The Blackbird

[yud]

Today in 1964 The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird had her first flight so here’s to the Blackbird, the fastest and coolest plane ever

 

[Gareth]

I didn't know that.

Here's to a beautiful bird.

[Mike, Lord of the Spammers!]

She was a fine ole lass alright

[David]

 

[donvito]

Beautiful feat of engineering, there's one on USS Intrepid that I should check out. By the way the fastest place to date is the X15, another beauty 

[Whoey]

one of my fav all-time aircraft, was chuffed to see Jetfire/Skyfire was made into an SR-71 in the 2nd Transformers movie... 

[yud]

Beautiful feat of engineering, there's one on USS Intrepid that I should check out. By the way the fastest place to date is the X15, another beauty 

it dose not count as it was lanuched from a B52 and did not take off on its own power.

[Medic82]

It's one hell of an airplane that really stands out. Love the Blackbird.

[Viking]

I got a chance to see the Blackbird a couple years ago in McMinnville, OR along with the Spruce Goose.

Very cool to see in person.

That's the wing of the Spruce Goose above the Blackbird

[Mike, Lord of the Spammers!]

Mr Hughes's bird really was huge

[yud]

Mr Hughes's bird really was huge

it is still the largest

I woud like to see her sometime

[thebullfrog]

The X-15 wasn't a plane, it was a missile with a dude strapped into it.

The SR-71 is really an awesome piece of engineering. Beautiful to look at, staggering to think what it was capable of, especially for it's time.
There's something about an object that is built to do one single thing and do it to absolute perfection at the expense of being able to do anything else in any practical way that just does it for me. The Blackbird gets me all giddy the same way watching a Formula-1 car (yes, even the awkward current cars) does. It's that "pinnacle of human technology" vibe.

[Chako]

Definitely one of the sexiest, if not THE sexiest airplane ever made.

[Black Rose]

Awesome plane.

I wished I had been able to see one at an airshow, but never did.

Here is a little humour I read previously about the Blackbird and ground speed checks:
http://wurthwines.com/Blog/?p=110

Blackbird FTW

[Smitty44]

It broke the world speed record,but it is still classified to how fast it can go. &

[Mike, Lord of the Spammers!]

Awesome plane.

I wished I had been able to see one at an airshow, but never did.

Here is a little humour I read previously about the Blackbird and ground speed checks:
http://wurthwines.com/Blog/?p=110

Blackbird FTW

Great story that

[Gareth]

Awesome plane.

I wished I had been able to see one at an airshow, but never did.

Here is a little humour I read previously about the Blackbird and ground speed checks:
http://wurthwines.com/Blog/?p=110

Blackbird FTW

Great story that

Superb.

[yud]

Kelly Johnson's book said some intresting things about her, at frist she ws fighter and the mavrick misslie was made for the blackbird and because of the seed of the plane added to the speed of the misslie, it go trans sonic (mach 5 or 6).  Also in testing they had a 90% hit rate at mack 3 .

[Sazabi]

Kelly Johnson's book said some intresting things about her, at frist she ws fighter and the mavrick misslie was made for the blackbird and because of the seed of the plane added to the speed of the misslie, it go trans sonic (mach 5 or 6).  Also in testing they had a 90% hit rate at mack 3 .

Perhaps it's just me, but if the missile was going so fast, did they even bother to include explosive on the missiles intended for the Blackbird, or did they use depleted uranium payloads instead?  While an explosion would be interesting, imagine such a dense projectile traveling that fast and penetrating something. 

[Mike, Lord of the Spammers!]

Kelly Johnson's book said some intresting things about her, at frist she ws fighter and the mavrick misslie was made for the blackbird and because of the seed of the plane added to the speed of the misslie, it go trans sonic (mach 5 or 6).  Also in testing they had a 90% hit rate at mack 3 .

Perhaps it's just me, but if the missile was going so fast, did they even bother to include explosive on the missiles intended for the Blackbird, or did they use depleted uranium payloads instead?  While an explosion would be interesting, imagine such a dense projectile traveling that fast and penetrating something. 

Your right, you've got to imagine the kinetic energy alone would do the job

[Sazabi]

Kelly Johnson's book said some intresting things about her, at frist she ws fighter and the mavrick misslie was made for the blackbird and because of the seed of the plane added to the speed of the misslie, it go trans sonic (mach 5 or 6).  Also in testing they had a 90% hit rate at mack 3 .

Perhaps it's just me, but if the missile was going so fast, did they even bother to include explosive on the missiles intended for the Blackbird, or did they use depleted uranium payloads instead?  While an explosion would be interesting, imagine such a dense projectile traveling that fast and penetrating something. 

Your right, you've got to imagine the kinetic energy alone would do the job

>.>  Now I want to see video of a super-dense projectile traveling at such transsonic speeds hitting something. XD

[yud]

Kelly Johnson's book said some intresting things about her, at frist she ws fighter and the mavrick misslie was made for the blackbird and because of the seed of the plane added to the speed of the misslie, it go trans sonic (mach 5 or 6).  Also in testing they had a 90% hit rate at mack 3 .

Perhaps it's just me, but if the missile was going so fast, did they even bother to include explosive on the missiles intended for the Blackbird, or did they use depleted uranium payloads instead?  While an explosion would be interesting, imagine such a dense projectile traveling that fast and penetrating something. 

Your right, you've got to imagine the kinetic energy alone would do the job

>.>  Now I want to see video of a super-dense projectile traveling at such transsonic speeds hitting something. XD

Me tood that would be something

is that a pic of you?

[Sazabi]

Kelly Johnson's book said some intresting things about her, at frist she ws fighter and the mavrick misslie was made for the blackbird and because of the seed of the plane added to the speed of the misslie, it go trans sonic (mach 5 or 6).  Also in testing they had a 90% hit rate at mack 3 .

Perhaps it's just me, but if the missile was going so fast, did they even bother to include explosive on the missiles intended for the Blackbird, or did they use depleted uranium payloads instead?  While an explosion would be interesting, imagine such a dense projectile traveling that fast and penetrating something. 

Your right, you've got to imagine the kinetic energy alone would do the job

>.>  Now I want to see video of a super-dense projectile traveling at such transsonic speeds hitting something. XD

Me tood that would be something

is that a pic of you?

No, it's doppelganger week on FB, and Leonard Hofstadter just so happens to look close enough to me to be my doppelganger. XD

Here is a picture of me.