#sr 71

[usafphantom2]

Peter Heginbotham sent me his pictures of SR 71 #962 from his recent trip to the Museum in Great Britain. If you live in Europe, this is where you need to go to visit an SR 71. The Imperial War Museum at Duxford, Thank you, Peter.

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[someaxelotl]

Hi hi, here is SR-71 Soundwave plushified

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tbh I just want to show off my SR-71 plush I bought for 25 dollars at an air show

I love this little guy so much. He might be the reason I wake up with pink eye and a stuffy nose every morning but I don’t care…

that does make me think, has anyone attempted to make a transformable plushy of…. a Transformer. Like have you seen those octopus plushies that turn inside out?

Like… what if that…but Starscream.

idk man

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[themissingmango]

SR-71 Blackbird - I’ve been wanting to draw this one for months!

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SR-71 Blackbird testing at Edwards Air Force Base in the mid-1960s. Skunk Works: More Than Just the Blackbird. Lockheed's Secret Company: https://youtu.be/2A0BDbCGIRA

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I was going through my phone (as you do) and I found these pictures from when I went to an air and space museum fucking forever (over two years) ago and I. Ough.

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A pair of Lockheed SR-71 Blackbirds at altitude.

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[usafphantom2]

J-58 in SR-71 was and still is the only engine allowed continuous afterburner operation. The compressor section (that’s the very front of the engine) was allowed continuous operation up to 427 degrees C which is 800 degrees F! No other jet engine even comes close.

The metal in aft section routinely saw between 1400 and 1500 degrees C which is 2,723 degrees F! 🔥🔥🔥

This is the melting temp of most steel alloys.

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@Habubrats71 via X

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B-25 Mitchell Bomber

SR-71 Blackbird

Bristol F-2B Fighter

[responsivethoughts]

The SR-71 Blackbird.

A spy plane that flew at approximately 70 to 85 thousand (21,000 to 25,000 meters) above Earth's sea level and cruised at speeds of 2,500 miles per hour ( 4,000 km per hour) is one man's most most amazing creation in its class for the purposes of intelligence gathering.

When the enemy fired missiles and other rockets at the Blackbird, the evasive maneuver was simply, acceleration and climbing.

Nothing could reach this machine that practically flew at the edge of Earth's atmosphere and beginning of solar system space.

Enemy aircraft would run out of fuel before they could even attempt to get close to the Blackbird.

Missiles would burn out of rocket fuel. On some instances, the SR-71 outsped missiles and bullets fired at it.

Architecture, engineering and operation of this machine is phenomenal. Even though we outlived its usefulness, it would be awesome to keep this aircraft functional for research and demonstration purposes.

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SR-71 Blackbird

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SR-71 in the paint shop, January 1965

➤➤ VIDEO: https://youtu.be/AulhUIUhtnU