Sr-71 Blackbird Documentary Part 4

[gamisooesi]

They built this plane for Chuck Norris!!!

[MrDasmaster]

@gamisooesi only to find out he had already built his own !

[binokoda]

In my dream's I want to be a passenger on the sr-71, looking out onto the earth at 80,000, perhaps I will do that but not in a blackbird.

[skin303677]

love the old camera ^_^

[RoadRunnerProduction]

in Soviet Russia

Dogs walks you

upps..

Wrong vid

[PanzarMetal]

Any Chuck Norris joke on this one anyone ?

[0YtsanBlowout0]

Lucky me, there is one intact at the Pima airspace museum, which is only 20 miles from here :).

[GelandnaleG]

7:45

[elite055]

but if it was flying that high, that fast, wouldnt it freezing on the outside rather than really hot? im only 14 someone explain this to me.

[zmatt]

@elite055 Your right that it is extremely cold up at altitude but the faster the airplane flies the more friction builds up on the airplane.

[LiamE69]

@zmatt Its a common misconception that its friction that causes the heat build up. Its actually the compression of the gas that does it.

[zmatt]

@LiamE69 Cool do you have an article or something about that, I searched a bit but could not find anything.

Thanks!

[LiamE69]

@zmatt pV=nRT.... decreas the volume of a gas and you increase its temperature. Thats why the pump gets hot when you inflate a tyre. Ram an aeroplane through air at 2000mph and it compresses the air into shock waves around leading edges rapidly increasing its temperature. Same thing with spacecraft rentry where the heating effect is often visible ahead of the craft in the bow shock.

[megaflyer99]

@LiamE69 which is why the air behind the airplane, the slipstream is made up of cool air from them decompression?

[LiamE69]

@megaflyer99 Yup that effect is often visible as contrails from wing tips.

[ATJSTeam]

@LiamE69

LOL, where did you get that one? the heat is from the friction, the laminar jet stream has nothing to do with it....

[ATJSTeam]

@LiamE69

LOL, where did you get that one? the heat is from the friction, the laminar jet stream has nothing to do with it....

[DVDluvr123]

@LiamE69 I have a Bachelor's in Applied Physics from Indiana University and a Master's in Aerospace Engineering from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. I can tell you for sure that the heat is from friction.

[Jevhova]

@LiamE69 that causes friction on the airframe. It builds density and mass over the frame which causes friction.

[LIGHTNICK625]

@LiamE69 No, that would happen if the front of the plane was flat (like the heat shield of the re-entry capsules). In fact, the leading role in achieving extremely high temprature outside the aircraft plays the friction of air. Gus compression still exists in the front of the aircraft.

[maddox0110]

@zmatt Friction doesn't matter much about ambient temperature. You can strike a match in freezing temperatures, in windless conditions. 

[1airplane21]

@elite055 the friction from the oncoming air at 2000 mph is so great thats why the skin becomes hot and possibly the air around the airplane is heated up from the friction or something

[erikingmundson]

@elite055 The heat comes from the air moving over the plane's surfaces very fast - that creates friction, which heats the surface of the aircraft.

That's the same reason meteors burn up when they fall through earth's atmosphere.

[mgibilterra]

@elite055 when you are going so fast its creating soo much friction with the air molicules creating heat. but im only 13 so i may be wrong

[Brantonio322]

@elite055

The air running by the aircraft at 3 times the speed of sound created much friction on the skin of the aircraft which caused it to become super heated. Rub your hands together really quickly and notice the how hot your hands get; it's the same principle.

[Jthetinman]

If that bird was built in early 60's..... And the Blackbird is retired now, what's the US have now?!! USA USA USA!!!!!

[ettlz]

3:00 Farnburrow?! Oh, he means Farnborough! :)

[Muddy194]

new york to london is an hour and a half WOW! what an awesome aircraft

[kennyG990]

could someone explain why the sr 71 isnt a good interceptor i mean really i dont understand why it isnt

[Lachausis]

@kennyG990 It took many hours to prepare it and its crew for a flight, even if less, it had to be refueled in air, because of fuel leakage.

[spicmanz]

@kennyG990 seriously? 1 because its meant for recon,

2. how many planes will there be to intercept at that altitudes

[klasco1991]

They probably do have a faster plane today and we just don't know about it ...i hope.

[reynux1]

because us have this and other invincible air force fighter jets. enymies will use icbm nuked warheads so that us wont be able to use them to retaliate. its only a matter of time i think for now these enemies areon 24/7 surveilance and planningwhere in us to launch and when. us has already done too much damage and created few enemies who seem to beinferior in technology and aggressivenessbut its difificult to tell what they're thinking of as a revenge to what us had done to them before.

[spiderman1321]

all that money and all that death for an unusable plane..... well done america you done it again

[Assaultpredator]

@spiderman1321

What? LOL

it was used tons during the cold war, just because it's no longer in active service doesn't mean it wasn't crucial during its time.

[spiderman1321]

@Assaultpredator LOL the cold war, you mean americas war? the one that achieved nothing but arming the taliban and other terrorist organizations

[wogga8]

@spiderman1321 You couldn't be more wrong. This plane was used alot in its time. Without the sarcasim, i say well done Lockheed for the genius in building this plane and well done America for being the only nation to have the abaility to commission a plane like this. Whether you like Americans or not (and no im not American) they have built some pretty cool shit over the years!!!

[spiderman1321]

@wogga8 my 3 year old niece makes good macaroni pictures too

[wogga8]

@spiderman1321 Thats a briliant reply

[Maverickf22flyer]

It arrived 4 hours before it took off..., there's no doubt that even the sun doesn't have enough time to lighten up it's shadow from behind...!:D

Awsome way as well, as it dissapears into the cloud at 4:33!:)

There's no other name in the world which can compete with it...! The Blackbird!

No other name will do..., no other name could do...!;)

[triathlete77]

I drive one to work on Monday's. Just as leaky as my Torano too. Bit of a bitch folding up the parachutes in the supermarket carpark though

[Trailltrader]

I've wanted to fly just about every aircraft in the world. And I know it in my knower if I flew the SR71,,,,I'd puke in my helmut and die in my own vomit!

[e633xx]

"It arrived 4 hours before it took off"

...talk about relativity!

[chrisb75]

I heard in another documentary this one too: You can sit down in New York and have breakfast, get in an SR-71 at the airport, fly to L.A. and be sitting at a restaurant eating again before you did in New York.

[Daedalus94]

@e633xx

No wonder that`s a record

[weathermaster]

I got to see in the cockpit of the SR-71 in person

[TheRichram]

Hello  I saw the cockpit and a/c in 1965 I was there were you

[mickety2001]

1965. Where are all the hippys?

[81broncoman]

He lied, the first SR-71 flight had a tremendous number of systems that didn't work, but it didn't fall out of the sky, and all problems were relatively quickly addressed.

[Phawkers]

4:38 Plane Penis LMAO

[gutsrace]

SR-71 's ran on RedBull and pussy on the weekends.

[nakazatoGTR]

@gutsrace 71 pilots you meant?

[gutsrace]

They could party too, for sure

[nakazatoGTR]

@gutsrace possibly fueled by the same amount of beer as compared to the 71 fuel load...

[sr71ablackbird]

@gutsrace Try JP-7 with a shot of triethylborane

[Adam781]

@sr71ablackbird Shh...Buzz Killington over here

[sum182wrestling]

LOL

"It arrived about four hours before it took off"

[h8liver]

*****

7:20 - 7:28 RIP Most brave courageous Americas best pilots.

7:50 - 8:17 True Definition applicable to the CSA

All memories cherished.

~Semper Paratus

9th SRW, SAC, OMS, BAFB, Det 1 (HABU)

[chadjconnell]

i think we still most def. have a "need" for planes like these-just to keep other countries "honest" so to speak- sat's are good too but this shows some muscle as well not just an ability to take a picture

[alexvdbroek]

I wonder if they have a replacement today? I know we have satelittes, but just as a quick "look in" plane

[gb1227]

I would have to say YES, why else would they retire it from service?

[whitewingsrich]

We have these things called UAV's now, they seem to be all the rage now. I dont see why. I remember seeing a SR-71 at Milldenhall in '86. b4 it taxied out of the 'barn' it was in there was an all mighty bang from the ignition system lighting each engine. When it did its fly by there was another great bang, green flame from the ignition and i remember the commentator calling out to the crowd ' ladies & gentlemen don't be alarmed the plane is in no danger'

[brianslcut]

Yes there is. It is called the Aurorua. I have not seen it, but i have seen ittake off in the midle of the night at Hill A.F.B.. When it does the whole runway lights up with white light. So loud that it woke me up 15 miles away.

[kotangens]

No there isn't. "Aurora" doesn't exist, it's just a myth.

What the U.S. (as well as other countries) have are unmanned aerial vehicles and satellites which can do a similar job as a spyplane, but with less risk of casualties and at lower costs.

[shaftk1]

Why do so many people care so much about the music in these videos? Seems as though a quarter of all comments on you tube are about the music.

[leemyster2]

ty for uploading this 70's documentary

[anguruso]

Military Jets are just welfare for the technologists.

[codyman333]

get new music!

[Parthamasiris]

Magnificent plane. Why don't they build a new version?

[zmatt]

Why would they need to? If they had a need for an aircraft that performs anywhere near the sr-71 they would just keep it in service.

Not that I wouldn't love to see another amazing aircraft that outperforms the blackbird.

[stand52]

Z-Matt... Thanks a million for the Vid, which my dad recorded from TV onto cassette and gave me,but this digital format is Way better! What an inspirational airplane, which gave a few Russians a bit of pause to consider their destiny. The Russkies fired more than 900 missiles at the Blackbirds, and didn't get a single one!! I herewith rest my case. My brother got involved in a study for hypersonic aircraft, where they were looking at Mach 6+ Part of a study done at the Goddard Space Flight cent

[llandudnoboy]

@zmatt

Prabably due to the many sattelites in space we have no need for such gorgeous looking aeroplanes that can spy on the enemy.

Thankfully they have kept several in operational condition even though there is no need of them at the current time.

[jdmifsud14]

@zmatt supposedly (rumor has it) that a replacement for the SR71 is being made behind the scenes.

[zmatt]

@jdmifsud14 Why replace a airplane that has been retired for 20 years, Since it was determined that there is no need for it's capabilities.

[jdmifsud14]

@zmatt again I have only heard rumors, I know its been 20 years but do you recall the NASA testing of a hypersonic Scram Jet? well supposedly the replacement to the SR71 which is the SR91 Aurora is supposed to faster and much smaller, very similar to a ScramJet that can go hypersonic. again there are rumors. here is a video that sort of adds to the rumor: /watch?v=KgCXupNrwHM I'm not a conspiracy theorist but if this is true then the SR91 would be a breakthrough beyond any vehicle made by man!

[spydroid]

One word. UAV ... WE now have tactical planes that can cover an are with no lose to human pilots and no sensitive equipment lost if the plane is downed.

[LOCKHEED2011]

yes but there are disadvantages to uavs, manned aircraft have a better strategic advantages

[bali105]

It was a spyplane, we dont need a new one because of advancements in satellite imaging, we can see very high resolution pictures with satellites without loss of human life or a high dollar aircraft.

[csteffee]

The problem with satellites was proven when India gained nuclear power. USA didn't know they were so close because they had figured out when the satellite would be above them at that time they would simply shutdown the reactors so no plume would show up on imaging. With the SR-71 there is no set schedule so you can "look in" on anyone at any time.

[stand52]

Very astute CST, the Russians were very good at knowing when the Yankee satellites would be passing overhead, but a Blackbird could happen along at any time. Candid Camera, so to speak... Smile Sergei!! No bulletts or bombs just yet, but it would make them wonder if that might be arranged fairly quickly, should the need ever arise. As in *Surprise*!!

[Sennot1]

Because we could?

[kapquarfa]

@Parthamasiris America right now is in extreme debt, and creating a brand new stealth plane project would be a George Bush idea

[dsemTube]

@Parthamasiris I imagine it's because satellites do it cheaper than R&D for a new type of recon jet.

[spencnaz]

Get over it clown. If you don't like the sound just turn it off.

[unsound64]

You would expect this music in pornmovies