How Did the SR-71 Blackbird Get Made and How was It So Fast?

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  @TodayIFoundOut · 2 years ago · pinned

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  @BobB-w4q · 2 years ago

  Please remember that this technological miracle was developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s!!

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  @ajlukelepuke · 2 years ago

  The SR-71 is the most incredible and beautiful aircraft ever conceived.

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  @nilus2k · 2 years ago

  They have actually tried to change how the X-Jet looks several times but every time they go back the design based off the SR-71. &nbsp;It’s just such a cool looking plane

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  @robertpearson8798 · 2 years ago

  I read a book about the SR-71 last year written by one of the later pilots. Among the more interesting things was the fact that on some missions the crew would often see multiple sunsets and sunrises in a single flight. While flying towards the sun the aircraft was outrunning the Earth’s rotation which made the sun rise in relation to the aircraft. To refuel the plane would decelerate to subsonic speed and descend in altitude to rendezvous with the tanker aircraft and the sun would set. After refuelling they would accelerate back to speed, climb to altitude and the sun would begin to rise again….in the West!

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  @bozzy-101 · 1 year ago

  Not 20 years earlier, people were flying Mustangs and Spitfires in WW2. Talk about an insane development in technology!

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  @elijahwilliams7791 · 2 years ago

  This plane is in the museum I work at. it&apos;s hung from cables in the gallery, and is veeeeery slowly sinking towards the exhibit hall

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  @BeardyBaldyBob · 1 year ago

  Over half a century old and STILL looks more futuristic that just about anything else in the sky!

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  @Tordvergar · 1 year ago

  Kelley Johnson&apos;s creation of the SR-71 is a triumph of engineering rarely equaled. &nbsp;Maybe Brunelleschi&apos;s dome in Florence.

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  @dontfeedthelunatic · 2 years ago

  My father in law worked on the camera equipment for these babies. They are amazing all over

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  @DeputatKaktus · 2 years ago

  Funfact:<br>The name „Skunk Works“ goes back to the first location of the division. It was inside an old circus tent which was located near a plastics factory. Said factory often emitted some pretty foul smells, which gave rise to people answering the phone like „Skunk Works, Johnson here“. The top brass at Lockheed didn’t like it, but the name stuck. <br><br>Source: Ben Rich, „Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed“.

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  @Gav_Jam · 2 years ago

  Wow, these skunk work folk really were a different breed and this was all done in an era without a desktop computer. There were so many obstacles to getting the machine made but they successfully overcame every single one.

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