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Originally posted by kaisen


How fast does it really fly? Well, it exceeds Mach 3 or three times the speed of sound . Mach 1 is 330 m/s or 741.4 mph, the speed of sound. Mach 2 is twice this; Mach 3 is three times this. It out-flies the sun. You can have breakfast in New York; fly to Los Angeles (in a Blackbird), have another breakfast (time wise) before you left New York. The SR-71's fly at 33 miles per minute or 3,000 feet per second. It flies faster than a 30-06 bullet.

"faster than mach 3" Uh huh. You notice that they never give an actual number. I have to wonder. I've read that there are a mig or two that will do over mach 3. I suspect that they are NOTHING compared to the SR71, so how fast does the thing REALLY go.

My dad was in the Navy and spent a short time doing short tours on fast attack nuclear submarines. He said that the maximum unclassified depth that they would go was 400ft or maybe yards. Either way, right, that's the deepest they go. They even had memorabilia that you could buy for each sub that you went on and he once came back with a glass beer mug that had depth marks that had numbers down to 400 and then changed to question marks after that.