SR-71 Blackbird: World's Fastest Plane Ever Built REACTION | OFFICE BLOKES REACT!! 

The SR-71 was a flying gas tank; so much of it was the fuel it needed.

You should watch “the L.A. Speed Check” story… It is told by a former SR71 pilot… It is hysterical.

The math involved to use the stars along with the rest of the navigation system is incredibly for that time. They were using slide rulers.

In the late 70's one of my neighbors was a retired Blackbird pilot. He held one of the transcontinental speed records.

Was able to see the SR71 at Beale AFB years ago. Incredible plane. At the time, my friend had a Cessna. We were flying out of Truckee, CA. one day. The air traffic controller contacted us and instructed us to clear the airspace immediately. We were over Donner Pass. Found out later the SR71 was over Missouri at the same time. If you get the chance, watch the videos of Brian Shul (SR71 pilot). Amazing man, amazing plane. RIP Brian Shul.

Kelly Johnson - head of LockHeeds Advanced Projects Division ( The Skunk Works ) was probably one of the greatest engeineers of modern times. The Skunk Works were responsible for a large number of planes and other technological developements. The SR-71's did use very early { Stealth } technologies that were capable for the time. The overall design was a part of the [ Stealth ] that was a part of the BlackBirds - in the paint that was applied to the SR-71's contained millions of tiny iron-balls. The purpose of the iron-balls were to absorb radar engergy that was used to detect the SR-71's. So the amount of radar waves that were rerurned to the radar that was emmiting it was less then that was sent out. The design also deflected radar waves upward in various directions to also reduce the amount of radar returned to the source.

The SR-71 Blackbird IS IN SCIENCE-FICTION MOVIES LOL. It is the signature jet used by the X-Men in the X-MEN and DEADPOOL movies, or a modified version of it. It is also referenced by Tony Stark in the first IRON MAN movie on his test flight with the Mk. 2 suit before he paints the suit red and yellow. You can see the HUD display a computerized silhouette of it. "Hey Jarvis. Pull up the SR-71." "Sir, the record for winged altitude flight is 85,000 feet." " Records were meant to be broken."

I think the thing that I find the most mind boggling is that if the government admits the speed and heights that we hear about, then what is it truly capable of that we don’t know about?

Mach 3.2 is roughly 2'193 mph. The heat generated at that speed was very high , so about 97% of each SR-71 was made of Titanium to offset the heat. Ironically all that Titanium came from one supllier - Russia.

Went to the air museum at Hill AFB in Utah. There they had the infamous SR-71 on display, with some info of the records known. Some stuff is STILL classified! Neat look at a plane years ahead of its time.

so cool think it was originally called RS-71 but president lyndon johnson called it SR-71 and it stuck⚛

The SR-71 was designed and built in the 1960's with sliderules before the computers became popular. It has speed records still not matched today. 🇺🇲

I was obsessed with this plane as a kid for a time. Slick model on a stand (actual metal parts, not plastic), posters everywhere, books. Annoyed the shit out of other kids in school talking about it incessantly.

I just finished reading a book about this aircraft. On some missions the crews would watch the sun rise in the west or set in the east, sometimes multiple times. It flew faster than the Earth’s rotation so would outrun the sunset or sunrise until it reduced speed and altitude for refuelling, then catch up to or race away from the sun again.The fuselage heating from friction required cockpit air conditioning as well as for some other systems. On one mission the air conditioning failed in the rear cockpit. It got so hot that the plastic covers on the manuals began to curl and melt. The crewman was protected by the pressure suit.

Watched them take off at night in Okinawa in the 80s. Awesome.

Back in intel school we got to look at one of the huge optical sensors the Blackbird is equipped with. Beautiful tbh

Judging by the thumbnail pic, OB Mike got REALLY EXCITED by watching this one. 😉 It must have been really enjoyable for him. 😉

Current stealth planes have the radar cross-section of a Bumblebee.........

Speaking of James May, he did a program for the BBC titled "James May at the edge of space", where he flew to the top of the atmosphere on a U2, courtesy of the American military. There are 10 min. cuts of this on RU-vid (for example, "James May rides in a U2 spy plane [HQ]"), that you may like reacting to.

I’m Nebraska we have the Stratcom museum and they have one of these hanging from the ceiling right as you walk in.

4:47 Shul also said the plane was still accelerating when he pulled back on the throttle.

The B-2 bomber and that craft in production they showed at the end are NOT very agile at all. They produce so much lift that they're also very difficult to land. They might look like a UFO, but they certainly don't move like one.

Congratulations office blokes this is your 6th video on the SR-71 😂

From what i know, this plane never had any sort of offensive weapon on it, and was not a bomber. that is the B-1 (bone) or the B-2 stealth bomber, or the B-52 of the past, but is still in use today because how many bomb it can hold basically. The Blackbird plane was just used for spying on other countries with photography that could zoom in real close. the Sr-71 was basically retired because satellites in space can do the job much safer and cheaper now.

It's a spooky thing to see in person. I saw it on the deck of the Intrepid. I completely understand why people thought they saw an alien craft in the Nevada desert during tests. That along with the B-2 Spirit and the F-117. (I've also seen a B-2 do a dive towards the area where I was standing. You hear it, but you don't see anything. Then suddenly a giant black triangle just appears when it pulls up over you.)

One of the big reasons the Concord stopped flying was due to noise regulations. Sonic Booms piss off the pensioners. I grew up in California and in my childhood fondly remember the excitement when a military jet would come streaking across the sky and the subsequent boom. Now the only time I get to hear a sonic boom is when a Space X booster lands back at Vandenberg SFB.

pretty sure most everything brian shul said was called into question by his superiors and all the other sr71 pilots, he's the only pilot who got kicked out of the sr71 program

For some reason I was surprised at how small the SR 71 was when I saw it up close and personal. Just one thing that is too trippy. There are certain pictures of this jet that are taken from the front and elevated that makes it look like a black star ship Enterprise. If you look into it you can see what I am talking about. The bridge on the top of the rounded nose along with the nacelles behind on each side.

Loved watching these taxi out from there hangers and takeoff at Mildenhall where they parked our C-130s across from the hangers while we were TDY there in the 80s.

the f117 nighthawk and b-2 are still my favs

There’s a good chance its position as the fastest air breathing jet is going to be passed on relatively soon because of efforts like quarterhorse/dark horse, project mayhem, and the (potential) SR-72. But it may remain the fastest *manned* air breathing jet of all time. Even if that record is the passed on, the fact that it remained the fastest jet in the world for so long is a monument to the talent of its creators.

rest easy UK we have your back

The Concord ticket was $9,500.00 round trip early 1984 price. Held 100 passengers and had bucket seats (unfortunately was not as comfortable as flying on a 747 in first class and cost was about 1/3). You saved approximately 3 hour flying on the Concord JFK-LHR. Had the UK and France not subsidized the A/C it would never have been produced. Note Boeing in the 70s also planned to produce a SST aircraft however they realized that it would not be cost-effective so canceled the program. If I recall correctly they spent some 500 million on the research.

You all should come to the National Museum of the USAF in Dayton, Ohio.

Well, in all fairness mankind has only really been learning about the planet we live on, and the universe were in for the last thousand years, if there’s intelligent life out there that’s been around for 1 million years they very well could be flying here to study us. This is Sr71 blackbird was developed just a matter of 60 years or so after the Wright brothers very first flight. There are hundreds of thousands of stars out there and surely there Hass to be planets somewhere in all of that mix that has created life just like ours has and to me it would be much more shocking to know that there was no other life out there that we were the only little island of life in all of this vast expanse.

Calling Mach 3.5 as "not dad" at 6:05 *is a very gross understatement*

I have a rough idea of what James May meant. I had a Kawasaki Z750S in 2007 that I once ran up to 150 mph for a short distance. I was in a 65-mph zone, so I slowed down to what I thought was about 65 or 70. I looked down and I was doing 100 still. I got down to 65 and felt like I could take a nap. You get so used to it that you're thinking and reacting at that higher speed.

The material use to build the SR-71 was not available in the U.S. so the CIA got it from the USSR and shipped to the US thinking it was being used to make pizza ovens. If they only new.

When I was growing up in the 80s and 90s my parents would bring me and my brothers to the Warner robins air force museum, they had one sitting in there for years. The last time we went in the late 90s it was gone. I'm guessing it moved to another base/museum.

There’s a lot missing about this aircraft. For instance how a lot of the material: titanium that was needed was sourced from USSR. Would be worth checking out the specifics.

The stealth bomber you're thinking of is the B-2 Spirit🙂

RQ180 Global Hawk stealt drone has been operational for some time. There are pictures of it over California and the Philippines.

When we needed pictures of an inaccessible area on the quick, the SR-71 was the solution. On the quick was not in real time. Then satellites progressed to where we had the capability to task orbital assets and have results in real time, so the SR-71's mission went away. There's value in having the capability, but the very high price of delivering and maintaining that capability exceeds the value it can deliver, as decided by the people that make those value judgments. If you visit the US and are in DC, they have an SR-71 on static display at the Smithsonian at Dulles Airport (Udvar-Hazy Museum). Along with acres of other cool stuff, like a full size space shuttle.

Also the amount of disrespect the black bird pilots did to Russians & anyone trying to shoot them down is astounding. Like, imagine challenging someone to a race & they pull away from you while you're in the highest gear

Like @troysteele3589 said they were built in the 60's. No computers only calculators and slide rules. It went from concept to service in twenty months. They had to create new technology to build it. Such as a way to shape and mold the titanium shell. The SR-71 sustained speed of Mach 2.5 heated the exterior over 300°C. Any other metal would have melted. Had to come up with a new type of fuel.

that joke from Daz went under the radar. "B-52 - Shack"

I recently moved to Washington State USA and went to the aerospace museum and a town called McMinnville. Middle of nowhere small town atmosphere and because I hate people That went during COVID at 11:00 on a Tuesday.... Just me and some 1/2 dozen world war II vets volunteering. I broke a few rules... I touched the airplane and That was instantly confused. Doesn't feel like anything my fingers have ever touched. Not metallic. Not like wood. Doesnt feel like glass. Maybe like a smooth rock.... Actually that's the best way to describe it. Very unusual After I realized I didn't hear any noise from touching it curiosity took me another step further and punched it just to see if it made a noise.....zero acoustic return. Just me wishing I didn't just do that cause it hurt but The damn thing made zero noise Punching an SR-71 for science is a bad look so I decided I better buggie before I got in trouble...But it was an interesting and unusual experience. Also cool. Probably stay away from punching it but I would highly recommend finding an exhibit and checking it out It's pretty wicked.

This plane was made before computers as well!

Have some fun. Pull up SR-71 does fly by a tower. Also speed check.

I thought the B-2 Spirit was the successor but I think its actually a bomber not a spy plane. Great video!

I live a couple miles away from the Pima Air and Space Museum.. and they have an SR-71A on display.

sr71 top speed 2200 mph top speed recorded. American X-15 4520 mph top speed recorded as mr freeze would say stay cool bird boy

I refueled this bird twice at RAF Mildenhall. The Chinese and the Russians had/have nothing to compare.

Hey, I was a 202 at RAF shake sans from 1972 to 1976

As admirable as the B-52 is, it’s still just an old fashioned non-stealth bomber. Kinda like an advanced jet propelled B-29.

At ad misleading as it is not the fastest manned aircraft. It is however the fastest jet engine aircraft. As for the Aurora, it is said to utilize what is known as scramjet.

Mach one is the speed of sound, so mach 3.5 is 3 and a half times the speed of sound! If it crashed, would you see it before you heard it?

One SR-71 did New York to London in 1 hour, 55 minutes. That is an hour faster than a $12,000 London to New York Concorde ticket. An hour quicker and since the SR-71 cost $200,000 an hour, that's a good half million dollar ticket for the one lucky pilot. It is rumored that one of the two person versions (pilot plus one lucky passenger) flew top diplomats and perhaps even George Bush Sr. on secret diplomatic missions. "No, I've been here in the office these last four hours...how could I possibly have gone to X 20 hours away?".

At Mach 3 you could cross the USA in 90 minutes

We have one in our museum here at Hill AFB. Give me a shout if you ever find yourself here

You need to watch the video Top 7 Rotary Cannons of the US Military.

'so I guess these were retired due to stealth, what's the bomber called', no, no and nooooooooooo. They were retired because satellites could perform the ISR (Intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance) missions just as well, and provide real-time information, AND not risk a pilot.

Very cool guys! I like your content and style, been watching you for a while. I think I know who Schultz mentioned. In Flagrant, he mentioned how he went to dinner with Joe Rogan and Bob Lazaar. The day before Lazaar was doing Research Rogans podcast. So that's my guess. 😁😎✌️

3.5 mach = 3.5X the speed of sound

First UFO sighting was in 1650

You should really check out "The Insane Engineering of the SR-71 Blackbird" by Real Engineering.

Have you guys reacted to the navy pilots chasing the tic tac ufo? I couldn’t find it anywhere you should probably check it out

The description Fastest Aircraft in not really accurate. The X15 is the Fastest Manned Aircraft Mach 6.70 but air launched and Rocket Powered. Saying that the Space Shuttle was Mach 25 on reentry and technically an unpowered Aircraft at that point. The SR71 is the fastest conventional Jet Aircraft Mach 3+ but the MIG-31 technically is Mach 3.2+ but the fastest confirmed speed is Mach 2.83. The SR71 is still a massive achievement for early 60s technology and one of my favourite Aircraft saw it flying many times from Detachment 4 of the 9th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing at RAF Mildenhall in Suffolk UK.

I can't remember if it said they actually have it or it's planned but I think they said they have it but the next generation of this and it has super sonic missiles on it super crazy cool looking.

SR-72 is supposedly already flying here and there. The "White Bat" is definitely already flying as it has been spotted and photographed three times now since 2021

Did they just gloss over 5 Taiwan U2's being shot down over West Taiwan?

The military stopped flying them. The CIA is still flying them

If you're ever in Michigan you can visit the Air zoo in Kalamazoo and see the only existing SR-71b, I think it was the training model

Right around 2'600 mph.

The B2 stealth bomber looks much like that last one they showed, the one you thought looked like a stingray. There is the F117 stealth fighter. The F35 fighter is also stealth. They reportedly have the Darkstar SR72 UAV(unmanned aerial vehicle) for recon.

And how about reacting to the fat electrician vids? Trust me, y'all are in for a treat

Are those custom red solo cups?

It's coming. You're about to see stuff in the next few year's. But it ain't the Black Knight(The real one), it's unmanned, and is for real. But I'm just G.I. Joe. What do I know 😏 Impressive for it's time 100% The SR-71. *And there's more than 1 "Style/Model"

Arch angel its prototype was faster but classified

I think the Tic-Tac shaped objects are definitely some sort of drone the triangular shaped object that everybody always sees with the little three lights been seen on aircraft carriers and at Wright-Patterson all of these things look like planes that we already that we know about now that's R71 to stealth bomber the first one so on and so forth the generation after that United Kingdom all of these Allied Nations that's where you see him in there always at the Air Force bases or close by

Did they mention it gets so hot it's a foot longer when it lands then when it took off?!?!? Nightmare getting the fuel tanks not to leak. They have to put A LOT of pans under it after it's landed 😊

A lot of these stealth aircraft and drones do not handle well at all. They lack the inherent stability of traditional plane designs so they need to use computers to stabilise them as a human couldn't do it well or fast enough. Even the manned ones are heavily controlled and stabilised by computers. After you have added all that computer stabilisation they then fly well enough, but they still arent really meant for fast manouvers, they are long range bombers or recon aircraft. If you look at the stealth fighters they have, they are more stable but they arent as efficiently stealthy as the dedicated bombers, meaning the much larger bombers have the same radar cross section of the smaller fighters. These planes and drones are a good example of how sensors and software can compensate for suboptimal hardware, the plane mechanically is optimal for stealth but it is really suboptimal for stability to the point a human couldn't fly it without assistance, so the computer system and sensors need to compensate for that lack of stability.

No Dave, the russians and the chinese don't have the same smdh.

Any video by sandboxx would be great for reactions

I would think their maneuverability would be almost Limitless because there's no G-Force to consider no pilot. That's why when they show that like Tic Tac video and the F-22 Raptors trying to chase a time like it wouldn't matter you can't Bank like that just my opinion bunch of drones. In the ones where we see multiple I swore of them like the military doesn't do that now so why wouldn't they already have better stuff. They're always showing us things that are already obsolete it wouldn't make any sense for them to show the world brand new things that's not how top-secret works they still won't tell us who killed Kennedy😂

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use in x Men too

Its not the fastest plane...its the second ocean gate 😒😒😒😏

8:20 not at all 😂😂 some of it may be USA, but not ALL of it is Human.... we'll keep our secrets from every nation too ;)

No, the Russians and Chinese don't have the same anything.

While it's true not one missile successfully hit a sr71 in service if it was over Russia today it would easily be shot down.

I thought this was the band. Tell me...WHY???

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Youre running out o f videos to repeat this one three times then have it seen on DAZ channel as if it was new or something

No it's not! They have those ufo things now which are much faster.

America sets the standard in Tech. Russian are scared of the F16 coming to the fight. They were built in 1970. Think about that.

The most insane thing to me was that in 1945, jets were BARELY making it off the ground. We still had many planes made of wood for God's sake... Cut to 7 years later, and the US is developing the U2, to fly at the edge of space... Cut to a few years later, they started designing and building this thing. The speed at which advancements came was actually incredible.

Hi guys! I am a retired Air Force, Electronic Intelligence Analyst, ELINT. I was assigned to Det 4, 9th SRW at RAF Mildenhall UK, from 1982 - 86. It was my job to process, analyze, and report ELINT data collected during the mission. I was also responsible for providing pre - post mission briefings to the aircrew. Including Brian Shulz, mentioned in this video. There were so many interesting events during that time period. Although it was probably one of the most demanding of my assignments, It was one of my favorites.

The LA Speed Story is about a 71, and the pilot that flew it rolls the story. Fantastic

I've seen two of them up close and both have a rough, black skin that looks like a child's paper mache project made out of black construction paper. They always leaked fuel by the gallon when on the ground or in the air because of the titanium skin that had pourous seams. From 50 feet away they look like a Star Wars project but up close they are clearly rough, hand-built, and not as pretty as their outline. This kind of innovation, state-of-the-science and simultaneously crude are hallmarks of the Skunk Works. Just do it and clean up the mess later.