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Why The Mach 3 SR-71 Blackbird Was Never Shot Down
19FortyFive ^
| 9/13/2022
| Brent M. Eastwood
Posted on 09/13/2022 9:58:35 AM PDT by whyilovetexas111
Speed can do many things for an aircraft. It can allow an airplane to get to its target quickly and complete its bombing run. Speed can help outmaneuver enemy fighters and shoot them down. It enables survivability to outfox air defense systems. Spy planes such as the SR-71 Blackbird could really boogey. The Blackbird had MACH 3 speed that allowed the bird to outrun surface-to-air missiles. That’s 36.55 miles per minute or 3,216.4 feet per second.
In fact, when the SR-71 streaked by, SAMs could barely lock on to target, and if they did the Blackbird was already out of range. This allowed it to outrun and evade over 4,000 enemy missiles that were fired at it over the years.
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I loved this plane and have seen it many times. I think it could be modernized and still flown. Mach 3 is pretty crazy. I think it hit Mach 3.56
To: whyilovetexas111
A feat of engineering for the history books. The fact that they were able to design and build it without modern computers makes it even more inspiring.
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posted on
09/13/2022 10:02:28 AM PDT
by
volunbeer
(Find the truth and accept it - anything else is delusional)
To: whyilovetexas111
“I loved this plane and have seen it many times.”
I think it is the Eglin AFB museum that has one outside you can get close-up to.
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posted on
09/13/2022 10:04:30 AM PDT
by
TexasGator
( )
To: whyilovetexas111
This was an amazing aircraft. It was designed so that it could “breathe,” or expand and contract and flex in flight, given certain outside pressures and conditions. It was simply a marvel of engineering and technology.
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posted on
09/13/2022 10:05:04 AM PDT
by
ought-six
(Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
To: whyilovetexas111
If I recall, much of the titanium came from the Soviet Union.
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posted on
09/13/2022 10:05:08 AM PDT
by
sasquatch
To: whyilovetexas111
The husband of a gal that worked with Mrs rktman was an AF SR-71 jockey. He told me he once had a task to video/film the space shuttle external tank re-entry but got pulled off for another mission. He said he’d have to, do something to me if he told me what it was. LOL! He loved flying them. One landed at Patrick AFB south of Cocoa Beach once for some issue and we were near by when they departed. Friggin’ awesome.
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posted on
09/13/2022 10:06:28 AM PDT
by
rktman
(Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
To: whyilovetexas111
As is said amongst fighter pilots...”Speed is life”.
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posted on
09/13/2022 10:11:41 AM PDT
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(Great minds drink alike...me and my baby havin' a hell of a night. - - BB King)
To: whyilovetexas111
As a young USAF Airman fresh from a year's tech school, my first assignment was a year and a half as an electronics technician on the SR-71 (it was not known as the "blackbird" at the time).
What a character building experience. More responsibility than I've ever had before or since.
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posted on
09/13/2022 10:11:50 AM PDT
by
Seaplaner
(Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never...in nothing, great or small...Winston Churchill)
To: Bloody Sam Roberts
3 most useless things to a pilot?
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posted on
09/13/2022 10:12:21 AM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
To: whyilovetexas111
Why did they retire the SR-71 yet they are still flying the U-2?
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posted on
09/13/2022 10:15:41 AM PDT
by
Rummyfan
(In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. )
To: TexasGator
They’ve also got one at the Air & Space museum in Huntsville, AL. They’ve got it sitting in front of the main building by the parking lot. Quite a machine to walk around and look at. It’s roped off but you can get in pretty close.
To: central_va
Fuel on the Ground
Runway behind you
Sky above you
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posted on
09/13/2022 10:19:50 AM PDT
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(Great minds drink alike...me and my baby havin' a hell of a night. - - BB King)
To: TexasGator
There’s one in the Pima Air & Space Museum in Tucson, AZ. It’s kept indoors, but you can walk around it.
To: TexasGator; whyilovetexas111
The Seattle Museum of Flight has a rare Blackbird variant (M-21) on display that you can get close to. There is also an SR-71 cockpit you can sit in. Did that when I visited Seattle, pretty cool:
https://www.museumofflight.org/Exhibits/cockpits
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posted on
09/13/2022 10:21:57 AM PDT
by
Kolb
(Compone Accomoda Supera)
To: Bloody Sam Roberts
The temperature in flight-was it 600 degrees?
To: whyilovetexas111
The answer is right there in the headline - Mach 3
To: Rummyfan
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posted on
09/13/2022 10:29:12 AM PDT
by
gundog
( It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
To: sasquatch
Most of it did. Acquired through CIA front companies scattered around the globe.
To: lump in the melting pot
The military usually puts out a low figure, the actual speed being classified. Mach 3 plus would be how it was described by most.
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posted on
09/13/2022 10:31:01 AM PDT
by
gundog
( It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
To: Yardstick
“It’s roped off “
I ran my hands over the one at Eglin. Not as “sleek” as I expected with the riveted joints.
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