SR-71

"J. Severyn" wrote in
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Snipola
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.

Excellent link!

I like 5-10, "Prohibited Maneuvers",

"Stalls, spins, inverted flight, and intentional
inlet unstarts are prohibited."

Geee...ya think?

Brian
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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... : )

Brian Shul (also a SR-71 pilot) has written some good material on the
SR-71, and he also happens to be a good photographer, so he has a lot
of one-of-a-kind shots of the SR-71 and flights at cruise. His book
_Sled Driver_ is excellent, well written and visually stunning.

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