OT/The Germans are Way Cool --SR-71

[Guest24]

If you don't think the Germans are way cool this will prove it without question. Forget the sailboat stuff, Kelly Johnson is loving this all the way.

FARK.com: Fark Video Player (4464984) Remote controlled SR-71 Blackbird

[signit98]

Wow!

[1100s nut]

Thats cool. One of the most interesting facts about the real deal that most people don`t know is the max g load is something like 2.5-3 g`s, thats low. Cool vid.

Lane

[Guest24]

Originally Posted by 1100s nut

Thats cool. One of the most interesting facts about the real deal that most people don`t know is the max g load is something like 2.5-3 g`s, thats low. Cool vid.

Lane

I ran across the classified spec sheet while I was stationed in the Pentagon. Suffice it to say the plane is "faster than a speeding bullet." Afriend of mine that still flies for American Airlines was the last squadron commander of the unit. He had to do a controlled ejection out of the "Black Bird" when the aircraft was unable to take on a required fuel load. Not enough gas to reach an airfield. Friendly airfield that is.

The ability to pull G's (and sustain airspeed) is important in air combat maneuvering with another aircraft close in. It is not as important against a surface to air missile in that high g's make you an almost stationary target for a weapon with a proximity fuse. The SR-71 often used it's speed to simply outrun a missile. Pulling G's would have merely slowed it down.

[tim22]

Yea, that's the s%i$.

Coupla turbines inside. I'm in the R/C industry and he probably has something like these in there--three to five grand each--real turbines that spin like 125,000rpm (yea, one-hundred twenty-five grand!). Then there's all the radio gear and retracts, not to mention the materials to build the plane. Could be scratch built, but I wouldn't be surprised if that's a kit with a fiberglass fuse. Pretty cool.

[Corky]

That's one skilled operator for sure.
Judging from the length of his Levi's he was expecting a flood sometime real soon.

[SergioK]

That's beautiful.

[chewie]

That is wild!

[Rapid Dog]

That's pretty damn cool.
We got the real thing setting right outside in the parking lot...

[RBMann]

Originally Posted by tim22

Yea, that's the s%i$.

Coupla turbines inside. I'm in the R/C industry and he probably has something like these in there--three to five grand each--real turbines that spin like 125,000rpm (yea, one-hundred twenty-five grand!). Then there's all the radio gear and retracts, not to mention the materials to build the plane. Could be scratch built, but I wouldn't be surprised if that's a kit with a fiberglass fuse. Pretty cool.

Now if you mounted one in each saddlebag and ...............

[TX_Biker_Scum]

Originally Posted by Rapid Dog

That's pretty damn cool.
We got the real thing setting right outside in the parking lot...

It used to come in the handy, take-home size too...

[BoxerFanatic]

gotta love the SR-71/A-12.

For what it did, there still doesn't seem to be anything that does it better.

Although the ramjet drones actually took out one or two of the aircraft, IIRC. at that speed, the vertical stabilizers aren't THAT wide apart.

I have a little toy RC counter-rotating helicopter... and a couple of 30$ toy airplanes... and they are fun.

But something like that... it seems like it would be hard to third-person control a jet like that in a very small airspace envelope, within eyesight range.

Something that fast needs some range, and if un-manned, almost needs instrumentation, and augmented reality, virtual first person control from on-board cameras. ...But letting a craft like that roam around could potentially cause trouble for airspace regulations.

It sure does look cool on orbit, and with fly-bys though. and the modeling is first rate.

[EZ-RIDER]

For what it did, there still doesn't seem to be anything that does it better !

Their is something better and Faster then the SR-71

Aurora Hypersonic Jet

[BoxerFanatic]

That is why I said "seems"

Nobody seems to have any hard evidence, specifications, or anything concrete on the Aurora. Not that it doesn't exist, but it is hard to discuss it when nobody knows that much about it.

[JonyRR]

Aurora Hypersonic Jet

that 'grey-black' program covers the REAL 'aurora'..the SR75/TR3B flying triangle.
Go read up on Thomas Townsend-Brown...when witnesses say the B2 stealth 'glows blue around the edges' it's because of a TTB field generator..and the 'ttb effect' can be used in a variety of ways.

[JonyRR]

and that was a frakkin' awesome SR71. If you didn't know it was a model, you could swear it's the real thing on those flybys.

[LeftCoast Peter]

Funny dude in the hat smoking a cigarette while they fire that up!

[Sofatester]

Originally Posted by Corky

That's one skilled operator for sure.
Judging from the length of his Levi's he was expecting a flood sometime real soon.

Judging it from their dialect, the Levi's had seen the big flood of 2002.

[dkosters]

Flying RC is one of my other hobbies. I haven't had the courage to throw upwards of $7,000 at a turbine setup yet (that's the low end). Actually, I don't know if I've spent that much in 20 years of flying. I've only lost 1 plane in 20 years, but the complexity of a turbine takes it up a few notches. Plus I fly out of my property (unpaved) and don't want to risk FOD with grass, stones, etc. Turbine inspections (ship it back to the mfg, cost of over $500) are highly recommended after only 25 hours of runtime, so it's not cheap.

Here's the first of a good series of HiDef videos on YouTube:



Or if you want the real thing, Sonex Turbine experimental: