Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird

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The Lockheed SR-71 was an advanced, long-range, Mach 3 strategic reconnaissance aircraft developed from the Lockheed A-12 and YF-12A aircraft by the Lockheed Skunk Works. The SR-71 was unofficially named the Blackbird, and called the Habu by its crews. Clarence "Kelly" Johnson was responsible for many of the design's innovative concepts. A defensive feature of the aircraft was its high speed and operating altitude, whereby, if a surface-to-air missile launch were detected, standard evasive action was simply to accelerate. The SR-71 line was in service from 1964 to 1998, with 12 of the 32 aircraft being destroyed in accidents, though none were lost to enemy action.

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  • @Davechop54 ..Watching the Habu touch down, the A/C truly does take on the appearance of a hooded corba, a good example of this see vid @ 2:29, then you'll understand the name Habu, which is a black colored corba that lives on Okinawa...THX

  • Plain and simple: The most beautiful Airplane ever build.

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  • @sara60891 idiot how is the fastest aircraft in the world a piece of shit. you dumbass

  • POS

  • Swear Black Ops copied from this hella from 4:00 to 5:00

  • @juandenz2008 I would think it's just that if you're married, it shows you can be mature in a lot of ways. Plus, it shows they can be respectful to one another, and handle the relationship of pilot/co-pilot.

  • In b4

    Black C*cks

    Shit, im late

  • I swear to god from 4:50 - 5:02 is the part that black ops getting in the black bird is from

  • I remember seeing this plane once in a while when i was in the AF on okinawa japan;

    i remember one night at around 9pm it took off (dec. 1980) this damn plane just corkscrewed up to what seemed to me 60,000 feet LOL

  • Fastest Aircraft Ever built that gone through service now gone. Replaced by a SO Slow U-2 that is now 50 years in service but still slow.......:D

  • 1:16

  • @juandenz2008 I am wondering the same thing

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