Sr-71 Blackbird Documentary Part 2

On the first of may 1965 an American plane designated YF-12a set 4 world records one for sustained altitude and three for speed including a mark of 2070 mph.

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• sr71
• sr-71
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• great
• planes
• usaf
• usa

[wnowak1]

music is annoying

[Krukester]

Chalkboard at 5:43

Feb 17 - Aircraft Complete

Feb 18 - Aircraft put down (unknown)

Feb 18 - Feb 22 - Engineering (unknown)

Feb 23 - Feb 25 - Unknown

Feb 26 - 4:20 AM - Move out to Area 51.

[Dbusdriver71]

@mauricioalfredo83 It is just propaganda. The soviets claimed many things about their fighter aircraft. When their MIGs werent falling out of the sky at some airshow they were being shot down in record number over the middle east. No SR-71 was lost to enemy action, including MIG-25 Foxbats. To this day, the soviets still can't accept america produced an aircraft they couldn't shot down.

[mauricioalfredo83]

everything was fine until propaganda about U2 when MiG25 fly faster and higher...still the Blackbird its one of the coolest ones :)

[musiclover3928]

The SR-71 was the succesor of the YF-12. However, the YF-12 was an armed interceptor. SR-71 was a recoinassance aircraft with no armament.

[Antifaith29]

@JesperA86 If you say so champ. There are alot more up there now than there used to be. Having spent 22 months in Astan i can tell you we used imagery almost every day, it's a little different to the 60's,70's and 80's my friend.

[JesperA86]

@Antifaith29 Oh, and the main reason spysattelites isnt the prefered way of spying: A spysatelite trajectory is to predictable, an airplane is 100% unpredictable, an enemy cant guess what time, height, speed an airplane is spying on. When developing the SR-71 USA had to roll the airplane back into the hangar when a passing russia spysatelite was closing in on the area....so no, satelites is not the main usage for spying....

[JesperA86]

@Antifaith29 No, sattelites does not do the job today.....even if there where thousands and thousands of spysatelites there still could take over 24 hours before any satelite is over the area you want to spy on, and even then, maybe you dont get a solid picture, and have to wait until the next satelite is over the area. Way to long time for spying, to much is happening in that timeframe. Airplanes is still today the most used way of spying.....

[Antifaith29]

@kimura2Loc they dont need spy planes anymore so probably nothing like this. Sattelites do the job now. Still, theres bound to be somerthing interesting.

[votran333]

The music that starts at about 6:00 sounds like Mortal Kombat 1 intro screen.

[MrDannytrance]

Did some1 just add this music in???sounds like it!!

[kimura2Loc]

50's technology, just imagine what Lockheed is up to now? i mean Lockheed Martian corp.