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Yeah, I got to see them up close at Edwards when I was in 7th grade. I remember reading all about them in elementary school. My friends and I built models and it's always what we pretended to fly when running around the playground in a dog fight..haha. I don't think kids even do that stuff anymore

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I went to a presentation by Brian Shul...one of the very few who piloted the SR-71 Blackbird, still the fastest air breathing jet plane in the world. It still has the ability to burn fuel at 90,000 feet, and he claims to have flown it at Mach 3.2, (and hinted higher; its actual top speed and ceiling is still classified) which is about 2455 mph...

It's titanium body begins to expand by several inches when it heats up doing 3 times the speed of sound, and it has expansion joints that accommodate this...and by design, it begins to leak fuel which apparently is not very flammable until it slows down and the fuselage cools, stopping the leaks...
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Look up Shul on YouTube if you have an hour to kill. He is a great speaker.
LA speed check is a good story, and there is one about a low pass over a British airbase.
I think it was also him, but I could be wrong, talking about outrunning Russion SAM's fired from Libya.
 
I was going through a calendar on my phone. Apparently we an Indigenous people’s day. I wonder if they know of or celebrate that day lol.
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Brute said:
Apparently with drones, satellites and the U2 the Air Force no longer believes it needs the Blackbird...it is crazy expensive to fly, with specialized fuel and enough tankers airborne (two at each site for redundancy) to refuel (it apparently gets worse fuel consumption than my JK6) as is zips around. the last Blackbird flew from CA to the Smithsonian in DC in under 42 mins...
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Yeah it had to be refueled every 3 hours it was up

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