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Rusty in Montana
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Rusty in Montana
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Oh boy!!!! I am drooling. That SR 71 was the ultimate. It was originally designated YF-12A. The Y F for experimental fighter.
George the Greek
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We had the Avro Arrow and too bad they mothballed it and who knows where we'd be in aeronautics today
Since the pilots needed 24 hrs preparation time to fly that bird, it was Not a good response time for the dog fights of the day. Mid 50s if I recall right. So the S R of special reconisence was more appropriate. It was capable of going into space far out of reach of missile attack as it is a missile with men in it .The pictures taken from 120,000 feet at Mach 3 could read numbers on license plates. Perhaps a major deterrent during The Cold War. 
The higher you fly the faster you can go. Mach 5 was within it's capable. The design had it flying with fuselage components glowing orange with heat from friction. So on the ground it rattled like the old pickup on the dirt road. Bit once warmed up it all went tight. The U-2 was our other recon aircraft at the time. Both flew out of Beale.
The higher you fly the faster you can go. Mach 5 was within it's capable. The design had it flying with fuselage components glowing orange with heat from friction. So on the ground it rattled like the old pickup on the dirt road. Bit once warmed up it all went tight. The U-2 was our other recon aircraft at the time. Both flew out of Beale.
Can't remember the name of the designer, yet. He designed several leading edge aircraft. 
Lockheed Skunk Works. Should be a fruitful Google search.
Kelly Johnson was the design leader.
Kelly Johnson was the design leader.
Ha ha Google says mid 60's it was flying mid 50s as a unidentified object. They came out in the 60's.
Those SR planes are a something. There was an anecdote here about some SR pilot at an air show IIRC explaining how it leaked fuel or had to built that way to accommodate the expansion and contraction.
I was driving a 4wd pickup in rural, southern Nevada in about 1978-79, near the 'test site' when I saw what I described as a 'flying triangle'. No one believed me. Yet decades later, I realized I'd seen a prototype of the B2.
I expect a lot of the 'UFO's' being reported today are military prototypes, so the government has to claim they know nothing about them.
You mighta seen the actual delta spaceship thing.
Yeah, but they didn't offer to take me for a ride!You mighta seen the actual delta spaceship thing.