SR-71 Blackbird: World's Fastest Plane Ever Built 

Just a few years actually. They already officially stated they are making a new version that can hyper cruise at mach 6

@@richardbaldwin3604 the Aurora does Mach 6 they flew that 20 years ago to so

They don't need it. It's sort of like having the best pre-dreadnought ... in 1906.

@@gmain1977 I seen the Aurora plane cross the midwest sky late one night stargazing, it went from horizon to horizon in an unbelievable short time maybe 6 seconds and it was pretty high up, didn't even hear it until it was almost already gone,cool pulsing sound and trail cloud.

@@owlman4645 how long ago was that? The US denied it for years and only came clean few years ago on it

designed and first flown in the 60s, 2 years after the British Flaming pencil

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Whats more amazing is the German HO-229 flying wing built in 1945 and still looks like it was built today.

@@IamaproudChristian22When? Im bored I wanna play now. He didn't do jack and I ain't repenting to no one son. Hail satan smoke meth

@@georgebarnes8163 A-12 / SR-71 designed in late 50s.

Underrated comment and very true..

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He was an American hero and patriot.

On your side? You did nothing to contribute our country you basement dweller so stop talking like you are a part of it

So true, as well, he designed and implemented the after-burner setup for the J-58 turbines!👍✌

SR-72 will start building in 2023 & it will be in service in 2030 . SR-72 detail : Mach 6+ , unmanned & hypersonic aircraft

@@jzisers fun fact, it’s already been built :D and flown. So yeahhhhhh... but they will have it confirmed that it exists by the late 2020’s.

@@thecrapinmytoilet6892 and of course they have to perfect it. and don't forget while looking for new materials

Family friend helped design the exterior 😂

@@jzisers you mean first model was built pre 1990 and has been flown and tested 😂 why show off what you really got when your competitors are still decades behind 🤫 😄

That was the F4U Corsair

With the help of German master mind

Without a doubt a thing of memorizing beauty!!

@@funbirdsaditya7129 What German mastermind and which vehicle?

@@funbirdsaditya7129 but would not have happened without Robert Abernathy.

I touched an SR-71 when I was younger on an Air Force base

@@s1danem3 Man! I hope to see one, it'll happen some day

I live near a base in northern Virginia I have seen some wild stuff fly over my house but never the blackbird. One time thought there was a plane so wide it casted shade covered my entire block damn near 25 houses lmaoo it was crazy

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I used to go to air shows there all the time when I was a kid. Sucks they shut it down.

You can see a SR 71 at Huntsville Alabamas Huntsville rocket center along side a space shuttle with fuel tanks. As Saturn 5 rocket and many other interesting displays. It's pretty cool !

@@stevenmassey7586 Yeah I know, been there. I usually stop there every 2-3 years as I'm driving down on vacation to Florida.

@@rogercollins3 see ya next time !

Did you know it was actually called RS-71 until "somebody" said a "mistake" in live tv? xD SR-71 sounds cooler tbh xD

Satellites still can't provide real-time targeting data. Officers said they wished they had SR71 during Desert Storm.

We have kids watching tiktok and eating tiepods.

We? They.

@@vangthao4624 stupid comparison

@@vangthao4624 as opposed to the goobers back then watching Mickey Mouse and inhaling Asbestos.

It Would Still Be Classified For Years :/

I was talking to someone involved with the SR71 and he loosely stated mach 3.9

@@keithbell6104 we still don't know tho But it's fun guessing

To put end to the mystifications - You can download the Flight Manual. Just go to the graph called "Performance Envelopes". You will be shocked if you understand a little aerodynamics and airmanship. I don`t have it front of me but before SR - there was the French Griffon which should be studied a bit in detail too.

Probably, because it wen a lot faster and higher than advertised!

@Sean Fhhk why publicly release a faster one if your “competitors” still haven’t caught up? No sense pissing off tax payers when you can just keep em “classified” “Donuts on a rope contrail”/ Seismograph readings may say otherwise 🤔 Fun to look into if you like aircraft/propulsion stuff 😂

The Roswell crash was in 1947 i was told we got Velcro and other things from them as well as the grandfather to the a12

Probably because we spend so much $ on such things. We are at over 50% of the discretionary budget going to the military.

Yeah makes ya think 🤔 how’d we make that jump but couldn’t invent a radial tire?? Awesome piece of engineering still to this day💪

Just trust me the info I got is correct there out there not trying to sound captivating

Roswell crash didn’t involve aliens and the craft was from this planet. We were told to believe it did. Aliens and spaceships were a cover for the dark truth of the actual incident.

Kelly Johnson was chief engineer at Skunkworks.

Just wait until you research x15s they put this slowpoke sr71 to shame.

He wasn't even talking about the speed of them...he was talking about looks and design...that's why I hate commenting some times... saying something that had to do with the original post is so annoying...

​@@georgeblae5756 But X-15 will run nonstop for just 90 seconds but SR-71 for 90 minutes

@@aneshkumar4513 just like me 😎

Howard Hughes was a genius as well! Some of his ideas? Are still used in the Air Force today.

SR-72 is under development

I lived near Beale in the mid seventies and got to see them on a high school tour :)

I’m at Beale right now A1C wish I seen the sr-71

It would have been an experience you would never forget.

Lived at Beale from summer of 1965 to December 1966. My dad was the SR-71 wing commander briefly. (He was the U-2 wing commander for four years prior.) He was promoted to brigadier general though quite soon after taking over the SR-71 wing and thus became the division commander...Brigadier General John A. Des Portes.

I was stationed on Okinawa 1971 & watched it take off ,went down the runway & then it went straight up like a rocket & was GONE in seconds!! Coolest sxht I've ever seen still to this day!!

Not even close to the fastest plane.

@@michaelbritain5546 YUP... X-15 for example went twice the speed of the sr-71. People confuse SR-71 with being the fastest production built as being the fastest built ever. There is a difference between the two.

@@michaelbritain5546 What are you talking about? The only manned airplane faster than the SR-71 had rockets attached to it. And we can't even be sure if they were faster, b/c the top speed of the Blackbird is still classified.

​@@james-p It doesn't matter what an airplane uses for thrust: reciprocating engine-prop or turbo-prop or turbo-jet or rocket propelled or gravity (glider), if it is using lifting bodies (wings) to fly and conventional flight controls for control then its an AIRPLANE. PERIOD. You are confusing a Rocket vs. "rocket -propelled." A Rocket has no lifting bodies (wings) to create lift, therefore it is not an airplane. The X-15 used lifting bodies, therefore it was an airplane that just happened be rocket-propelled. As stated earlier an airplane can use anything for thrust. Thrust is not what defines an airplane. Lifting bodies (wings) is what defines an airplane. So, The Space Shuttle when it enters the atmosphere is a conventional airplane which is using gravity for thrust and conventional flight controls (ailerons, flaperons, body flap and rudder) for control. Therefore, sir, the Shuttle is the fastest "PLANE" ever built. We all agree, the SR-71 is the fastest "turbo-jet propelled" plane ever built but it is NOT the fastest plane. And that is non-negotiable.

I don’t remember the details but the way it was purchased was clandestine. USSR didn’t know the USA was buying it.

Interesting, thanks for the info !

Still not even close to as fast as ufo's

@@clintonmorgan9068 a UFO can be anything but I will say I have seen a man in law chair with weather balloons one morning going down the interstate and that was a UFO like moment

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I would have to say that honor goes to the North American P-51D Mustang.

@@dspates51 never! 2nd F14 perhaps 3rd

I completely agree Kroka, and I would put the F-22 in there as well.

The A-10! LMFAO! And the Space Shuttle... Leaves the atmosphere as a rocket yet uses its flight controls for control on ascent. Then re-enters the Atmosphere as a conventional airplane at over 17,500mph and lands as a conventional aircraft. Nothing can top that greatest aeronautical engineering accomplishment!

@@ILSRWY4 The shuttle is without a doubt a great engineering accomplishment but since it rides a rocket up and glides down it is in a category all by itsel. It is clearly not an airplane. It was without saying one of Americas greatest accomplishments.

@@ILSRWY4 space shuttle was undoubtably a very impressive engineering feat, but to say it is the greatest aeronautical engineering achievement is laughable. the space shuttle program was shut down for a reason, it was an inefficient, expensive, and dangerous machine that claimed the lives of 14 people and was replaced. the point of engineering is to make things efficient, safe, and practical, and space shuttle was none of those things.

@@bobcrane9945 A10 has had the most reported friendly fire kills than any other warplane in the USAF

@@autumnspider1977 That would be either a pilot issue or a communication issue and nothing to do with the plane

Far more impressive technically,. was Concorde. A Apollo astronaut said Concorde was a far greater technical acheivement than the Moon shot.

Thats when America was truly great, until traitors were allowed to steal secrets for the Chinese and Soviets

BADASS

S500 will manage it easily

SR-72 will be better it has speed of Mach 6

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Thank you for your service!

Woah that's so cool

I used to refuel my station car on my daily commute before the lockdown. It has three turbos, one more than the SR-71.

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@@user-xl3dr5nx5u ENGLISH please.

You forgot sr72?

Interesting fact, it was supposed to be called RS 71 but it was changed.

Crazy how most of the SR71 was fuel. True. 60k pound aircraft. 80k pounds of fuel.

@@DavidEVogel and it leaked alot on the runway; The titanium had to heat up during flight to really form a seal.

@@Mark.G475 Not to upstage you, but I worked with the SR-71 at Beale AFB from 1977 to 1982. I was a member of the Physiological Support Division. Dressed and doffed the crew members full pressure suits. I am now USAF retired. If I look back, I would have to say that working with the SR-71 and U-2 aircraft were the most exciting years of my life.

X15 Mach 6.7 4.520 mph over twice as fast as the SR71. The A12 was faster than the SR71 the fastest documented speed is 15 mph faster at 2,208 vs 2,193 mph.

@@steve-ph9yg the X-15 was not an air-breathing jet.

@@robertruark8797 and your point is what the record books have a footnote listing the the X15 is a airplane with a rocket engine. The Bell X1 set a number of speed records in the same aircraft category it was also rocket powered as was it’s record setting stablemates the X1A and X2 ( the first manned aircraft exceeding Mach 3). The only way the SR71 is the fastest manned airplane or aircraft is by limiting what one can be defined as one or set other limits like production ones over experimental ones. The SR71 is in the official record book as the second fastest aircraft but unofficially it’s third since Lockheed has documented the A12 at 15 mph faster than the SR71. The reason the SR71 holds the speed record over the A12 is simple it was a black project long after it’s official retirement with everything officially secret any questions about it were credited to the nearly identical SR71. The Lockheed manufacture of both aircraft says the A12 is faster but was classified so the mostly unclassified SR71 received credit as the fastest. I think the best way I heard someone described the A12 was “ Spy’s don’t take out billboards “ .

@@steve-ph9yg the SR-71 is the world's fastest air breathing jet

@@steve-ph9yg What are you trying to prove here?

Are you actually writing on the internet, to a plane.. which isnt alive and cant read or anything? cba stupid people writing their feelings for likes :P

SR-72 will have the speed of Mach 6

@@jzisers No it'll be higher. Mach 6 is just a hint... The chief said it'll be "over mach 6"...

SR-72 will 3 times better than the previous aircraft

The blue guy invent it.

Dude, there is no X-men...

That was that first thing that came to mind when I clicked on

Yep

I was there with it then as an aircraft mechanic we stayed at The Bird in Hand Hotel just outside Mildenhall which was a det. That the RAF loaned us time to time

@@Marfoir0303 The Bird in Hand -- I spent a lot of time there. Awesome little pub.

Well modern super cars are exactly that!

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Exactly. They wouldn't "retire" something like the SR71 unless they had a better replacement.

Do you think China has a faster plane? Perhaps.

@@freeagent8225 I dont. The Chinese Military didn't even have a "stealth" fighter jet until it hacked the US and stole schematics.

@@trevorvolcom7 schematics? Last time I checked, the j-20 looks nothing like the American ones. Or I might be wrong

@@Royallz15 They stole the knowledge of how to make Stealth capabilities. Dude look it up. Stop. Go Google it. Get all of your information. Then come back her and conduct yourself in an intelligent manner.

Not via espionage, from shell companies and civilian secondary sources.

@@theccpisaparasite8813 thank you

@@moustachio334 still it was a pretty nice one piece subterfuge

TRUE !

these aren't human made

When I was a young Marine stationed in Okinawa in 1989, a lot of us went to Kadena to eat the Air Force food. It's funny you guys were doing that 12 years before us. I'll bet it still goes on today in 2021.

Was in Okinawa USMC in 75-76 used to see it in the sky all the time

I had a 69 chevelle like that once!lol..

how fast foes it go

@@TheMilesx4 shhhhhhhhhhhhh!

Not to be confused with the real blackbird A-12, lighter faster and a higher ceiling, the A-12 is the fastest plane ever build, due to its secrecy it hides in the shadows and the sr71 takes the heat, testiment being,nobody even today speaks or even knows of the A-12

@@TheMilesx4 Mach 3.9 = 2992.35 MPH

@@MrProfessional777 Space Shuttle Mach 13 at 110k feet.

Acknowledged fastest plane in the world is actually the space shuttles. at mach 13 at 110k feet the the shuttles flew as a conventional aircraft using wings, ailerons, flaperons and a rudder.

No way it’s fly by wire that technology can way after the 60s

@@time4955 I worked with people that flew that plane.

negative. The X-15 had rocket engine it was a prototype for a SSTO actually and had no air intake it had its own O2 tank .but the SR-71 had a air intake so it still holds the record for the fastest air breathing jet plane we are not talking about rocket planes here

@@space9342 I think you need reread my original comment a few more times.

@@czar_sadowski_3 well what the title says is correct in accords. We are talking about jet propulsion and not rocket engines so they compared with the interceptors not with X-15 and i think you need to read my comment a few more times. No offence btw :)

@@space9342 The title of the video is "SR-71 Blackbird: Worlds Fastest Plane Ever Built". It doesn't say "worlds fastest jet plane" or "worlds fastest air breathing plane". It just says "plane". It really should say "worlds fastest jet". The X15 (like the sr71) is also a "plane", hence why the title is incorrect. Also in my original comment, I said that the SR71 is the "worlds fastest jet" I didn't say "plane" or "aircraft" which are generic terms. I said "jet".

correct... fastest "JET" - not the fastest aircraft.

SR-72 : coming soon

@@jzisers I doubt it. It would be spy reconnaissance ( hence the S.R. ) , and anything they could hope to achieve with the jet, can be done by satellite. Which would probably be cheaper, easier, and no risk to life

@@righty-o3585 no it is coming indeed.... Alongwith plenty other secret and not so secret projects! Work on that plane has already began and first flight will commence in 2023 if I remember correctly!

@@awesome10k64 I guess we will see, but making that jet would be completely pointless

@@righty-o3585 No it won't be. Considering how many things they're adding. They even hinted that 72 has offensive capabilities.