did you know that blackbird goes so fast is phlys in the air

@callmeasuka5849

Жыл бұрын

what? no way :D

@YleXar

Жыл бұрын

i had no phucking idea!

@doge_sevens

Жыл бұрын

my favorite part was when PhlyDaily said "It's Phlyin time" and Phlyied all over everyone

@TALONtheBlackDragon

Жыл бұрын

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

@hughmungus7015

Жыл бұрын

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.

@thunderwrld

Жыл бұрын

We do not care

@Mmjk_12

Жыл бұрын

@@thunderwrld yeah we do

@xander1052

Жыл бұрын

by my maths, the narrowest point is 20 miles, Mach 3.3 is 2445 mph, 20/2445*3600 is 29.4 seconds

@Longb0w

Жыл бұрын

@@Mmjk_12 we do not care

@DrMario-

Жыл бұрын

@@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 :)

@JohnSmith-oh9ux

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for mod and being honest! Thumbs up!

@mastersitorou8289

Жыл бұрын

Ram jets baby, but that was very expensive to fly.

@jeremygingras88

Жыл бұрын

can you tell us why sometimes we face water and the game freezes

@TetravaultActual

Жыл бұрын

Hi Polaska!

@Zach-ku6eu

Жыл бұрын

@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.

@theo9419

Жыл бұрын

😮

@ambasing638

Жыл бұрын

Fr?

@shtupidmate

Жыл бұрын

In fact the speeds were so ground breaking that it would actually leak fuel at the speed of 0!

@Traveler_of_youtube2

Жыл бұрын

Its hypersonic

@kristoferlastrapes4240

Жыл бұрын

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.

@newleaf1000

Жыл бұрын

Someones seen Futurama

@stillcantbesilencedevennow

Жыл бұрын

Lol. Or it pulls an "event horizon"....

@Maddog3060

Жыл бұрын

Technically, that's how all engines work. Frames of reference and all that.

@Cruiser323

Жыл бұрын

frame shift drive?

@willisfarmer743

Жыл бұрын

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.

@Hydra_6544

Жыл бұрын

I still have no idea how that fuel worked with the engines

@piotrmalewski8178

Жыл бұрын

@@Hydra_6544 Stretching has nothing to do with the fuel. This guy has literally zero idea what is he talking about.

@squidwardo7074

Жыл бұрын

yeah this was the shit they were hiding at area 51 iirc lol

@imablock16

Жыл бұрын

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).

@PoorlyPlaying

Жыл бұрын

@@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.

@joypatten691

Жыл бұрын

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

@JarateHunter

Жыл бұрын

I need this put into perspective, like are normal development cycles more often measured in decades?

@trevorchristian6669

Жыл бұрын

​@@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

@theonlyegg

Жыл бұрын

With no computers.

@smilemore1997

Жыл бұрын

@@theonlyegg not the computer you and I know maybe.

The Blackbird breaking the YFs record is like Eminem breaking his own Rap God record with Godzilla

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!

Imagine this as a score streak and can scout enemies from high alt. Would be cool

@davidsmallwood1663

Жыл бұрын

The sr71 had cameras so go that at max altitude it could take a picture of a car and you could read its plates

@quocviethoang8448

Жыл бұрын

SR-71 ONLINE!

@Hydra_6544

Жыл бұрын

@@davidsmallwood1663 that is insane

@stillcantbesilencedevennow

Жыл бұрын

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

@quocviethoang8448

Жыл бұрын

BO1 flashback

Seeing it in person makes you realize not only how long the plane its but how tiny the cockpit is

@Draliseth

Жыл бұрын

I was taken aback by that as well. We have one on display at Hill Air Force Base.

@npc1238

Жыл бұрын

@@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.

@random_potato2549

6 ай бұрын

​@@npc1238 intrepid?

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.

@BoleDaPole

Жыл бұрын

That's amazing

@normallymute0131

Жыл бұрын

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.

Another one of my favorite stories about the SR-71 is the one about the pilot buzzing the tower in one 😂

@BaconBeerBullets

Жыл бұрын

A graduation @ parade grounds iirc.

@BaconBeerBullets

Жыл бұрын

Nope. I was thinking of a different story. My bad.

@squidwardo7074

Жыл бұрын

ATC probably got a "your hearing loss is not service related"

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.

@viduraherath4008

Жыл бұрын

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

@PilotTed

Жыл бұрын

@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.

@viduraherath4008

Жыл бұрын

@@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

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

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!

@brettspires7746

Жыл бұрын

Probably the most incredible plane I've ever seen in person

@DrDodoBird3.26

Жыл бұрын

yea I was thinking of that plane aswell

@obriwan

Жыл бұрын

Apparently everyone is oblivious to the Lockheed A-12’s existence

@Silasssssssss

Жыл бұрын

@@obriwan It's just a precursor to the SR-71. Most people know of it that also are remotely interested in the SR-71

@Riccardo-ej8cd

Ай бұрын

It was bigger, so oc

I think the yb-70 is crazy. Granted it never made it past development but it's still a wicked airplane

@thatcringyplaneguy

Жыл бұрын

I think it’s more accurate to say XB-70

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.

@Darkreaper999

Жыл бұрын

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

@smilemore1997

Жыл бұрын

@@Darkreaper999 no kidding?

@smilemore1997

Жыл бұрын

@@Darkreaper999 that wasn't a sarcastic question either, by the way.. I didn't watch the entire video when I came by your comment.

@Darkreaper999

Жыл бұрын

@@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

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.

@aidansmith8108

Жыл бұрын

I think he's already done that

@CAPTTIGHT230

Жыл бұрын

......MBT????????

@helpPSYCHO

Жыл бұрын

MBT? LOL

@victortinti

Жыл бұрын

@@helpPSYCHO lol

@victortinti

Жыл бұрын

@@aidansmith8108 not yet. I have been asking since the November 2020. I heard OddbawZ did it.

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.

@diegokoszutskisantamaria6221

Жыл бұрын

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.

Fun fact the sr-71 did not have missiles the Yf-12 did have it

@kls1836

Жыл бұрын

so it was only for surveillance?

@DrToad-lb5jk

Жыл бұрын

@@kls1836 yes

@bruticusgamer1049

Жыл бұрын

@@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

@semiedgv

Жыл бұрын

@@bruticusgamer1049 Mach 3

@1stCavSwagger

Жыл бұрын

A-12 was the cia variant. Smaller and faster

Fun fact, the engines were originally made from a proposed Destroyer ship engine

Clicked on this faster than blackbird

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.

@nathancroud3730

Жыл бұрын

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

@lothric9081

Жыл бұрын

@@nathancroud3730 It was until around 2AM this morning!

@Hydra_6544

Жыл бұрын

@@lothric9081 I’m mad they launched at 2am

@squidwardo7074

Жыл бұрын

@@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

@Ultimategecko

Жыл бұрын

L.A. Speed check still cracks me up every time I hear it.

I saw it on a low and slow flyover. It was unexpected and godly.

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

That was a gorgeous landing and final approach 🔥

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

@Hydra_6544

Жыл бұрын

I thought the X-15 was after the blackbird

@653323895

Жыл бұрын

@@Hydra_6544no the x15 was built in the 50s. they applied all the tec from the x-15 to the black bird.

@polaska_tyu

Жыл бұрын

*_claps hands with a devious smile_*

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

You are correct Phly, the SR-71 Blackbird was actually the most fuel efficient at mach 3.2

@howardwoods342

Жыл бұрын

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

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.

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.

Clicked on this so fast

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

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.

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

@bassingaminandshootin5

9 ай бұрын

The fact that the second prototype had a mid air collision while they were taking pictures of it didn’t help either

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.

@Hydra_6544

Жыл бұрын

The inlet cones slowed the air down to near Mach 1ish inside the engine

@squidwardo7074

Жыл бұрын

i dont think so that's true for other supersonic jets but ths one is different because its a ramjet

@samwilliams4176

Жыл бұрын

@@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.

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 b-2 and b-21 come really close in the uniqueness aspect of the planes

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

@davidsmallwood1663

Жыл бұрын

It's engines should be producing shock diamonds

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

@simonswanson6174

Жыл бұрын

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

@user-anon

Жыл бұрын

@@simonswanson6174 ya but if your not flying Mach 3 then every 2s6 and torm1 will shoot you down

@stillcantbesilencedevennow

Жыл бұрын

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.

@squidwardo7074

Жыл бұрын

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

@tangent.arc38618

Жыл бұрын

@@squidwardo7074It would work if the mach 3 is just meant for fun

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)

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.

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

@T.efpunkt

Жыл бұрын

the distance is actually longer due to the flight level and earths curvature

@normal-potato05

Жыл бұрын

@@T.efpunkt didn’t think abt that

@admiral_franz_von_hipper5436

Жыл бұрын

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.

@normal-potato05

Жыл бұрын

@@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

@jacobdewey2053

Жыл бұрын

@@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

Hey phly you should check out the as-42/47 it’s really funny and derpy

Phly is a Mustard fan. Man, I love these kinds of crossovers.

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.

Sweden’s ja-37 was the first to have radar lock on the sr-71

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!

@dukeofhazard420

Жыл бұрын

B52 would make a sick top tier PE-8 equivalent

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

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

@CallMeMark_

Жыл бұрын

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.

@plysmeister

Жыл бұрын

you know he uploaded a video about it 2 days ago right?

@guutn7973

Жыл бұрын

@@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.

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 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.

@dexterp1111

Жыл бұрын

never had the right engines though, needed more a more efficient power plant to get close

love seeing you upload again, I miss watching these videos

@Longb0w

Жыл бұрын

I got 5 bucks so... when and where?

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.

Holy joint dude. These vids are getting better and better! 💯

fly quarterly! is that you?? haha just busting your chops glad ur back

I will never stop gawking at how beautiful this magnificent bird is.

I can absolutely recommend the read on the pilot that ejected out of this thing. Thanks for sharing the link!

Seeing the Skunk Works logo reminded me of my late great grandfather. He painted the Skunk works logo on the blackbird

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

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.

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.

I love they turned jetfire into the sr-71 Blackbird

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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

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.

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

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

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This is the comment I was looking for. At least someone else knows about the Arrow!

Phly posting this much in under a week is a gift of God himself

thank you for ur videos i had to put my dog down and they cheer me up so much

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

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.

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

Awesome episode 👏

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.

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.

This is the only person could make a 5 thousand word essay on any plane or tank

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 👌

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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

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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

For the YF-12 use it in Enduring Confrontation as they would actually get to the battle field.

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.

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.

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.

Had a friend who knew an SR-71 pilot. He outran missles on many occasions. One time he was scouting an uprising terrorist rally somewhere outside the US. Lets just say he buzzed the heads of 2000 people at incredible speeds. The stage was flipped over and lets just say that the regime leader went into hiding and never was seen in public again. 😂

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. 🤯

saw an sr-71 at a blue angel air show back in the 90's as a kid best fly by ever

Circles down there go spinny spinny😂

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.

So glad u are back

Fun fact 2 Swedish Viggens had to intercept a couple migs to escort a sr-71 safely to an airport on Gotland i think. Correct me if I'm wrong tho.

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 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

One of the remaining ones is sitting 10 miles from me right now :) greetings from Kalamazoo Michigan!

Great video, thank you.

The crazy part about the starting procedure with those V8’s (A Buick V8 not a Chevy) was that they’d blow one up every time they started the blackbird.

I just had a son he's almost 6 months old, best thing to happen to me man. Kids are awesome

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.

I really like this one! Cheers!