Posted on May 1, 2018

Here's Some Rare Footage Of The SR-71 Blackbird Testing

CW5 Jack Cardwell

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Here's Some Rare Footage Of The SR-71 Blackbird Testing

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SR-71 Blackbird Original Rare Footage

The SR-71 Blackbird, departing from the UK to US. One of the first flights completed in 3h 35mins. The SR-71 did actually do this crossing in 1h 55m a world ...

Thanks CW5 Jack Cardwell for letting us know.

Here is another video of SR-71 Blackbird Original Rare Footage
The SR-71 Blackbird, departing from the UK to US. One of the first flights completed in 3h 35mins. The SR-71 did actually do this crossing in 1h 55m a world record (concorde did it in 3h 30mins and a 747 takes 7h 30mins)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BA2eFVwnf_E

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SP5 Norman McGill

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I read where the Blackbird had so much expansion in its parts that when it took off it actually had fuel leaking out of the tanks until the aircraft got up to operating temps. The article also said that it took off with minimum fuel and refilled in the air after everything tightened up.
Question: does anyone know how fast this plane actually could fly? I've heard that it went around 2000 MPH but it had to go faster than that to break all the records ir set.

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