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![]() "Jim Macklin" wrote in message news ![]() 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. Much of the SR71 POH is available on-line at: http://www.sr-71.org/blackbird/manual/ Section 5-8 (Flight Envelop Limits) is a good read. The whole POH is very interesting. John Severyn KLVK |
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