It's crazy how at one point in time these things were moved in secret, hidden from view on the trucks. Now they're sitting out in the open on grass and being moved freely on the roads.

The SR-71 blackbird always was and always will be my favorite aircraft.

@richardteale8203

Жыл бұрын

Yep, same story brother, since I saw a model in the front window of a model shop at about age 8! Now I'm 50 & there's nothing surpassed it yet & I doubt there ever will! I've collected books & a bit of memorabilia on it, including while at high school, making a large varnished wooden hot iron etching of one in flight with the drone on its back!

come on , it deserves a bigger hall

@Fabulousprofound168

Ай бұрын

I’m just glad it’s not rotting outdoors

@samwpatterson

10 күн бұрын

Idk, it's kinda cool for it to take up so much volume of the room and the placement let's you see so much of it

hard to really appreciate the plane when it just becomes the dark ceiling

Calling the SR-71 a marvel of engineering would be a gross understatement.

Both wonderful and painful to watch.

That was remarkable!! Thank you for posting this video and for the men and women who took care of the SR-71's move to the museum! I applaud you all for doing such a great job!!

It would be great if they could set up a projector to display the various tail art on the actual tail for people to see. (Including the banned RIP tail art)

I wish we had kept a couple alive for the public like the Blue Angels. I understand they were expensive as hell to operate and maintain but we blow through that much money in less than a second. And after all, those planes belong to us, we paid for it. Among the things that are uniquely American achievements are the lunar landings and the SR71.

And it's pretty cool to think that you are able to touch that plane now

🙏 Long Live Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird >>> a Legendary Spy Plane indeed! 🌷🌿🌍💜🕊

A must see.

Love an SR-71 at our museum ✈️🇦🇺

Go see the SR-71 aboard the Intrepid Air and Space Museum at Pier 86 in Manhattan. It sits on its own landing gear.

An airframe of stunning genius and still from the future looking. Lets not even get into the engines, but those aren't in this display....

Finally where it should be, indoors. I saw this bird outside sitting rotting away in KRIC. What a shame it was. I'm glad someone had a wake up of American Pride and ingenuity and rescued it. Same as the F-14 next to it.

Amazing work. Well done !

coooll!!

Looks better inside, I saw it outside, dirty, dusty, shameful. I have not gone to this museum yet, hope it is more dignified. However, I saw one at March A.R.B. in Riverside Ca. They have one in their musuem intact, on the ground. J-58 engines in it, J-58 engines on stands. The camera system on display, suits, support systems. You can climb the stand and look into the intact cockpit. Look up the museum online and check out a proper display of a SR71. 🎉

@RichmondTimeLapse

3 ай бұрын

They did it right ...the way it hangs from the ceiling makes it look super cool!

Why do I feel sad, knowing the performances this airplane could achieve ?!…

I wonder if they used the AMM and some original line engineers as consultants for the move

Imagine what planes we don’t know about today…

Awesome, incredible & marvelous plane & honestly a shame that bird will never fly again!😔

@RichmondTimeLapse

Жыл бұрын

Agreed!

@PiDsPagePrototypes

5 ай бұрын

Given the stresses placed on the airframes, attempting to fly them now would be reckless. But if the technologies were ever needed again, the knowledge is there to build new units, evolved from these.

Incredible! I recall in 1957 when I visited my Dad at Edwards Air Force Base in the desert, he was the Fire Chief of the base, and was able to get me in the hanger where they housed to Blackbird. Top Secret. Edwards was the testing grounds for the advance planes including the X-15. I still remember meeting Chuck Yeager when I was 17.

@REDHAZERVN

4 жыл бұрын

It first flew in1964.

@TonyArjona

2 жыл бұрын

OR DID IT? :o

honestly I much rather see it on its landing gears than like this.

I noticed on the tail area was the "dbx" logo, near the end of the video. I know 'dbx' from audio gear, are they a sponsor somehow?

Oh! So just the airframe, with none of the electrical of hydraulic systems, motors or cockpit. That will make maintenance easier, and reduce the loads on the cables. Did all the other parts get removed by the museum, or for spares for when NASA flew a couple of these?

Where is the skunk on the tail?

They could've patched up the normal leaks and switched engines to something more mundane than it's J-38's just to see at least one still fly, just never again as fast and high.

What museum did it come from? I recognize it at the beginning of the video, but I've been in so many aviation museums, I don't remember where that one was. I do remember doing a walk around of the SR-71 out front.

@chrisconnor8376

4 жыл бұрын

Warner Robins, Georgia maybe?

@tristianwilson3497

4 жыл бұрын

@@chrisconnor8376 Richmond, Va Aviation Museum.

@Zoopie101

3 жыл бұрын

Yep it’s the Richmond science museum ive been there many times!

@TonyArjona

2 жыл бұрын

It was in front of the Richmond, VA airport and later moved to be the central and wonderful exhibit at the Science Museum of Virginia ... formally the train station.

What company moved this beauty?

@TonyArjona

2 жыл бұрын

THE COMPANY

Awesome... display one of the world's technological marvels in such an aspect that it can't be easily accessed/seen! And it looks like an empty shell anyway from what I can tell in this video. Won't bother going to see that one.

@RichmondTimeLapse

5 жыл бұрын

That is a shame and sorry you will miss out. It is a sight to see and it was dying a slow death at its previous location. It needed to be moved inside to save it from Mother Nature! Thanks for visiting our channel!

@fifamia8058

4 жыл бұрын

@@RichmondTimeLapseJust went there today with my girlfriend, truly amazing display and much safer indoors. The 15 minute historical video was also extremely well done!