Superjet of the CIA: Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird walkaround

[amma777]

I'm curious, how did this museum score a SR-71 Blackbird? Isn't this the only Blackbird displayed outside the US. They have one at Warner Robins AFB in GA not too far from where I live. Otherworldly to say the least.

[chunder123]

they should of kept it a secret. Now smart people are gonna realize that they have more top secret aircraft flying around at twice the speed of this.

[brandonel12]

The U.S. owns this plane, not the U.K.

[lightning1975]

We know. They own almost everything else in that hangar too.

[8ballbum]

lol i love the b52 in there i was there yesterday at the 2008 show i even have my fs2004 duxford airstrip modded and the b52 there ( me flying it)

[TheOriginalBlue62]

Just remembered something. Some toy company actually reproduced plastic scale replicas of the Blackbird before she was officialy released to the public. A family friend got one for his nephew because 'it looked really neat and futuristic'

He thinks it was Matchbox but since that was 30-40 something years ago

[777jimi777]

I was there 2 days ago. standing next to it is amazing! Very mysterious aircraft to be around.

[TheOriginalBlue62]

I can't take 4 minutes of this.....I. Want. One.

Cruising at Mach 3 (speculation of even faster but I doubt that), higher than any other airbreathing plane. Yep.

Now if only it could be armed....

[altebo]

Then you should go shopping for a YF-12 :)

Hope you have a platinum club card!

[TheOriginalBlue62]

Eh, I'll stick with the Blackbird. At leats it made it past the prototype stage (Y in designation generally= prototype craft)

Actually I once speculated in a debate about the possibility of an internal weapons bay on the SR-71....we figure the speed would rip 'em off....so for a fictional recc/strike varient it had to drop down the subsonic to release ordinance.

[iaintg0t0ne]

the video is fine and dandy and all but the cia never got/used the sr-71 (thay used the older versons when that did have them and even then thay we're all USAF pilots)

[lightning1975]

Yes, but what I meant though as it's design was instigated by the CIA. Withiut them, it would never have been built.

[iaintg0t0ne]

your right, but the USAF totaly ran the aircraft ;)

[bryjb10]

Although the M-21 a varant of the Sr-71 used to carry a drone for the CIA. I heard a rumor they did test with some weapons but later concluded it was impossible due to the speeds. Boeing Aerospace museum has one of the last M-21's.

[MajorLiteral]

@iaintg0t0ne What do you mean they never used the SR-71? It went on sortie's almost every single week of its life!

[TravisBickle2007]

Truly an amazing aircraft! If that aircraft came out today for the first time, people would say that it's such a futuristic aircraft. Yet, it is over 40 years old!

[blox2006]

thats the sr-71 at duxford aviation museum in cambridge i went there and you can actually touch the plane

[pratoriann]

too bad you got nice pictures but theyre streaming soo fast we cant see shit

[bestamerica]

SR-71 is the best beautifully america plane in the world,,

ussr russia is a lousy plane, fail copy, and loser,,

i never want ussr russia touch america SR-71 plane,,

i don' t like ussr russia plane is a MIG-25,,

MIG-25 is a very poor, stink, short life, ugly, and escaped to in japan,,

[spawnofuamenti]

Hey bestamerica! Can you try typing and speaking like a normal human being? The way you type is embarrassing, especially to America. It's people like you that make America look retarded to every nation.

[DancingSpiderman]

I wouldn't worry too much about him. Mental retardation is universal. Every country on Earth has their fair share of retards.

I would like to hump the fuselage of that airpane. In private.

[johnnybravo1979]

LOL!!! I'll take seconds

[DancingSpiderman]

In Los Alamos, New Mexico there is a surplus megastore called The Black Hole. Every imaginable item surplused from scientific projects from Los Alamos National Laboratories is up for sale there. In the front yard there was a casing for a missile. As I banged the tip of the missile with my hand, I asked the proprietor "hey, can I hump your bomb?"

[SgtCasper]

Nice aircraft, nico song, but a boring video :(

[lightning1975]

I know! It's too long and my photo editor was crap. I might pull this and make a better one with movie maker. sorry.

[TheFeralMonk]

Now that's getting high in a hurry!