Jim Macklin wrote:
If you do some simple algebra, the SR-71 is much faster than
the published data. As the story below shows, only about
60% of the flight time is spent at supersonic speed. Yet
the speed for the flights are in the 2,000 mph range even
counting the subsonic time into the average.

I would expect that the maximum speed was 4,000-6,000 mph.


snip *really* long & cool Blackbird story

Jim, you GOTTA start editing out yer replies. My monitor isn't big
enough... : )