Amazing!!
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Steve Kish
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A tad faster than the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird, my fave air machine! 
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Steve Kish":1b7qjxwg said:A tad faster than the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird, my fave air machine!
Was there an official top speed for that? I thought it was still classified?
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Not grounded by the ash then :roll:
Chuffin' quick tho'....
Isn't the SR71 made mostly of titanium? I've sat in one of those in the Boeing museum - awsome.
SP
Chuffin' quick tho'....
Isn't the SR71 made mostly of titanium? I've sat in one of those in the Boeing museum - awsome.
SP
Didn't Great Britain once push the boundaries of high speed air travel??
£38BN plus to be spent on defence this year yet we still rely on Nimrods, a derivitive of the Comet (the FIRST civilian jet airliner!!) for patroling our air/sea space.
But at least the people of Afghanistan can vote without being turned away at 10pm on election day!!
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£38BN plus to be spent on defence this year yet we still rely on Nimrods, a derivitive of the Comet (the FIRST civilian jet airliner!!) for patroling our air/sea space.
But at least the people of Afghanistan can vote without being turned away at 10pm on election day!!
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rosstheboss":2wq8q49c said:Steve Kish":2wq8q49c said:A tad faster than the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird, my fave air machine!
Was there an official top speed for that? I thought it was still classified?
Everything's been declassified. Here's a link to an online copy of the official Air Force flght manual. (caveat: it's a HUGE file, and the server craps out from overload sporadically).
SR-71 Flight Manual
Steve Kish
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Yes, the Blackbird had an unpainted ti body. Apparently, when cruising in the strato at over Mach 2.5, you could see the metal glowing red! :shock:
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FMJ":1sim31pk said:rosstheboss":1sim31pk said:Steve Kish":1sim31pk said:A tad faster than the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird, my fave air machine!
Was there an official top speed for that? I thought it was still classified?
Everything's been declassified. Here's a link to an online copy of the official Air Force flght manual. (caveat: it's a HUGE file, and the server craps out from overload sporadically).
SR-71 Flight Manual
That website refuses to work - everywhere else states Mach 3.2+ as the top speed - I remember an expilot on tv a couple of years ago saying the mach numbers started getting "silly high" on a few flights but couldn't confirm what they actually were!!
