diefenbaker, Canada would have had one of the most advanced aircrafts of all time. But still one of the coolest aircraft's of all time
it fascinates me most that engine will expand 6 inches at high speed cause of temperature changes, also cone retracts to control where the sonic shockwave should be - to slow down the air speed
Never got to see one in person but I did get to go inside a decommissioned one , look around and given a whole talk about it. Thing is amazing.
There was the A12 Archangel which was a shorter version of the SR71, the YF12 interceptor prototype, the D21 drone vehicle, and the Corvair FISH and Kingfish designs that lost to Lockheeds A12 design are pretty awesome and worth looking into.
Fun fact the sr-71 did not have missiles the Yf-12 did have it
so it was only for surveillance?
@@kls1836 yes
@@kls1836 yep flying at around mach 3 or 4 i think. a missile goed about mach 2
So the sr-71 could not carry weapons and the YF-12 was a prototype but it was not realy used effectively
@@bruticusgamer1049 Mach 3
A-12 was the cia variant. Smaller and faster
You are correct Phly, the SR-71 Blackbird was actually the most fuel efficient at mach 3.2
Yes the engines became more fuel efficient the faster it went. While on the ground before takeoff it would leak fuel. This was because the air frame had to be able to expand from the extreme heat. In the air at speed ot was a freaking beauty
This plane is a beauty, never get tired of looking at it. I always love going down to the USS Alabama in Mobile where they have an A-12(the single seat version of the SR-71)
Different types of engines have different power bands at certain speeds. The same way props and jets have different power bands, Ramjets have their powerbands at even higher speeds. This is what makes the ramjet essential for such high speeds. I assume the "fuel saving" is just the same fuel usage, just at much faster speeds, though not having to run air through a compressor should help I think.
I saw it on a low and slow flyover. It was unexpected and godly.
Fun fact, the engines were originally made from a proposed Destroyer ship engine
I’m stationed at Edward’s currently, Maj. Kyle Roberson, test pilot, reconnaissance pilot. I can assure you we have things the public hasn’t seen. I never got to fly the Blackbird but I’ve seen it in person, as up close as you can get, and what I fly right now over China and Russia, is similar in specs to the SR71. Just like the SR71, what I fly doesn’t hit Mach 3+ until I’m over 60,000 feet. If you were to go that fast at sea level then you’d only have 2 minutes of afterburner before you were totally out of fuel. Sadly I’m the last of an era. I’m officially flying the last manned hypersonic aircraft. Everything after what I’m in will be unmanned. And it’s a good thing. The prep to do what I do is very tedious. Having to wear a pressurized suit and have oxygen pumped into it, worrying about getting heart fatigue from being so high and going so fast. I can’t give exact specs but I’ve touched 90,000 feet and I’ve exceeded Mach 5 if that gives you an idea of the extremes I face on a weekly basis. Longest flight was 40hours with a co-pilot. Literally circled the earth multiple times. Usually I’m above Russia and China though, just doing figure 8s and taking ultra High Definition video. Our camera systems can zoom in on a street sign so clear from over 90,000 feet that you can see if a bird has shit on it.
Hey Phly, glad to see you're uploading again, hope the fam is well. I saw the Blackbird at the Intrepid Air-Space museum in NYC. It was smaller than I originally thought but looks even more sleek and gorgeous in person.
One plane I really like it the XB-70 Valkyrie which was an American Cold War nuclear bomber designed to outrun missiles with Mach 3+ speed. It never went into service as Russian missiles got to fast but there is a single one in Dayton Ohio sitting in the museum. It’s massive
The fact that the second prototype had a mid air collision while they were taking pictures of it didn’t help either
I suggest watching Real Engineering's video on this plane if you're into the mechanical details
It's an extremenly well-done video from one of the best youtubers I personally know
Its too bad you never got to see the blackbird in person Phly.
It was a pretty Visceral experience. I attended an open house at Beale AFB back in 89 - and was treated to a takeoff and low altitude flybys of the blackbird, followed by a VERY high altitude supersonic overflight (it was so high we barely could make out the sonic boom) and then later, it came in to land and then the flight crew came out after doffing their pressure suits to do a meet and greet, along with the aircraft (of course we were only allowed to get within about 20 feet of it.)
They also featured a U2 takeoff, low altitude pass, and landing (which is a insane operation) - basically another U2 pilot rides shotgun in a sports car (in 89' it was an ex CHP pursuit fox body mustang 5.0l) which chases tbe U2 down to he runway and talks the aircraft pilot down to touchdown.
It was a pretty bitchin' day for an aviation geek.
Not too far away from where I live is an air museum with an SR71. I was lucky enough to sit in it as a child. So damn cool. Favorite plane right there.
So what the cones do, is as they recede into the engine housing they slow down the air for it to still go into the engine and suck squeeze bang blow, because the air at that speed would destroy the engine.
The inlet cones slowed the air down to near Mach 1ish inside the engine
i dont think so that's true for other supersonic jets but ths one is different because its a ramjet
@@squidwardo7074 it’s not a ram jet. That’s why it has the inlet cone. Like the above comment said it slows the air coming into the engine.
Very cool seeing the sr71 in game. Would be cool to add a scouting feature in to planes in tank RB. So you can jump in like a WW2 scout plane or a jet with a camera pod abd roughly ping people with the more advanced the equipment the more accurate the ping
It's engines should be producing shock diamonds
about 1986-7 i went to a summer air show where the SR-71 took off. there was a taxi bay full of various other planes (fighters, heli's and military cargo planes of different types, at least 2 deep, depending on the type of craft parked) between the crowd and the run way. i was standing at the corden tape about an 8th of the length of the run way from the planes throttle up point for take off. it was a warm sunny day and as the Blackbird took off at the far end of the runway, i felt its engine wash... let me tell you.. even from where i was standing.. there was a SIGNIFICANT increase in temperature
a seriously impressive aircraft
Went to an aviation museum late last month that had an SR-71 in it. Positioned to face you when you walk in. It was beautiful.
The issue with having the sr71 in ground battles is that at Mach 3 you would cross the map in like half a second so unless it scouts people for you there would be no way you’d be able to see someone and scout them but it would be fun to dodge all the missiles
It doesn’t have to be flying at Mach 3 mind u, but it could go at Mach 3 to escape an incoming interceptor like I don’t know the MiG 31
@@simonswanson6174 ya but if your not flying Mach 3 then every 2s6 and torm1 will shoot you down
Just give us a downward facing, muti-target scouting feature. Put it on a small cooldown and we good to go. If you go fast, it takes skill to time it right, and give reduced cooldown on "good" Intel.
it would be almost impossible to hit mach 3 in a real game. i mean you saw how long it took phly it took like 15 minutes. plus theres no point because you have to go 25km up to go that quick, where tanks on the ground even with 15x zoom would be like ants
@@squidwardo7074It would work if the mach 3 is just meant for fun
Clicked on this so fast
The Bristol 188 was a British attempt to create a similar reconaissance plane, and is fabled to be faster than the SR-71. It also look a lot like the SR-71, but with a shiny stainless steel skin.
never had the right engines though, needed more a more efficient power plant to get close
The closest distance I found between France and the UK was 32 km
So if going Mach 3.3 (4074.84 kph) it would take 28 seconds to travel 32 kilometers.
However the game shows the speed as 3500 kph, then it would take 33 seconds
the distance is actually longer due to the flight level and earths curvature
@@T.efpunkt didn’t think abt that
Mach decreases per indicated and true airspeed as you go up in the troposphere (sea level to 35,000 to 55,000 feet depending on where on earth you are) The game actually models this phenomenon.
@@admiral_franz_von_hipper5436 lmao, I just searched Mach 3.3 to kph and used that on the calculation. I don’t know shit bro
@@T.efpunkt The radius of the earth is over 6000km. Adding 22km on top of that is going to be an insignificant increase in distance. I even went ahead and calculated it for you: it would add around 100m to the distance assuming a distance of 33km, a height of 22km, and that the mean radius is 6371km. So it would add about 0.1s to the flight time
Clicked on this faster than blackbird
Originally the SR-71 is a predecessor to the discontinued Canadian Avro Arrow, a large deltawing interceptor, the Arrow program was scrapped in the mid-late 1970s by a former primer minister. That being said the staff from Avro went to work with Lockheed and help produce the SR-71, also the SR-71 is one in a series, there are different versions of the plane
This is the comment I was looking for. At least someone else knows about the Arrow!
I can absolutely recommend the read on the pilot that ejected out of this thing. Thanks for sharing the link!
Hey phly you should check out the as-42/47 it’s really funny and derpy
Hey Phly! Just wanted to mention that you made a video about the sturmtiger a few years ago, and now it has been added to the game.. Well What if they add this one too? Who knows
They wouldn't add the SR-71. Maybe the YF-12 Achangel since it carried missiles. However, the SR-71 is an unarmed recon jet.
you know he uploaded a video about it 2 days ago right?
@@plysmeister i meant an older video. It was made like 3 years ago i think? He played some random custom made sturmtiger in a custom mission.
shortest distance across channel: ~33,000 meters
Your speed: 3,500 Kph.
Required: time to cross
re-arrange velocity = distance / time
time = distance / velocity
Convert Kph into m/s:
3500 / 3.6 = 972.2
Velocity = 970 m/s
substitute information into formula t=d/v
t=33,000/970
t =~ 34 Seconds.
Therefore it would take your aircraft 34 seconds to travel the shortest distance across the channel while flying at a constant speed of 3,500 Kph.
I heard one of the SR-71 pilots said if you got her up to full speed and put her into a decent climb, she'd be capable to go into low orbit. Probably wouldn't be able to bring her back down though. I know the pilots wore pressurized suits but I don't know if they'd be rated to survive in low orbit.
Anything is possible with Gaijin Tbh. I’ve learned this in the 8 years I’ve been playing across 2 accounts. Hoping we get B-52 and Tu-95 at some point in game as well!
B52 would make a sick top tier PE-8 equivalent
Sweden’s ja-37 was the first to have radar lock on the sr-71
Holy joint dude. These vids are getting better and better! 💯
Glad you and lil Bink Bonk are doing good, good to see your videos again.
As a child of the '80s, yea...the SR-71 was always of interest lol. I love the story of how President Ford, I think it was, released confirmation of the SR-71 to cover for the existence of the YF-12
Phly, you've brought back the "Everybody" intro right? Well, there has been a certain song kinda stuck _In My Head_ phor a while that you could also bring back!
Attempt # 459
The song i mean is Virtual Riot - In My Head (feat. PRXZM)
The blackbird files in all-time Afterburner. It has a very limited supply of special ignition fuel so talking it out of burner meant burning through your secondary fuel tank. It also has much slower acceleration than a Mirage or F-4 at low altitudes. An F-104a could smoke the SR to Mach 1.4. it also never went Mach 3.3. that was the A-12. It's got issues with engine stalls at certain regimes too so prepare for a top gun flat spin
Seeing the Skunk Works logo reminded me of my late great grandfather. He painted the Skunk works logo on the blackbird
love seeing you upload again, I miss watching these videos
I got 5 bucks so... when and where?
Essentially how the J58 works is it’s a normal turbine with an afterburner that adds additional fuel after combustion, but then what they did was have bypass tubes that shoot compressed air into the afterburner essentially acting like a ram jet but much more efficient
The J58 engine had six bypass tubes that would take air directly from the compressor stage and dump it straight into the afterburner, on top of all the other air whizzing around the engine and being burned in the afterburner. This in turn, turned the J58 into a "turboramjet". So the engines were, technically, were still operating.
The m21 is basically a Blackbird but has a drone on the top that it can deploy called the d21 . There is one on display at the Boeing museum in Seattle Washington
The b-2 and b-21 come really close in the uniqueness aspect of the planes
By the way. You can see this thing irl in New York on the USS Intrepid. The itrepid in general is really cool (it is an old aircraft carrier that is now used as a museum). You can also see other jets and a spaceshuttle there, and except for the spaceshuttle, the blackbird really was ohne of the coolest things there.
Seeing this plane when I was a kid was spectacular but hearing the Sonic boom not once but twice was the real fun!
I got to see one at a museum when I was a kid, absolutely astoundingly cool
Phly If you go to Hutchinson Kansas there's a museum of air and spacecraft called the cosmosphere and they have a real sr71 blackbird that you can not only see but can touch (even though you're not supposed to) as well as a lot of other really cool craft and rockets. It's definitely worth checking out if you ever get the chance
The end result of thrust from a plane is propelling air behind it. Jets do this with turbines, big fans compressing the air out of the back. Basically a sophisticated propeller. With all of that high pressure gas and oxygen, add a little fuel, and boom, Liquid turns to gas adding to the thrust (afterburner). At high enough speed you can just open up the air intake, bypass the turbines (no more powering propellers) and just pump the fuel into the air compressed by the momentum of the plane, saving you the energy of the turbines entirely. Viola. Slightly more energy efficient hella fast machs.
Very cool aircraft. We've got an A-12 (CIA version of the SR-71) hanging about 29 min from home. STRATCOM & Aerospace museum. Great place to visit. Had a Mig-21 too. Incredible how actually small the Mig-21 is IRL.
i actually studied the engienes for my chemistry essay (more specifically the titanium) and theres found thats theres a so so so much info on them. I even found unclassified documents from pratt and whitney themselves that was like 600 pages long. Just crazy stuff tbh
In 1984 I was a 6 or 7 year old boy. My Father and I had built a model of an SR-71 (the old Monogram kit with the D-21 drone) and I remember bringing it to school for show and tell. No one, not even the teach believed it was a model of a real airplane. "That's a spaceship!" was the most common reply. I'll never forget that.
Fun facts.. It leaked fuel while on the ground because the titanium body expands and seals itself from the friction heat created during flight. It had 2 liquid nitrogen dewars onboard that were pumped into the fuel tanks to keep the fuel from catching fire from the exterior heat (from how hot it got during flight) and basically when the dewars were empty it had to land otherwise it could fly indefinitely. The engines were cooled by using its own fuel as coolant as well as cooling the nose section that stored the instrument package(s). The engines could run in afterburner indefinitely. And it used stars for its GPS system. AMAZING plane. That’s just a few. 🤯
Thankyou so much Phly for mentioning Mustard in this video. I have watched Mustard for a decent while and wish he posted more. with this he'll get more recognition more subs and hopefully start posting more videos for us to watch.
Only plane that even came close was the Mig 31 it could match the SR71 in speed being only 40mph slower but for a few minutes at a time before it destroyed its engines. Some Mig 31s even successfully intercepted SR71s meaning they got target lock with their missiles but never fired, shortly thereafter surface to air missile got fast enough to intercept the SR71 so all development on making a faster mig stopped due to missiles being much cheaper.
One of the coolest aircraft I know is probably the D-21 drone and the M-21 that launched it. Not sure if it ever saw use, however it's probably one of the coolest looking combination of aircraft you can get. You can really go down a rabbit hole on how many different variants came from the Blackbird. Amazing video as always dude 👌
It saw use. There was one drone thst crashed in USSR territory, and another d21 drone that had a mishap so they didn't use them after that
I want to say the only surviving example of the m21 and they may have a d21 as well, it's been 20 years since I've been there but the Seattle museum of flight has the m21
Fun fact while making sr71 or the a12 as it was known then. They created a little known plane called the d12. It was a mini sr71 capable of mach 3.5. It was a drone that could be launched from a special style sr71 or from Boeing bombers. it looked so cool. They canceled it after making like 35 or so because it's job was to be launched take photos of strategic places, fly over friendly airspace and jettison the film to be picked up and then the drone self destructs. It was bad ass looking though.
They was big block Buicks/ 401 CID nailheads for the starter units for this aircraft. And here is a few other facts, The J-58's and a few of their parts and systems was painted in 24 K gold to help heat dissipation. All SR flight crew members was married you couldn't be a bachelor and even be thought of for the Blackbird program when it was being run out of Beale AFB. The AIM-47 was to be armed with a low yield nuke warhead so as to be able to knock down the maximum number of bombers if they was flying in formation, I think the blast as to cover almost 3/4 of a mile in diameter with a shockwave of 10-15 miles out from the blast that would severly damage and knock down aircraft. What really killed the YF-12A and the reason it did not see the light of day was it took 180 miles to turn 180 degrees!!!!! when it was flying at altitude and speed.
there’s a de commissioned sr71 at the space and rocket center in Huntsville al, very cool to see in person
The efficiency of ramjets is fairly good for the speeds achieved, but the biggest gain in fuel efficiency is being in a low-drag environment (eg. 85,000ft up).
my grandpa was in the Airforce during vietnam and was stationed in Albuquerque, New Mexico. both him and i agree it was a sexy looking aircraft
I live 40 minutes from Duxford, I've been many times, they have a blackbird in the US air force exhibition hanger, its not as big as you imagine but still incredibly cool, unfortunately it doesn't fly but you can stand within inches of it and if you're tall enough you can have a sneaky touch when no one is looking
Phly. They have one on display at the Space and Rocket center in Huntsville Alabama. You can see it from the interstate.
Phly is a Mustard fan. Man, I love these kinds of crossovers.
You can see one of them on display (full walk around) at the Museum of Flight in WA.
The blackbird did a flypast at our school. It was late because it overshot the UK and ended up in Belgium 😅. I lived near the biggest Air Base. We got all the B-52's as well.
Phly! Got a good one for ya. Im currently reading a book, “Skunk Works” by Ben Rich. Now, I’m sure you already know of Skunk Works but the book is told from a first person perspective of a thermodynamics engineer for Skunk Works and also would later go on to manage Skunk Works during the creation of the F-117. Now that rivals the Blackbird. Not so much in speed and prowess but it’s engineering feats were amazing at the time. As an aviation mechanic, it’s really interesting to read about some of the engineering problems they encountered and overcame. Yes of course, like many others the SR-71 is my favorite. But the F-117 was such a triumph that most people in the pentagon didn’t believe what Skunk Works was selling. But they were wrong to not believe.
Thanks for reading, hopefully you read it!
For the YF-12 use it in Enduring Confrontation as they would actually get to the battle field.
Technically, they were Buick* Wildcat V8s. 2 of em, bonded by a gearbox on a cart. And they revved to nearly 5k rpm in order to get the engines up to about 2200 rpm in order for them to spin on their own power.
I saw the blackbird in a museum in Oregon the thing is massive I couldn’t believe it and the edges like the sides are actually extremely sharp not blunted
Love the SR71 but being a Brit I love the (old school) English Electric Lightning, and the Vulcan. Vulcan especially, 'cos I'm 63 and Vulcans were still based at Finningley (Doncaster, UK) when I were a kid.
Go to the Air Zoo in Kalamazoo, MI. You can see and touch one of the last intact SR-71's, as well as many of the planes we all play in the game.
The XB-70 Valkyrie is a gem as well
I love they turned jetfire into the sr-71 Blackbird
Jets are more fuel efficient at altitude. The engines on the YF and SR were not easy to start. Especially if you were traveling supersonic. It took 2 Buick big block engines to start each SR engine on the ground. The engines still run with the afterburner on. The engine nosecones help control the speed of the air to allow the engine to process or bypass it properly. Mach speeds will stall engines if the air entering the inlet isn't sufficiently slowed down.
Phly take a trip to Dayton, Ohio for the US Air Force Museum, also the SR-71 went coast to coast in 1:07:53.69, LA to DC in 1:04:19.89, St Louis to Cincinatti in 0:08:31.97 and KC to DC in 0:25:58.53
I saw this bird at the air museum in Oregon when I was 4. The old man who worked there said it was the fastest plane in the world and could go from Portland to seattle in 9 minutes