I love how they have Ice on the windshields when it's 400 degrees. On the inside of the pane. But seriously, the SR-71 is one of the greatest feats of engineering of all time. It's a fucking perfect work of art.
No, it is indeed the inside at that temperature, where the outside was even hotter. In fact, the pilot's suits had cooling systems on top of the cooling systems for the cockpit, in case the cockpit ones failed. This was thought redundant until the cockpit cooling indeed failed and one pilot watched as his laminated charts STRAPPED TO HIS THIGHS curled and blackened, and smoke rose from the tiny fuzzy loose fibers on his suit. Brian Shul, SR-71 pilot and author of Sled Driver, of which I own an autographed copy, told how he once had to hold his hand intermittently to the cockpit window to warm it up due to an issue with his suit causing his hand to nearly freeze to the point of frostbite. Below you will find a testimony from a pilot under "Bon Appetit" where he says that with all of the suit's insulation, he could still only hold his hand against the cockpit window for mere seconds before it became too hot. books.google.com/books?id=rvT4HJkpfM4C&pg=PA36&lpg=PA36&dq=sr71+glass+heat+inside&source=bl&ots=c5XBECZ7C3&sig=q3et04f0VP8wD43LU9b4d1j-Jpg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjQyuDtisDQAhXj24MKHWUABd0Q6AEIJDAB#v=onepage&q=sr71%20glass%20heat%20inside&f=false
Yup... and still the Blackbirds (all models) are a marvel of engineering... with pen and paper. Kelly should be proud of what Lockheed achieved, a plane that even 60 years later holds the record speed, and made the Eurofighter, Rafle, Mirage, Concorde possible, as well as the B1-B bomber. Loved the A-10 model on the Intrepid museum... so smooth in design, so big and imposing, made all the other planes pale in comparison.
+Ian Garrett D-21 isn't a blackbird :) that's the drone carried on top of the M-21. therefore this one isn't an M-21 either. The one in the game has to be an A-12 due to the timeplace the game is set in as the SR-71 didn't enter service until 1966ish.
when this first came out, I thought the getting in the Blackbird part looked real as fuck. I came to this video to relive that moment. only now the graphics look shitty to me lol. my expectations on graphics keep getting higher...
ProneFreak117 that actually was fake. In real life you climb in and there is a guy up there to help you in and strap you in and connect all the hoses to the suit. Takes a few minutes.
And the engines dont just fire and immediately take off, they also required a start cart with a huge engine just to move enough air through the engines to start.
Didn't know they did that as a rule but it makes sense. SR-71s leak fuel when on the ground. That's because materials generally expand as temperatures increase, and the difference between the temperature of the airframe at cruising speed vs on the ground was so extreme that they had to design the plane such that there was space for the frame to expand and actually create a seal when at cruising speed in the air. No material could be designed at the time that sufficiently reduced this expansion-versus-temperature rate. So it makes sense to only load enough fuel to take off and link up with a tanker, instead of leaking half a tank between fueling and takeoff. Gives you an idea of how insanely fast this thing flew for its time, hell, even by modern standards. The SR-71 was so freaking badass.
@@xChemistryFTWx the actual reason was that the bird did not have any flaps or speed brakes. so if they had to land shortly after takeoff, they would have not been able to land
I'm obsessed with the hardware in this plane. the back seat is so sick. This plane was going so fast it literally almost matched the rotational speed of the planet. and the camera could monitor what was on the ground with crystal clear accuracy. its too bad they retired this plane, it could have been utilized in very specific areas. oh well
Even if it is a game, real life pilots that see these scenes must feel that ''home'' moment. Being a pilot and someday managing to at least be selected to fly one of these beasts is more than feeling accomplished.
Unlike every other vehicle where you had to lay off on the throttle to conserve fuel, there was only one way the SR71 was able to conserve its fuel; go faster, go higher.
You have to do it on an SR71 because the engines are only designed to run when the plane has reached a certain velocity. So a cold start on the runway is required to jump-start the engines by using an external air source. A lot of fuel gets used up until the plane is airborne after which it requires an immediate air to air refueling.
@@burzum8312 the main reason it requires a refueling after take off is because they never fill the tanks in the ground. The are only around 50% full. Any more would increase the take off velocity and cause unnecessary stress on the landing gear
@@thekrieger2959 Yeah, the canon is really cool. :) I also like playing the Ace Combat games and the Splinter Cell games. :) I'm a fan of strategy and hypothetical Warfare. :) I also like to Program, so Cyber Warfare is of special interest, as well as Uechi-Ryu, a form of Karate I take. :)
I’m a pilot and I can confirm that you do your walk around, engine startup, runup and jump in your plane mere seconds before you takeoff. All on an active runway.
I don’t know why but I get so hyped when they are just listing off the take off protocol. “Copy KAD my sky” “We have velocity” And “gears away” get me every time We are away
God the nostalgia.. Honestly the best COD game ever, maybe with the exception of MW2 imo. The zombies and everything, revolutionary. Imma play this on my PS3 later for sure.
"The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird. An advanced, long-range strategic reconnaissance aircraft, capable of Mach 3 and an altitude of eighty-five thousand feet!" -Alucard, Hellsing Abridged
The guy who talks for Captain Mosley in this scene, Brian Bloom, also talks for Captain Reyes in Infinite Warfare, and as the Rangers announcer in MW2's mumtiplayer
My favorite part was when you switched to your pistol and emptied the mag into your squad mate while the enemy stood next to you beating you with his gun.
The black bird looks like something out of this world and it is really cool, but it was creepy and it looks like aliens would use, especially because of the sound track.
"K.A.D. confirm refuel with KC-135 in Sector Bravo Six Niner" i just found out that the blackbird took off with amost no fuel cuz the titanium plates are not sticked together and they would connect themselves at high temperatures while in flight, so the fuel would just leak during take off and it would refuel with another plane at the sky
Actually the SR-71 took off with about 40,000 lbs of fuel not because of the leaks, which are referred to by Drips Per Minute (DPM). Each known drip point had an acceptable DPM, if below the acceptable level the plane could fly, if above DPM no flight. The limited load was due flight instability and a potential return to the FOB. Once airborne the plane would meet up with a tanker and fill up and be more stable at higher speed with a full load
The salute is so badass, this game shows you it all, the grime and the glory of serving your nation. You’re been through hell and you’ll keep doing it, you earn the rank of Veteran in the meta narrative.
Enter...the Lockheed-Skunkworks SR-71A Strategic Reconnaissance Plane, nicknamed as the *"Blackbird".* On the ground, it may look ugly and leaks a lot of fuel like a sieve. But when cruising at high altitude at THREE times the speed of sound, all those leaks would seal, and the titanium airframe would expand, dries up, the plane leans into the wind, and *flies like a bat outta hell!!* Imagine yourself being amongst the elite pilots to fly this amazing bird, designed in the 60s with no computers, but only....slide rulers and capable of outrunning Soviet surface to air missiles and high speed fighter interceptors. The intro... February 1968, pre-dawn, an airbase in the Far East. The sky brightens over the airfield, the flight line primed. A single SR-71 Blackbird sits on the tarmac, surrounded by ground crew. Through the mist, dressed in pressure suit and helmet, you start the long walk to your 'Sled', feeling nothing short of invincible. An average Monday morning for you; high-calorie breakfast, weather brief, mission brief, kit draw and fit, walk, pre-flight. Takeoff, meeting up with a tanker to refuel in midair, climb high like a homesick angel, and spy in the skies behind the Iron Curtain. Them missiles the Soviets have? Try it, boys. *"We accelerate and leave you behind."* SR-71 Blackbird pilots. One of a kind. A machine becoming a reminder of such technological and aeronautical prowess that the United States had advanced during the cold war.
Before I played this mission I did research on the SR-71 and fell in love with the aircraft we built it with the titanium we bought from the USSR from the shell companies the the CIA created then I played this mission I truly felt like a badass “piloting” this gorgeous aircraft we should repurpose it as a strategic strike bomber
I love the scheduling for refueling as the pilot gets in the cockpit. The SR-71 couldn't take off efficiently with a full tank! True to life... Except for the ice on the 550 degree F window.
@General Goldy Semper Fi future Marine Yeah but I think the black bird is too small too have enough fuel capacity to stay in space that much snice theyll have to use rockets instead of the jet engine
@General Goldy Semper Fi future Marine Do you think the SR-72 which lockheed annouceded that their developing is already in service but we don't know about it yet?
They got most of it right, however we did not have "live camera" feeds with night vision in the late 60s, nor would we have broadcasted live on radio from one. Also, blackbird taxied out to the runway and didn't request takeoff clearance the second they sat in the cockpit. But the kc 135, etc. was spot on.
Unique moments like this are what FPS games need. Shake up the formula a bit and show other aspects of the military. It doesnt all have to be infantry and like... A fighter or ac 130
The SR71 was so fast that the pilot just had to speed up to evade Soviet anti-air defenses. That’s a really cool fact that I wish was shown or referenced in this mission.
I just noticed something... during that walkout to the Blackbird, you hear tower guide some planes across the taxiways. Is it my imagination or am I hearing around 1.35 "right bravo, short of alpha hotel, behind the Airbus"? Makes me wonder where they got the audio from, seeing as how Airbus wasn't founded until 1968 and didn't produce their first bird until 1972. You'd think with a budget like this game had that they could at least fake up some audio. This really breaks immersion for us aviation nuts.
Yeah, and also it always bugged me how in this scene no one even straps the pilots into their seats, not even the pilots themselves.(even though they cant do it themselves on account of the helmet)
Well they didn't have infrared video cameras and air-to-ground communications either, but they're "Black Operations" so they didn't really "exist" so anything could have happened:)
+The Puncakian Basically, I think OP was over-analyzing because I was thinking the same thing as him until I forgot it's called Black ops for a reason.
The SR-71 had no real-time video capability. It flew one mile every 2 seconds. It wouldn't be able to loiter over dudes on the ground like this. Turning radius was something of 80 nautical miles. Check out the interview with forner pilot Col Richard Graham. He explains the cockpit and tells some stories that I feel this game fails to capture.
This plane used to take a photo of some straetegic target like SAM site. but this COD mission make it looks like Modern UAV tracking realtime unit operation lul. btw COD done great to demonstrate cold war intellegence war.
No SR-71 did real time radio updates. It was able to take pictures yes, but it was also able to take video and relay information to base. In other words, if the Major up in the blackbird see's something, you will know 5 minutes ahead of time. Now we have recon drones for this. The plane you're thinking of though is the U-2.
What I never understood is why Soviet soldiers would be using a FAMAS. In 1968 it has barely started to be designed, and wasn't even in service with the French military yet, never mind an enemy power. I guess the same thing would go for the AUG, this is about a decade too early that also. I guess they just wanted to add some cool weapons into the game?
