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@kingbrutusxxvi Год назад

He didn't say it was still being used 60 years later. He said 60 years later no plane had broken the SR-71's records. The plane was, indeed, retired and had its last flight in 1999.

@adammaynard5683 Год назад

That’s what the government wants you to believe😂😅😂

@LionKing-ys6el Год назад

He already pointed that out at the end of the video aye bud

@dude-us9gy Год назад

Yeah for sure. And I mean once satellite’s in orbit became popular the need for a super high flying fast spy plane became kinda in their eyes obsolete. In a way. I think without question if they needed to with todays tech they could make a spy plane that would beat this for sure but no need to. But damn this plane is pretty impressive this was made way back then damn impressive

@scotthill1600 Год назад

@@adammaynard5683 yes bc they want to use a blackbird instead of checking the 170+ satellites just the us air force has

@runrafarunthebestintheworld Год назад

He said both. LoL

@HistoryNerd808 Год назад

Real Engineering's video on the Blackbird, explaining how it was built and the things they had to do with it is really good as well. It's insane that it's a 60 year old design and yet still stands out, even after its retirement.

@rg20322 Год назад

Think about the fact of all of this innovation and technology designed with slide rules mostly and simple genius. It's unbelievable what people can accomplish when pressed to their limits to break the boundaries.

@anthonywissell7002 Год назад

The same can be said about the Rocketdyne F1 rocket engines, and indeed the entire Saturn V rocket, designed in the same way. An incredible era or innovation.

@LancerX916 Год назад

They retired the blackbird about 20 years ago. But it is still the fastest plane ever created to this day. I remember as a kid in the 80s seeing the blackbird fly over my city in California when it was coming home from a mission. They are super loud.

@cameron7918 Год назад

You should watch the speech by Brian Shul titled "sled driver: flying the worlds fastest jet." As well as the LA speed story. He was severely burned from a crash, beat all odds and became one of the few to fly the SR-71. He talks about what it was like and how he took the rarest photos of it. He is an inspiration and an American hero.

@bobdobb9017 Год назад

Kelly Johnson was the genius who designed the SR-71 at Skunkworks. It was designed with gaps in its airframe that leaked fuel before the heat expanded its plates to close the gaps. Thats why they fueled it on the runway just before it took off. The actual speed of the Blackbird?…probably not what they say. The man who designed the signaling radar for the plane was…my father.

@starshoot3269 Год назад

wow, on the video they are reacting to I saw someone who said their dad was the lead enginer for the sr-71 engines. you guys should meet

@markhine3232 Год назад

When i was in okinawa in the mid 70s, i watched from my airfield at kadena Air Base, one of these take off. It used almost all the runway and then went into a vertical climb and was gone in like 5 seconds. They had a name for it over there. Something like HABU OR HABOO. Had some mystical or otherworldly meaning. One awesomely amazing aircraft. Nice react here. Gods blessing on the two of you

@markhine3232 Год назад

Oh yeah. I was the 1000th like!! Dont know why that made me happy!!!

@calebsloan8531 Год назад

Rumor has it that the U.S. is working on developing the blackbirds successor, the SR-72. Supposedly it will be capable of going Mach 5+ and being fully mission capable.

@chroniccomplainer3792 Год назад

Sr71 is the most impressive machine ever built. Thats obviously just my opinion, but that plane is mind boggling. Cant imagine riding in one

@donwolfe6071 Год назад

60 years still holds the speed records

@mikesmicroshop4385 Год назад

He didn't say that they were still being used 60 years later, he said that 60 years later they are still the fastest air-breathing plane ever built!

@jdluntjr76226 Год назад

He didn’t say it was still being used 60 years later - but 60 years later no other aircraft can do what the SR71 could

@brandonboulton2776 Год назад

They didn't even mention how the aircraft skin would heat and stretch Soo much, that the aircraft would leak fuel when it cooled down after flight. It took a set of carbide ballz to fly these. Magnificent aircraft.

@DaleSheltonsPage Год назад

My dad was one of the original cadre of Pilots back in ‘65.

@Jskew Год назад

Let me very clear. This was the most AMAZING plane ever engineered ever. It was simply magic. Much love and keep on keepin on. PS. I know someone who worked on this project and the engines didn't even work right until they hit mach 4.

@runrafarunthebestintheworld Год назад

I little bit of an error at the beginning but ok.

@mikeciboroski3849 Год назад

It's the only plane that used less fuel at full speed than it did at half speed

@billbryant9995 Год назад

Notice in the video he quoted the CRUISING speed of mach 3.2/3.3. The top speed was classified, but I've heard from people in the program that it was between 5.5 and 6. They stopped carrying missiles like the YF12 did because there simply wasn't a need for them, there wasn't anything that could catch them. 60 years and it still holds the speed record...but they continued to make the plane faster and stopped reporting the speed numbers as the public really didn't need to know. This plane is pure magic.

@punkem733 Год назад

It was nowhere near those speeds. Are you out of your mind? LOL the plane would have shredded itself, and those engines weren't made for those speeds.

@billbryant9995 Год назад

@@punkem733 - think what you want, unless you're "out of your mind." As I said, I was quoting people in the Air Force that worked in the program.

@TheGhostOf2020 Год назад

There was (still is I think) a SR-71 you can see in person at the National Air and Space Museum in DC. It’s bigger than you’d think, and boy is it a beauty. Skunkworks know how to make a stunning aircraft.

@sharkhunter2018 Год назад

its still there, though not the DC location. its at their annexed location in Chantilly, Va next to Dulles airport. it was flown there and handed over to the Smithsonian. that particular bird holds the current coast to coast record of 67 min 54 secs

@Chibbs.E Год назад

There's quite a few around still. All in museums. You can see one down the street from Skunkworks in Palmdale, CA. I miss working there sometimes.

@riothero313 Год назад

This thing might be my favorite machine ever invented.

@tommartin4501 Год назад

We have a sr-71 at are air museum in oregon and it has very small cockpit.

@m2hmghb Год назад

If you see an SR 71 next to a B52 it's quite an interesting comparison.

@k.martin4261 Год назад

My father had been one of the lucky men to be a crew chief on the blackbird in the air force. You and your viewers should go to u tube and play the story called The L.A speed story told by one of it's pilots. It will have you lol. It was shot at over 4000 times and never hit. So proud of him and all other members of our military. My husband and I made a 8ft long model for him to put in his front yard. Best looking plane ever. Thank you for the tribute to the plane and it's crew. There are a lot of meat facts about the blackbird.

@christophermckinney3924 Год назад

Becasue the blackbird heated up so much in flight, it's panels didn't touch together while on the ground and it leaked fuel and oil onto the ground. When it's speed got up the heat expanded the joints so it didn't leak and it would be refueled in the air.

@INDYANDY4C Год назад

Millie, why look so much better lately! Is the sunlight so much greater? Do you have a window near you? Wow, you’re +10x!

@ginasarmina4728 Год назад

My all-time favorite jet!!

@christianoliver3572 Год назад

Turbo Ramjet would have been the perfect name for an early 80s punk band

@chrisd7047 Год назад

The actual top altitude is still classified, as far as I'm aware. Anecdotally, the top altitude is well over 100k feet (30500 meters). Stories about them get passed around the Air Force.

@Prisoner..24601 Год назад

The X Jet in the X-Men movies was modeled after the Black Bird.

@HRConsultant_Jeff Год назад

U-2 was in the late fifties and early 60's Gary Powers was shot down but survived and was held prisoner.

@graybryan9521 Год назад

I've seen there on display at airshows and I've seen one take off after the airshow ended. I was at Seattle Control on a tour once (as a recreational pilot) and I was paired up with a controller looking at a radar that covered western Washington and part of Oregon. With one sweep of the radar you would see a Cessna and it barely moved, you would be a United Airlines flight and by the next sweep it would have move a little more and the a SR 71 happened to come on the radar screen where I was able to observe and in two sweeps of the radar it went from the top right to the bottom left of the radar and by the 3rd sweep, it was off the radar. It was pretty impressive.

@stevedietrich8936 Год назад

There are SR-71's in a couple of US museums. I know that there is one in the Pima Air and Space Museum in Tucson, Arizona, and I know there is one in Washington, DC. I suspect that there is also one in Dayton, Ohio.

@adriannecote5319 Год назад

Blackbird flying in the dead of night. The Beatles wrote and recorded that song; it is a banger. I saw the Blackbird do an after burner flight at an air show at Beale Air Force base in 1987. So cool! That was the day I realized I was pregnant (I nearly fainted). Memorable day in many ways.

@kz03jd Год назад

Cool thing about the SR-71 and it's engines is it became MORE fuel efficient the faster it went. So it was more economical to fly at Mach 3.2 than say Mach 2.5.

@briankgarland Год назад

Used to watch them take off at night in Okinawa. Unforgettable.

@CMarkem Год назад

1:55 Is the Nevada Test Site, about 60 miles from where I live in Las Vegas, bomb droped in the early 1950s before they understood the risk of exposure to troops in the area, and many were in lines to watch the test with no idea of the risks.

@RicardoRamirez-us7hf Год назад

To this day the black bird is still one of the best planes in flight. I also love the P-51 mustang though it is no longer in use. Thank you the was an outstanding video. Oh Millie love the change of hair. Again thank you.

@runrafarunthebestintheworld Год назад

Her hair looks sporty. Just like the straight hair higher pony tail.

@bernardh4635 Год назад

Today there was an WW2 air show in Dallas Tx. You can search it on youtube but its pretty sad. Two planes collided mid-air too low in altitude for anyone to eject.

@buckhorncortez Год назад

Was one of the planes an SR71? What does an airshow crash in Dallas have to do with this video?

@CaddyJim Год назад

You enjoyed this you should do a video on the *Valkyrie* much bigger plane with six engines & nearly as fast

@ael2997 11 месяцев назад

They have one at the imperial war museum at Duxford such an impressive aircraft

@yugioht42 Год назад

One of these is in the national air and space museum in Washington DC as a testament of human engineering and pushing the limits of design. The first supersonic jet is also there. Even the solar powered plane is there which flew successfully too. We test new things and always we know.

@donwolfe6071 Год назад

You both will enjoy hearing the LA speed story about the blackbird

@richdiddens4059 Год назад

A few more interesting facts: The A-12/SR-71 were designed in the late 1950's using slide rule technology. Before computers. Due to heat expansion at full speed the SR-71 grows somewhere between 2 and 6 inches in length. The engines are known to grow 6 inches in length and 2 inches in diameter. Due to allowance for expansion before take off it leaks fuel like mad, maybe gallons per minute. As the skin heats up in flight it expands and seals itself. And the fuel is so specialized you can't light it on fire. You can put a match out in it. It takes compression in the engine to ignite it IIRC. The Soviets knew that its shape helped reduce its radar signal but knew that wasn't enough. President Carter mentioned the special radar absorbing coating in a speech. He thought the Soviets already knew about it. They didn't. The Air Force was extremely ticked off.

@borisratnik9032 Год назад

I remember that. It was just before the election. Jimmy Crack Corn - uh, excuse me, I mean Jimmy Carter - should have been shot for that. He was a former naval officer, and he had no f*cking excuse! Reagan was tooooooo sofffffft.

@The_Seal77 Год назад

Here is the funny thing about the Titanium used on the SR-71 we bought from the Soviet Union.

@jw6921 Год назад

Tibit for you the SR71 was based at RAF Mildenhall from 1979 to 1991

@RobertMememe Год назад

When an SR-71 retired it was flown from California to Virginia just south of DC over 3000 miles in less than an hour. I wen and saw that plane in a museum a few moths ago and it is still an amazing plane

@johnlazlo1908 Год назад

Pratt&Whittney built the engines for that plane. I live about 15 mins from Pratt.

@docmarty809 Год назад

They have a SR71 at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in Washington DC. It looks bad ass up close.

@akfreed6949 Год назад

Here's something to think about . The SR-71 is still publicly the fastest plane that goes somewhere PAST Mach 3.5 . But it's been retired . They'll take it out of retirement from time to time for some experiment but it's retired . The American government wouldn't retire it unless they had a replacement . And they have a few replacements . There's a rumored SR-72 that looks like it . And there's several others that are so fast and can fly farther without a need for refueling like the SR-71 needed . The American government has several different long-range fighter/bombers that are so fast they make the SR71 look like a glider . They were funded from Ronald Reagan's STAR WARS defense system .

@user-tb2jy9lu3d Год назад

The USA is also presently working on the SR-72 "Son of Blackbird". It is to reach around 4,200mph, or about Mach 5.6. Like the SR-71 Blackbird that was so fast that it was overhead and gone before Russia could even get a missile launched at it, the same will be with the SR-72. While the S-400 does have missiles of varying ranges up to about 250 miles or so at a speed just under Mach 6, again it is more so the fact that upon passing over the land the SR-72 would already be going at top speed. Not that we really need such surveillance anymore given that satellites nowadays are ridiculously good. However, we also intend to put hypersonic missiles on the hypersonic SR-72.

@aweiserbud Год назад

There's an SR72 in the works, although I bet it's been built long ago

@Sparrowhawk97 Год назад

SR71 is retired. None are still flying even at NASA. What the video was talking about is that the SR71 still holds records as the fastest "air breathing" plane in the world, the space shuttle and X15 aren't air breathing. It has been announced that Lockheed Martin is building an SR72 referred to as "Son of Blackbird". It will be a hypersonic, mach 5+, drone which will finally surpass the Blackbird. However, the Blackbird will still hold the record for the fastest "manned" air breathing plane since SR72 will of course be unmanned.

@williambranch4283 Год назад

Sr-72 being built now.

@yambo59 Год назад

Its not hard to believe after flying 60 years under such extreme conditiions that there could be stress failures of the airframe, thats a long time to endure those speeds and altitudes

@joewoods9963 Год назад

The best part is we needed titanium to build it but the U.S. didn't have enough. The Soviet Union had more than enough so we set up multiple shell companies to buy it from them. Then we built the aircraft from the metal we purchased from them to spy on them. Brilliant!

@probably_afk Год назад

omg I was just writing this same comment!! You beat me by 3 minutes.

@Blandannoyance Год назад

The plane could out-fly it's own airframe. Some accounts indicate that the plane was flying at 2,200 miles per hour at 50% throttle. Full throttle would cause the plane to tear itself apart.

@octopusjesus9100 Год назад

What he didn't mention is the Blackbird reached a max of Mach 3.9 and an altitude of 95,000 ft!

@runrafarunthebestintheworld Год назад

Did you notice the little skipped edited part? I think they skipped over that part because it probably got too long. Pfft

@arclight545 Год назад

At the time of production, the one major source of titanium was the Soviet Union. The CiA crested shell companies to buy the metal. The Soviet Union never knew

@anthonyramirez9003 Год назад

I can't believe I'm at the age where I'm going to comment. You young kids are great, I love your reactions vids. Yes.. "young kids"!!!!

@m2hmghb Год назад

Why didn't they say that the titanium was sourced from the soviet union itself.

@AsianDrag0n Год назад

I’d love to see you guys react to more mustard videos like the blackbird video you watched. Every single video on the mustard channel is very much worth watching, the graphics n visuals r really really good!

@fredalwatkins4506 Год назад

It disintegrated only because it was going so fast for so long. Over heating and metal fatigue happen

@dansunder7minutebeerreview271 Год назад

This plane flew from New York to London in 1 hour and 54 minutes. *drops mic*

@robbieburris2333 Год назад

Worked on that a buddy of mine's dad worked on that airplane he said it was a leaking sieve on the ground. Then I got to learn about how you satellites and how they come over head and they'd scoot everything around while they weren't there.

@benschwader4537 Год назад

You can see one at Duxford

@halicarnassus8235 Год назад

3:33, the video said the 1950s at the point in time you both were watching.

@jayd2517 Год назад

I've seen an SR-71 up close and they are incredibly impressive, even just standing there!!

@jkoll42 Год назад

My favorite plane. The engineering was astounding and this was the mid 60's - it shouldn't have been possible. They glossed over the fact that we had no way to obtain enough titanium ore to make the planes and the CIA set up 3rd world shell companies and actually purchased the ore from the Soviets through these shell companies. It's worth checking out a video on that. We used this plane to spy on USSR but bought the materials to build it from them without them knowing it.

@Stacy55ish Год назад

The SR-71 Blackbird has been retired.

@efxnoise Год назад

The SR71 is still the coolest plane ever made. No weapons, didn't need them. The titanium used to make it, was bought secretly from the Soviet Union, the country it was built to spy on. I was at the Smithsonian in DC a few years ago and took the trip to Virginia to the Udvar-Hazy center. Seeing the Blackbird in person. Also saw the space Shuttle and the Enola Gay(plane that dropped A bomb on Hiroshima)

@carldietz9767 9 месяцев назад

At its speeds a loose or lost small exterior panel could pull the sr 71 out of aerodynamic trim and tear it apart in seconds.

@Valhalrik Год назад

Goes Back to Armor Knights, then Gunpowder! ya

@AttorneyBCollins Год назад

The last flight in 1999. Technology had passed it up. And yet the cell phones in 1999 were still using analog signals! Texting was still in the future with 2G! Still it was an awesome plane. From maximum speed it took it a State or 2 to turn around.

@stevem2601 Год назад

FYI - The Cold War was not just the 70's and 80's. The Cold War was from right after WW2 (1945) to 1991 when the Soviet Union collapsed.

@hannahhoney7906 Год назад

It holds the transcontinental speed record over CONUS. 1990 March 6 1 hr 7 min 53.69 sec West to East Lt Col Ed Yeilding and Lt Col Joseph T. Vida SR-71A Blackbird 61-7972 On delivery flight to the Smithsonian Institution, where the aircraft is now on display at the Smithsonian's Udvar-Hazy center, this SR-71 set the current transcontinental record. Yeilding and Vida crossed the west coast near Ventura, CA and, 2,404.5 miles later, crossed the east coast near Salisbury, MD averaging 2,124.51 mph [10] . This plane is still on display at the SI National Air and Space Museum which you should visit when you get to finally visit. Love the videos ❤

@FuzzyMarineVet Год назад

In 1977, when I was stationed on Okinawa, I got to watch many SR-71s take off and land at Kadena AFB. They were awesome birds!

@michaelgehrke8272 Год назад

I was also stationed in Okinawa and was able to watch the blackbird takeoff.

@BornRandy62 Год назад

I visited my brother in law and Sister over Christmas around that time frame. I was a snot nosed pre teen at the time. We were doing a tour on the flight line when a SR71 came in unscheduled. Military police were all over us . I just held up my base commander permission letter above my head to keep them from snapping the shiny bracelets on me. I still got a special ride back off the flight line in a more comfortable car than the utility van I rode out on

@Daehawk Год назад

Not being used 60 years later...still the fastest air breathing jet ever made still. Holds all speed records. It set a cross country record from east coast to west coast in 64 minutes.

@mikeet69 Год назад

Basic video on SR-71. While it was mentioned briefly I think you missed a big reason it was retired. It took pictures on FILM which had to be developed AFTER it landed before it could be analyzed. So like the video said no real time/live pictures/video. Still an amazing aircraft with even more to the story of the whole family of blackbirds mentioned, the original A-12 CIA aircraft, YF-12 USAF Interceptor, and the SR-71 .

@timothykennedy6804 Год назад

The SR-71 landed at RAF Greenham Common (Newbury Berkshire) in 1984, for an air show. I was stationed there at the time. It had to turn around over Ireland in order to make it's approach.

@CaddyJim Год назад

NO it's NOT still being used it was retired in *1999* because satellites were cheaper to operate & less risk. What the video said was this plane was developed *60yrs* ago and is still the *Fastest Air Breathing Plane* ever created

@susangleason3228 Год назад

As an Air Traffic Controller back in the late 70s, before anyone knew much about them we got a call for an emergency landing. He landed in the dead of night, was immediately surrounded by armed guards and escorted to a hanger. The next night the operation was conducted in reverse. As members of the armed services even we weren't allowed any where near him.

@apex_blue Год назад

You should react to Real Engineering’s video on the Blackbird called the insane engineering of the sr-71.

@bowtiefidenine 8 дней назад

My favorite plane

@uuzd4s 5 месяцев назад

Just Two things, Mach 3 (meaning 3 x the speed of sound) is equal to 2223.3 Miles per Hour (or 3578 Kilometers per hour), to put things into perspective. And secondly, the U.S. didn't have any Titanium sources available within the U.S. at that time, but the Soviets did. So, the Skunkworks (Lockheed Martin) developed several pseudo Manufacturing businesses around the globe to buy soviet Titanium. That Titanium was then secretly sent to America's Skunkworks to build the SR-71 with this new material. So, it was the Soviets that supplied the U.S. w/ the materials to build that plane and they never knew until well after the Official retirement of the SR-71 in the 80's.

@keithcharboneau3331 Год назад

The cold war began in 1945, almost immediately after the conclusion of WWII and lasted till U.S.S.R.'s collapse in 1992, what he said was that more than 60 years after it began flying and 25 years after it's final flight, the SR-71 still to this day holds a long list of records and accomplishments that have yet to be approached.

@dannygrosnick1966 Год назад

Remember the u2 was a 50s and 60s plane

@boosuedon Год назад

The SR 71 could fly MACH 3+ . (Mach 1 = 767.269 mph) Mach 3.2 = 2455 mph. It could fly faster than missiles OR bullets!

@Locke99GS Год назад

They had one of these at the Air Zoo in Kalamazoo Michigan that people could see up close. Massive aircraft, super cool.

@barrygolden9823 Год назад

When you walk into the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum can you guess what the first plane you see is?...... The SR-71 Blackbird!!! I have been there twice and she is beautiful in person!!!

@barrygolden9823 Год назад

Edit: The musuem in Virginia, not DC.

@barrygolden9823 Год назад

Bonus: They also house one of the four remaining space shuttles!!!

@nikkicerrvantez7742 Год назад

Nice merch.

@ScottGenX Год назад

well we still use it.

@JPMadden Год назад

They did not say the SR-71 is still flying 60 years later. It was retired by the military in 1998 and NASA in 1999. The even-older U-2 is still flying, however. The SR-72, an unmanned replacement of the SR-71, is currently in development. The Cold War is considered to have lasted from shortly after the end of World War 2 until the fall of Communism and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991-92. It could be argued that the Cold War never really ended but simply quieted down in the 1990s before Vladimir Putin became president of Russia in 2000.

@augl2702 Год назад

They had their own dedicated air-tanker fleet because of the JP7 fuel they used. They could burn up to 44,000lbs of JP7 an hour. The rear tires were silver, because they were imbedded with aluminum. 415psi, 22 ply With todays inflation, the operating cost would be in the neighborhood of $2,000,000 Per Hour to operate. One of the Blackbirds that NASA acquired was used to test certain pieces of early GPS satellite technology.

@vass0922 Год назад

As others have noted there is in Chantilly, VA (30 minutes outside of DC) at Udvar Hazy, a Smithsonian air and space museum. I just saw it a few weeks ago.

@Calico_Jack_ Год назад

The 60 year comment was a reference to its speed and not being beat. Keep up the good videos.

@joannamontana915 Год назад

Thanks for this video. It was pretty interesting. I learned a lot about our military. Tell me are you guys

@BluefootOnEire Год назад

It's not possible to fly higher than the range of anti-aircraft defenses. Reference: "Operation Burn Frost" where a missile, an SM-3 which is still in use today, fired from the USS Lake Erie (CG-70) in 2008 shot down a radar imaging satellite orbiting at or around 250 km above earth. Before that, anti-satellite missiles were launched from airborne F-15s as early as 1984.

@Im-sure Год назад

Uh everyone shoots satellites out of space orbit now…

@CaddyJim Год назад

Gary Powers U2 that was shot down over the Soviet Union in 1960 wasn't flying at its ultimate height it was having problems which made it easier to shoot down. But yes there are many missile systems that can take down the RU-vid today but not every country has those missiles

@yugioht42 Год назад

modern radar can scan up to low earth orbit so nothing really gets away. then satellites can detect everything else. stealth is so important now more than ever.

@BluBlu777 Год назад

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@treystevenson9872 Год назад

You need to check out the story of an SR-71 coming apart in midair around its pilots. The History Guy’s channel has a great video on it. It’s called ‘Fall from an SR-71’.