Posted on 04/20/2021 8:19:59 AM PDT by Onthebrink
As far back as 2013, discussions of the SR-72 Darkstar’s various capabilities have made the rounds in the media, while the fact that supposedly using off-the-shelf materials has kept it affordable in this era of tight budget constraints.
In 2017, Lockheed Martin had announced that the SR-72 would be in development by the early 2020s and could be in service by the early 2030s, but a year later it was announced that progress had been slow going based on the technological demands of the project.
“Without the digital transformation the aircraft you see there could not have been made. In fact, five years ago, it could not have been made,” explained Lockheed Vice President Jack O’Banion, referencing an artist’s SR-72 rendering presented at the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics’ annual SciTech Forum in 2018.
(Excerpt) Read more at 19fortyfive.com ...
Clickbait. There’s no escaping it.
Blackbird
The Beatles
Produced by George Martin
Album The Beatles (The White Album)
[Verse 1]
Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take these broken wings and learn to fly
All your life
You were only waiting for this moment to arise
[Verse 2]
Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take these sunken eyes and learn to see
All your life
You were only waiting for this moment to be free
[Chorus]
Blackbird fly, blackbird fly
Into the light of the dark black night
[Instrumental Break]
[Chorus]
Blackbird fly, blackbird fly
Into the light of the dark black night
[Verse 3]
Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take these broken wings and learn to fly
All your life
You were only waiting for this moment to arise
[Outro]
You were only waiting for this moment to arise
You were only waiting for this moment to arise
In other words, about average for '19FortyFive'.
Boy, this Peter Suciu is an expert on everything. Firearms, aviation, Naval history, politics...
Bad picture.
Engines are on top of the wing.
No vertical stabilizer.
“Without the digital transformation the aircraft you see there could not have been made. In fact, five years ago, it could not have been made,”
First the only plane that I see in the article is an old SR-71.
So the new plane can only be made becasue of the “digital transformation”? Do they have little “digital transformation” robots making the plane? Or does the plane only fly digitally? And then we find out that the “coronavirus pandemic certainly hasn’t helped matters”. So coronavirus is bad for digital aviation?
But does it have enough inertial speed to achieve orbit once the air runs out for the engines?
As an 19 y/o kid who had just moved from OH to Hollywood, I was listening to KHJ one Sat afternoon.
The music was songs I had never heard before and the DJ, in his British accent, was speaking about the background of each song and/or what was happening in the studio at the time.
The music? The “White Album”
The DJ? George Harrison
A week later it was released and I bought my copy (with serial number on front cover) at a little shop on Sunset.
btw, McCartney wrote “Blackbird” about the civil rights movement in US while using the English term “bird” describing a young girl.
Or, is the SR-72 the real source of some recent “UFO” sightings. At a high enough altitude and peering up at its underbelly from thousands of miles below it could easily appear to have a triangular shape to it.
Add a couple of oxygen tanks that kick in when the O2 is too low for combustion.
Enough for one puff.
Looks similar to the National Aerospace Plane (NASP) concept from the early 1990’s (https://www.jhuapl.edu/Content/techdigest/pdf/V11-N3-4/11-03-Barthelemy.pdf)
A few years back they had designs for aircraft with jet engines for lower altitudes and then hydrogen fueled pulse jets for higher altitude which left the "doughnuts-on-a-rope" contrail.
Combine that with the Burt Rutan / Scaled Composites 'SpaceshipOne' shuttlecock design and you have an aircraft capable of departing and returning to the atmosphere.
https://www.space.com/16769-spaceshipone-first-private-spacecraft.html
Don’t think this song relates to the SR-72.
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