Thanks for watching everyone! If you enjoyed the video, please give it a thumbs up. And feel free to subscribe as I have many more videos coming over the next few months... X-15, F-22, YF-23, the first 747/727/737, B-17, B-29, B-36, B-47, XB-70, Hughes H-4 Hercules, YF-12, Space Shuttle Orbiter and more... (footage is already captured so I just need to edit it!)
Once spoke with a guy who did maintenance on an SR-71, they had a fun little parlor trick that they used to do with the new guys on base where they would drop a match in a puddle of JP7 and watch as rather than light the puddle on fire the match would simple fizzle out, that is how hard it is to ignite JP7.
I’ve been next to the A-12 on the intrepid nurse I’m and an SR-71 in the greensomething aerospace museum in Oregon, forgot what it’s called, but go to those museums also including the Charleston, Patriots Point in South Carolina, It’s called the USS Yorktown, they are really cool!
@@OG_Wilikers haha yes the Evergreen Museum near Portland. Yes I also went there and filmed their Spruce Goose and the SR-71 which I'll probably add to my YF-12 video :)
This to me has always been one of the most fascinating aircraft that has ever been made. The feats of engineering that were used on this machine is absolutely astounding, especially for being a product from decades and decades ago. It blows my mind sometimes what people can come up with and create, and the SR-71 further reinforces this. It's also one of the most beautiful looking aircraft as well in my opinion. I really appreciate your tour of this machine, this video was great!
Finally someone who gets the camera up close! So everyone can appreciate the incredible engineering that went into this direct descendant of Icarus himself!
What makes this plane really amazing is the design of the engines. Unlike almost any other turbojet engine. the J58 was like two engine designs in one; a more or less conventional turbojet with afterburner, but with the ability to gradually turn into an almost pure ramjet for ultra fast flight.
when i was a kid in the 90s, we were fortunate to be invited to Edwards AFB by Lockheed Martin and got to sit in that beautiful old bird. Even as a child, when you look at the instruments you think ''this thing flies that fast in space? ok...'' haha A very rare experience i will never forget!
The 71 also had no flaps or slats, hence the high landing speeds, which requires the beefy gear. Such an incredible aircraft! Borderline spacecraft… Great video.
Looking at a plane or fighter plane up close is like seeing a race car up close, they look really nice on TV but when you see one in person you're surprised at how beat up they can be. Rust, dents, dings paint over spray but it really cool to see in my opinion, it makes it more real.
Used to watch these a lot as a kid in Okinawa in the 80’s. They had cool flames out of the back and like the U2, you could still hear them long after you couldn’t see them anymore.
Awesome video. Also impressive, that thunderbird in the background. My grandfather was a mechanic for the Thunderbirds in 1957-1958. Just brought up some good sentimental memories of him.
In 1990 I was a kid working at a gas station in New Jersey and saw what I thought was a meteor in the sky traveling from west to east. It was really high and way faster than an airplane. I always wondered what it was and why there was nothing in the news about it. It took about 20 years for me to finally find out that it was one of the SR-71s doing the cross country speed record.
Its just wild how the top secret supersonic spy plane space jet that costs a giga fortune many years ago is just casually breaking cross country speed records
I worked on these birds for over 5 years. Everything about them is remarkable. I still work on parts of them to this day. I make rings out of mission flown titanium parts of their exhaust nozzles.
Thank you for making this video! I have been in love with the SR71 since a child. Being unable to walk well, I never thought I would ever be able to see this plane in such detail as you have shown. Thank you Thank You!!
Thanks Paul for another very informative tour. This aircraft has always amazed me for 60s technology. I had the pleasure of getting up close to one on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier Intrepid in NY.
my all time favorite plane ever ...my dad was a pilot ,when i was just a twarp , he bought one for my birthday , we used to talk HOURS about planes and this thing was just on an other level in so manny ways , one of kind and still holds so manny records till this day ,that never be broken ever , hope you can do a vid of the harrier and the su 27 , i was lucky enough to climb in the sukoi27 on the FIDAE '94 and let me tell you , the cabin is just insane , those where the days........
This has been my favorite plane for a couple of decades. I learned a lot from this video and saw views I never thought I’d see. Very thoughtfully put together, Paul! I’m subscribing.
I've had the pleasure to see one in person before and it's quite the machine. Gotta be my favorite jet also. Its an iconic jet. So much history, wild to think for a long time it was top secret and some things still are. Top speed still classified even
Endless thank you for this incredible video Doctor, I've never thought of getting so close to the SR-71 and it's even more enjoyable with your introduction!! Thanks to those who gave you access to get ao close to the SR-71, splendid!!
I live 5 minutes away from this airbase. I feel more appreciate everytime someone from so far away has such appreciation for aircraft that's located next to me:)
I was just at the Pima Air and Space museum a few weeks ago, looks like you had some footage of the SR-71 and side-looking radar nose cone from that exhibit. It was INCREDIBLE seeing one of these in person! Great video!
@@PaulStewartAviation Excellent! My mate and I walked around that place for two days and didn't see everything. The tiltrotor history they have there (and at Udvar-Hazy) is impressive as well, tho don't know if you're into history vids. Cheers.
I was wondering if this was in my neck of the woods. The Air Force Museum is quite something special. When anyone visits Dayton, I suggest it as a must-do.
This and the F-117 were my favourite aircraft as a young fella. I had the models and the posters and still love them to this day 👌Awesome looking pieces of kit!
Awesome video and very interesting! Clear and well lit given the subject matter - amazing to see all the rivets in the skin close up. superb aircraft!!!
Another really enjoyable tour Paul! I had heard that the fuel would leak onto the ground, which I thought sounded dangerous (!!) so it was interesting to hear about the TB. I look forward to the next 'tour'!!
During the summer of 1989 my dad brought me up to Beale AFB to watch an SR-71 launch before it was retired. The first impression I got as we approached the hangar was the strong smell of what you would have mistaken as charcoal lighter fluid. It was the JP-7 fuel puddled on the floor of the open hangar. The most unusual sight came once the engines were spun up, because the air being drawn into the engines while the Blackbird sat inside the hangar would occasionally create a vortex in the fuel puddle directly beneath the inlet. It was a short, very squat cone of mist that formed for a few seconds on the surface of the puddle like a strange miniature tornado.
JP7 was thin but extremely non-volatile, even less volatile than diesel, because they needed it to serve as cooling fluid for the plane's skin at Mach 3 without igniting. Considering JP7 required triethylborane to ignite it in the engine, I doubt it was much of a fire hazard on the ground. I'd be a little more concerned that JP7 was full of cesium to help disguise the exhaust plume...
Great video as always. I had the opportunity to see an SR-71 at Prima Air & Space Museum in Tucson Arizona. Seeing the airplane in person is a complete different experience.
I've been blessed to have seen one of these fly. Approach, flyover, and land, then take off. I was very young and it was one of the best days with my father. Those were few and far between.
Great video, nice to see the Udvar Hazy SR-71 as well, she’s right down the road from me. You had mentioned the speed record from the Atlantic to the pacific, it actually set a world speed record from LA to the museum outside of DC; 1 hour and four minutes, averaging over 2,100mph. A record that still stands to this day, and will likely never be broken. Pretty incredible to think about for something that’s sitting in a museum… it was truly the pinnacle of high-speed aviation engineering and design.
Hey mate, great video and great channel all round. Congratulations on your career at Port Adelaide, that was a great goal against North to seal the game.
We managed that tour all in one day - flying down early from Stewart Int’t Airport (north of New York City) on a CRJ-200 (Independence Air, long-defunct), flying home in the evening. I’m too old for such nonsense now!!
I was actually born where these were based out of- Beale AFB, CA! My Dad was an air traffic controller. They also flew the KC-135Q which carried the special fuel for the SR and the TR-1 (advanced version of the U-2 basically). Beale had a museum back then and that was my first exposure to the B-17, B-25, and A-26. They even had the cockpit section of a combat veteran B-29 that you could sit in. When I was little the National Museum of the United States Air Force was just called the Air Force Museum and was only one building. How things have changed!
Glad you enjoy it. My aim is to create a lot of similar fact-orientated tours around significant aircraft. I'm editing my X-15 video now and my XB-70 video will be coming soon.
Great video Paul. Only issue I had was when discussing the engine you mention the turbines at the front sucking the air in. The J-58 has variable inlet guide vanes that direct air into the 8 stage compressor. The two stage turbine is behind the combustor section (as you mentioned), this drives the compressor section to draw more air in.
Outstanding videos man! You're on a roll! And I love it! 5:25 I may be mistaken, but on "normal" fighter engines (F100-PW-220/229 etc) those rings are flame holders, not the actual injectors. Of course this may differ on an SR71.
I remember as a young airman at Beale AFB back in 1975 going in at zero dark thirty to preflight the SR-71's. I was a radio troop at that time (328X0) and so remember being at the north hammerhead watching from very close the awesome take offs of this amazing jet. But I will admit it was a huge pain in the ass to work on!
TRULY AWESOME VID!!! I thought I knew all there was to know (from an AVGeek perspective anyway) about the Blackbird, but I learned a whole lot more. 😉👍✌️
Love this video too Paul! I have seen several SR-71 Blackbirds including one in Seattle at the Museum Of Flight, one in Washington DC at The Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum and a very rare SR-71BR model in Kalamazoo Michigan at the “Air Zoo!” Another great museum near my house!!!
@@PaulStewartAviation Yeah I knew it was something special I just couldn’t think what variant… Wow! I can’t believe you replied to my comment!! Love your channel Paul!
Gotta come do some of these videos from the Museum of Flight next to the Boeing factory here in Seattle. Between the SR-71, B52, Air Force One, Concord, Apollo F1 engines, etc, it’s amazing.
This is a much better video intro than you’ve previously done. Well done, keep it up. Can I recommend you post longer videos and go in to more detail? You obviously love this and know all kinds of small details. We’d love to hear them 👍 If you could add interviews while looking at the plans like Peninsular Seniors does it would be epic. Well done, keep it up 👍
Thanks for the feedback. Better than which previous videos? This is probably my new style that I've started doing back in 2021 with these museum tours with voiceovers. I must admit that I run out of footage which probably limits how much I can say (which I why I need to talk so fast haha). Interviews are very difficult to coordinate and they require a whole new level of sound equipment. But I take your point.
@@PaulStewartAviation I think the F117 one. It’s nice to have your intro at the beginning (who you are, what you do etc 👍). Get a bigger memory card, we want more of what you have to say 😉 Well done, you have a great channel and content. I could easily listen to 30 to 45 minutes on these :) Maybe you could pull some slides or facts from the internet to give some background info in to service stories, development etc? Some backstory? Any way, well done mate 👍
another fascinating video and interesting and detailed commentary. What an aircraft!... capable of 2200 mph (and probably more!), fuel being used as a heat sink because high velocity leads to high temps and lots of other interesting facts. Thanks again Paul for a video well done.
Paul - you do an excellent job explaining the details. You must spend many hours researching each airplane. Thanks for sharing. Please make a video about the Boomerang. FYI - I am a Chevy guy. :)
Thanks for watching everyone! If you enjoyed the video, please give it a thumbs up. And feel free to subscribe as I have many more videos coming over the next few months... X-15, F-22, YF-23, the first 747/727/737, B-17, B-29, B-36, B-47, XB-70, Hughes H-4 Hercules, YF-12, Space Shuttle Orbiter and more... (footage is already captured so I just need to edit it!)
just saw the B-29 video and loved it!!
Once spoke with a guy who did maintenance on an SR-71, they had a fun little parlor trick that they used to do with the new guys on base where they would drop a match in a puddle of JP7 and watch as rather than light the puddle on fire the match would simple fizzle out, that is how hard it is to ignite JP7.
Good shyt
Calling it now - this will blow up, never before have I seen so close to a Blackbird, this is incredible.
Cheers - I hope so! It cost quite a lot to fly to Dayton from Australia.
In Kansas they have an actual SR-71 on display at this place called the cosmosphere. You can touch the nose and see it up close
I’ve been next to the A-12 on the intrepid nurse I’m and an SR-71 in the greensomething aerospace museum in Oregon, forgot what it’s called, but go to those museums also including the Charleston, Patriots Point in South Carolina, It’s called the USS Yorktown, they are really cool!
@@OG_Wilikers haha yes the Evergreen Museum near Portland. Yes I also went there and filmed their Spruce Goose and the SR-71 which I'll probably add to my YF-12 video :)
@@PaulStewartAviation yes! That is the name, thank you, got lost in my noggin for a second😂
This to me has always been one of the most fascinating aircraft that has ever been made. The feats of engineering that were used on this machine is absolutely astounding, especially for being a product from decades and decades ago. It blows my mind sometimes what people can come up with and create, and the SR-71 further reinforces this. It's also one of the most beautiful looking aircraft as well in my opinion. I really appreciate your tour of this machine, this video was great!
Astonishing considering it was designed with a slide rule!
Finally someone who gets the camera up close! So everyone can appreciate the incredible engineering that went into this direct descendant of Icarus himself!
Yes, but Icarus didn't have heat dissipation systems on his airframe...
My grandparents used to take me to this air and space museum all the time and I remember always being blown away by the blackbird
What makes this plane really amazing is the design of the engines. Unlike almost any other turbojet engine. the J58 was like two engine designs in one; a more or less conventional turbojet with afterburner, but with the ability to gradually turn into an almost pure ramjet for ultra fast flight.
when i was a kid in the 90s, we were fortunate to be invited to Edwards AFB by Lockheed Martin and got to sit in that beautiful old bird. Even as a child, when you look at the instruments you think ''this thing flies that fast in space? ok...'' haha A very rare experience i will never forget!
The 71 also had no flaps or slats, hence the high landing speeds, which requires the beefy gear. Such an incredible aircraft! Borderline spacecraft…
Great video.
Alien technology by 1960s standards. It looks like a 2050 model year until you look in the cabin and see all the old-school dials
Its insane that the SR 71 was designed with a slide rule, pencils and math.. Crazy!!
Yeah bro and if this is what they were designing on pencil and paper think about what they're designing now with the advanced computer design software
These are gorgeous birds. They're among my favorites. The engineering for its Era was incredible.
I was stationed in Okinawa in the 80s and saw these magnificent aircraft come and go from Kadena AFB. They were magnificent.
It would have been incredible to see and hear them!
This thing always looks like straight out of Star Wars. Incredible engineering.
He's at the Wright Patterson Air Force Base Museum! I go there every year and love seeing the Blackbird.
It's an awesome museum!
Probably the most badass machine ever built by humanity
Looking at a plane or fighter plane up close is like seeing a race car up close, they look really nice on TV but when you see one in person you're surprised at how beat up they can be. Rust, dents, dings paint over spray but it really cool to see in my opinion, it makes it more real.
Used to watch these a lot as a kid in Okinawa in the 80’s. They had cool flames out of the back and like the U2, you could still hear them long after you couldn’t see them anymore.
Awesome video. Also impressive, that thunderbird in the background. My grandfather was a mechanic for the Thunderbirds in 1957-1958. Just brought up some good sentimental memories of him.
In 1990 I was a kid working at a gas station in New Jersey and saw what I thought was a meteor in the sky traveling from west to east. It was really high and way faster than an airplane. I always wondered what it was and why there was nothing in the news about it. It took about 20 years for me to finally find out that it was one of the SR-71s doing the cross country speed record.
Its just wild how the top secret supersonic spy plane space jet that costs a giga fortune many years ago is just casually breaking cross country speed records
I worked on these birds for over 5 years. Everything about them is remarkable. I still work on parts of them to this day. I make rings out of mission flown titanium parts of their exhaust nozzles.
What do you mean by "still making". Are they further improving the sr 71? You mean it's still under more development? Successor?
Thank you for making this video! I have been in love with the SR71 since a child. Being unable to walk well, I never thought I would ever be able to see this plane in such detail as you have shown. Thank you Thank You!!
Thanks Paul for another very informative tour. This aircraft has always amazed me for 60s technology. I had the pleasure of getting up close to one on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier Intrepid in NY.
my all time favorite plane ever ...my dad was a pilot ,when i was just a twarp , he bought one for my birthday , we used to talk HOURS about planes and this thing was just on an other level in so manny ways , one of kind and still holds so manny records till this day ,that never be broken ever , hope you can do a vid of the harrier and the su 27 , i was lucky enough to climb in the sukoi27 on the FIDAE '94 and let me tell you , the cabin is just insane , those where the days........
Excellent tour of the plane. Best I have ever seen, actually. And to think this thing was designed and built using slide rulers!
This thing never ceases to blow my mind.
Wow really awesome videos , great descriptions and straight to the point. No annoying music. A+
I have never seen such a detailed video about this aircraft. Absolutely wonderful, beautiful. Thanks.
Glad you enjoyed it!
This has been my favorite plane for a couple of decades. I learned a lot from this video and saw views I never thought I’d see. Very thoughtfully put together, Paul! I’m subscribing.
Cheers - more videos coming
I've had the pleasure to see one in person before and it's quite the machine. Gotta be my favorite jet also. Its an iconic jet. So much history, wild to think for a long time it was top secret and some things still are. Top speed still classified even
Endless thank you for this incredible video Doctor, I've never thought of getting so close to the SR-71 and it's even more enjoyable with your introduction!!
Thanks to those who gave you access to get ao close to the SR-71, splendid!!
Glad you enjoyed it!
@Paul Stewart No rush and no pressure, I'm really looking forward to enjoying your video for the Hercules and maybe even the Space Shuttle!! 😊😊
I live 5 minutes away from this airbase. I feel more appreciate everytime someone from so far away has such appreciation for aircraft that's located next to me:)
Thank you so much for showing us the "transformer" Jetfire in detail. I've always wanted to see that plane up close!
My Father, Lucio Blanco welded the titanium on these awesome jets! I'm 65 now and was born in Torrance in 1958. Thanks for sharing! 😇
I was just at the Pima Air and Space museum a few weeks ago, looks like you had some footage of the SR-71 and side-looking radar nose cone from that exhibit. It was INCREDIBLE seeing one of these in person!
Great video!
Cheers and yep I visited PIMA as well and just uploaded my tour through their B-29 and B17. :)
Not watched it yet but I recognise that background! I like the 'Blackbirds' but the sexiest thing in that museum has got to be the XB-70 Valkyrie :)
Yep a video is coming for the XB-70 too :)
@@PaulStewartAviation Excellent! My mate and I walked around that place for two days and didn't see everything. The tiltrotor history they have there (and at Udvar-Hazy) is impressive as well, tho don't know if you're into history vids. Cheers.
I went to see one at Duxford,UK . Stunning craft , feels very odd it will be good in 50 years time when we have Aurora on show lol
I was wondering if this was in my neck of the woods. The Air Force Museum is quite something special. When anyone visits Dayton, I suggest it as a must-do.
This and the F-117 were my favourite aircraft as a young fella. I had the models and the posters and still love them to this day 👌Awesome looking pieces of kit!
two of my favourite jets A10 warthog and SR71 blackbird two greatest aircraft ever built
Thank you very much, Paul, for sharing another awesome Video with us.
Incredible aircraft..LA story by the pilot goes great with your technical prowess
Awesome video and very interesting! Clear and well lit given the subject matter - amazing to see all the rivets in the skin close up. superb aircraft!!!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you for this video - very interesting. I love this museum, too - one of my favorite places to visit!
Great tour of the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird amazing piece of machinery.
Glad you enjoyed it
Great video Paul! This has to be the most detailed tour we've seen around the SR-71 on RUclips?!
your videos are superb and so informative and interesting . Well done, I wish I could see them live.
Another really enjoyable tour Paul! I had heard that the fuel would leak onto the ground, which I thought sounded dangerous (!!) so it was interesting to hear about the TB. I look forward to the next 'tour'!!
During the summer of 1989 my dad brought me up to Beale AFB to watch an SR-71 launch before it was retired. The first impression I got as we approached the hangar was the strong smell of what you would have mistaken as charcoal lighter fluid. It was the JP-7 fuel puddled on the floor of the open hangar.
The most unusual sight came once the engines were spun up, because the air being drawn into the engines while the Blackbird sat inside the hangar would occasionally create a vortex in the fuel puddle directly beneath the inlet. It was a short, very squat cone of mist that formed for a few seconds on the surface of the puddle like a strange miniature tornado.
JP7 was thin but extremely non-volatile, even less volatile than diesel, because they needed it to serve as cooling fluid for the plane's skin at Mach 3 without igniting. Considering JP7 required triethylborane to ignite it in the engine, I doubt it was much of a fire hazard on the ground.
I'd be a little more concerned that JP7 was full of cesium to help disguise the exhaust plume...
Great videos as always Paul, you do it really well, easy to follow and no messing about, always like your style. Cheers.
Thanks! I’m off to the usa next month and filming more
Great video as always. I had the opportunity to see an SR-71 at Prima Air & Space Museum in Tucson Arizona. Seeing the airplane in person is a complete different experience.
I fully agree Sergio! It’s much larger than what I was expecting (the first time I saw the M-21 in SEA). Ditto the B-2z
What a fantastic insight! Thank you so much for sharing. This has to be my all time favourite plane
I've been blessed to have seen one of these fly. Approach, flyover, and land, then take off. I was very young and it was one of the best days with my father. Those were few and far between.
Me too at Farnborough Air Show. Amazing things.
Add is playing atm but im really stoked about this channel the f22 tour was so cool.
Brilliant Paul... as always, keep em' coming
After watching the Skunkworks podcast, I have even more respect for the engineering that went into developing this aircraft
Very in depth research mate. Just discovered you on RUclips. Love the videos.
thanks for the detail on the chine ,showing the ecm, the geek in me loves this stuff !
When they had the X aircraft in the separate building years ago, you could walk right under its relative, the YF-12 with no barrier.
Great video, nice to see the Udvar Hazy SR-71 as well, she’s right down the road from me. You had mentioned the speed record from the Atlantic to the pacific, it actually set a world speed record from LA to the museum outside of DC; 1 hour and four minutes, averaging over 2,100mph. A record that still stands to this day, and will likely never be broken.
Pretty incredible to think about for something that’s sitting in a museum… it was truly the pinnacle of high-speed aviation engineering and design.
dayton ohio airforce museum. The greatest American Aviation museum in the world
Hey mate, great video and great channel all round. Congratulations on your career at Port Adelaide, that was a great goal against North to seal the game.
👍
amazing how that engine didnt rip those wings off, so narrow
Fascinating! My son and I visited the Udvar-Hazy Museum in Virginia. We took in the SR-71 display there, as well as many other aircraft.
We managed that tour all in one day - flying down early from Stewart Int’t Airport (north of New York City) on a CRJ-200 (Independence Air, long-defunct), flying home in the evening. I’m too old for such nonsense now!!
Awesome! The SR-71 has been my favourite aircraft since I was a child.
Same!
Please do more of these videos, this one made my day, well done with the content my friend, just subscribed
Thanks, will do!
Amazing knowledge from your part - well done
Was in Okinawa in the mid 80s when these were still operational. Saw them a lot. Never gets old.
Paul great vlog !
In short, the SR 71 is pure genius! Kelly Johnson is an underrated aviation savant!
Not underrated, recognised for a long time as a one of a kind genius.
Certainly NOT underrated, he has and still will get all the credit for the SR-71 coming to fruition
I was actually born where these were based out of- Beale AFB, CA! My Dad was an air traffic controller. They also flew the KC-135Q which carried the special fuel for the SR and the TR-1 (advanced version of the U-2 basically). Beale had a museum back then and that was my first exposure to the B-17, B-25, and A-26. They even had the cockpit section of a combat veteran B-29 that you could sit in. When I was little the National Museum of the United States Air Force was just called the Air Force Museum and was only one building. How things have changed!
"Behold, the eternal glory of Jetfire!"
The Sr-71, My second favorite plane. Second to the A-10 Warthog.
Great video Paul. I love the story of the former SR-71 pilot & his knew reo asking the tower for a speed check. Very amusing
Glad you enjoyed it
Been waiting for a video like this for a while!
Glad you enjoy it. My aim is to create a lot of similar fact-orientated tours around significant aircraft. I'm editing my X-15 video now and my XB-70 video will be coming soon.
Brilliant video Paul.
Good one Paul. Very informative. Thanks for posting!
Glad you enjoyed it
Now that's a serious airspace / airplanes museum!
My grandpa worked on the sr71s avionics when he was younger. Such a beautiful aircraft
Very cool!
My Dad worked on the SR71 ECMs. It's the greatest aircraft ever made in my opinion and it was always such a treat to visit Udvar Hazy center with him.
Awesome awesome tour.
Great video Paul. Only issue I had was when discussing the engine you mention the turbines at the front sucking the air in. The J-58 has variable inlet guide vanes that direct air into the 8 stage compressor. The two stage turbine is behind the combustor section (as you mentioned), this drives the compressor section to draw more air in.
Thanks for the clarification :)
Outstanding videos man! You're on a roll! And I love it!
5:25 I may be mistaken, but on "normal" fighter engines (F100-PW-220/229 etc) those rings are flame holders, not the actual injectors. Of course this may differ on an SR71.
I remember as a young airman at Beale AFB back in 1975 going in at zero dark thirty to preflight the SR-71's. I was a radio troop at that time (328X0) and so remember being at the north hammerhead watching from very close the awesome take offs of this amazing jet. But I will admit it was a huge pain in the ass to work on!
I live 20 minutes from the USAF Museum in Dayton. Seeing the SR-71 right next to the B2 Spirit is a sight to behold
TRULY AWESOME VID!!! I thought I knew all there was to know (from an AVGeek perspective anyway) about the Blackbird, but I learned a whole lot more. 😉👍✌️
Glad you enjoyed it! More videos are coming :)
You've got some FANTASTIC videos 😎👍
Glad you like them!
Love this video too Paul!
I have seen several SR-71 Blackbirds including one in Seattle at the Museum Of Flight, one in Washington DC at The Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum and a very rare SR-71BR model in Kalamazoo Michigan at the “Air Zoo!” Another great museum near my house!!!
Cheers mate. The one in Seattle is actually a M-21 drone carrier and I may put that into a separate video :)
@@PaulStewartAviation Yeah I knew it was something special I just couldn’t think what variant…
Wow! I can’t believe you replied to my comment!! Love your channel Paul!
cheers my friend
Gotta come do some of these videos from the Museum of Flight next to the Boeing factory here in Seattle. Between the SR-71, B52, Air Force One, Concord, Apollo F1 engines, etc, it’s amazing.
Yep Ive filmed there and working to edit those videos in coming weeks :)
Turbines catch fluid motion and turn it into mechanical rotation. It's the compressors that "blow" air.
I was Tech on the SR 71 and they believe me are amazing aircraft.
Prove it.
Paul your doing a great job. keep up the good work.
Thanks 👍
Greatest aircraft ever made, hands down...
Very well done video sir. I didn't know about the TEB.
glad you enjoyed the video
Saw one land and take off again in the 90's. Beautiful
thank u cod for making me aware of this beauty
Kelly Johnson, The man who could see air!
Amazing video I will go to that museum in time
I've walked around one of these here in Ogden Utah at Hill Airforce Base museum. Awesome
The last time I was at the Air Force Museum there was a former SR 71 pilot answering questions from the visitors!
This is a much better video intro than you’ve previously done. Well done, keep it up.
Can I recommend you post longer videos and go in to more detail? You obviously love this and know all kinds of small details. We’d love to hear them 👍
If you could add interviews while looking at the plans like Peninsular Seniors does it would be epic.
Well done, keep it up 👍
Thanks for the feedback. Better than which previous videos? This is probably my new style that I've started doing back in 2021 with these museum tours with voiceovers.
I must admit that I run out of footage which probably limits how much I can say (which I why I need to talk so fast haha). Interviews are very difficult to coordinate and they require a whole new level of sound equipment. But I take your point.
@@PaulStewartAviation I think the F117 one. It’s nice to have your intro at the beginning (who you are, what you do etc 👍). Get a bigger memory card, we want more of what you have to say 😉 Well done, you have a great channel and content. I could easily listen to 30 to 45 minutes on these :) Maybe you could pull some slides or facts from the internet to give some background info in to service stories, development etc? Some backstory? Any way, well done mate 👍
@@legendhasit2568 Thanks. Yep I picked up a new 256gb micro SD card when I was in the States after I filled up my old one :)
WOW My Favourite Plane 😍. SR-71 BLACKBIRD 😍. LOCKHEED SR-71 WAS & IS STILL MY FAVOURITE PLANE 😍
another fascinating video and interesting and detailed commentary. What an aircraft!... capable of 2200 mph (and probably more!), fuel being used as a heat sink because high velocity leads to high temps and lots of other interesting facts. Thanks again Paul for a video well done.
Looking at this bird with all the dings and bangs on it, thinking they used it so much more than they actually told us!
Nice video, I learned about the multi roll noses today didn’t know that…
Paul - you do an excellent job explaining the details. You must spend many hours researching each airplane. Thanks for sharing. Please make a video about the Boomerang. FYI - I am a Chevy guy. :)
My pleasure!
This is my all time favorite video ever