SR- 71/ Blackbird lore

1972, Barksdale AFB:

A visiting SR-71 leaving the base was taking what seemed an
inordinately long time holding in position for takeoff. I was
standing in front of Base Ops amid a small group of people watching,
when someone said, "I wonder what's taking him so long."

Whereupon someone else cracked, "He's waiting on a landing
clearance at Nellis."


Billy

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I'm still amazed at the New York to London record set September 1, 1974: 1
hour 54 minutes and 56.4 seconds with an average speed of 1,807 statute mph
over the 3,461 statute mile distance (and that INCLUDES slowing down for a
refueling over the Atlantic)!!!!!!!


Ed
"Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that
men have died to win them."

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Address for Bill of Rights Day
15 Dec 1941

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Trust me, if anyone ever broke that record the SR would have easily
re-established a higher record . . .

The original record "upper limit" was set "low" to mask the true
capabilities of the aircraft.

Steve Swartz


"RobbelothE" wrote in message
...
I'm still amazed at the New York to London record set September 1, 1974:
1
hour 54 minutes and 56.4 seconds with an average speed of 1,807 statute
mph
over the 3,461 statute mile distance (and that INCLUDES slowing down for a
refueling over the Atlantic)!!!!!!!


Ed
"Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time
that
men have died to win them."

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Address for Bill of Rights Day
15 Dec 1941

(Delete text after dot com for e-mail reply.)

Trust me, if anyone ever broke that record the SR would have easily
re-established a higher record . . .

The original record "upper limit" was set "low" to mask the true
capabilities of the aircraft.

Steve Swartz


With all the radar and stuff like that there why are the capabilities of the
SR-71 still classified. I'm sure the bad guys already know. I'd really like to
know how high and how fast it realy was.

Dan, U. S. Air Force, retired

On 24 Jul 2003 18:59:04 GMT, (B2431) wrote:


Trust me, if anyone ever broke that record the SR would have easily
re-established a higher record . . .

The original record "upper limit" was set "low" to mask the true
capabilities of the aircraft.

Steve Swartz


With all the radar and stuff like that there why are the capabilities of the
SR-71 still classified. I'm sure the bad guys already know. I'd really like to
know how high and how fast it realy was.

Dan, U. S. Air Force, retired


According to Wings of Fame Volume 9 pg 36 at one point in the program
the A-12 had reached Mach 3.56 and 96,200 ft.

Someone a while back posted a link to an image that listed 500 KEAS
(Knots ? AirSpeed) and somebody else mentioned 600 KIAS as the
structural limit. The aformentioned graph lists Mach 3.3 at about
seventy-two thousand feet as 440 KEAS. So if you extrapolate and
figure out what groundspeed five or six hundred knots IAS is at
96,000ft. . .who knows? Of course there are heat limits too in
there.