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SR-71 Blackbird: How the World's FASTEST Plane Became Irrelevant

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20 Comments

@megaprojects9649 Creator 3 years ago Pinned

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@Ai-dz7ys 3 years ago

A mega projects about how they procured the Titainium off the Russians would be awesome. Please Simon.

@spamuel98 3 years ago

Getting titanium for your super secret spy plane from the people you're spying on has got to be one of the ballsiest moves in history.

@afterthefact6708 1 year ago

Why is the thumbnail a crappy AI version of the SR71 when there are tons of actual pictures of it XD

@tigbcs 3 years ago

Even after being retired for ~30years, it still looks like it came from 100 years in the future. What a sexy machine 😍

@Fortunes.Fool. 3 years ago

This plane is just enormous in person. It must've looked like a spaceship to the people who saw it for the first time.

@bobpond6381 3 years ago

R.I.P. Brian Shul. Not just a hero but a great storyteller. Watch what you can find from him if you’re a blackbird fan or an aviation fan.

@theshadowoftruth7561 3 years ago

I worked on The SR-71 in the late 70's at Beale AFB. I even sat in the cockpit once and ran the flight controls. We had to get ALL the air bubbles out of the Hydraulic Fluid.

@chipman1589 3 years ago

Santa has refused to give me this for 22 years and counting

@MrPossumeyes 3 years ago

The Sr71 was the most beautiful plane ever built.

@kensanders6241 3 years ago

So sad that one of the pilots, Brian Shul, passed earlier this week. His story of the speed check from the LA flight tower is epic. RIP Mr Shul and Blackbird 😢

@RageDavis 3 years ago

The black paint was not intended to absorb heat, quiet the opposite, actually: it was meant to radiate heat away from the aircraft.
Triethylborane was not "mixed in" the fuel, it was used as "liquid sparkplug" during startup of the engines and for igniting the afterburners, since it is hypergolic
(burns sponaneously in contact with air).

@TJ-wg3ud 3 years ago

This plane seems almost cutting edge today but it was built 60 YEARS AGO!!! Such an amazing aircraft!

@TheMoonShepard 3 years ago

This Jet is one of the greatest achievements of mankind.

@scali84mtry 3 years ago

If your title is going to mention the sr 71 then make the thumb nail an actual pic of that plane

@jonathanshumpert9549 3 years ago

I was at Kadena air force base in Okinawa when they had the last operational SR-71. When it was leaving the base for the last time they let people on the base know so we could all see it. It was impressive seeing it take off just after sunset.

@Yuvattar 3 years ago

For the love of all that is holy and pure, the video's thumbnail is not an SR-71. Amazing video though, thank you.

@BLACKAAROW 3 years ago

one of the most beautiful planes ever built, and the fact that they managed to build the SR-71 in a time before computers makes it even more impressive