@@bridgetc.taylor257 Edwards AFB? I grew up there and got to see everything fly… B-1’s, B-2’s, B-52’s.. tons of fighters.. space shuttle 3 times and the SR-71 fly a handful of times
To me the SR-71 is the most dramatic and stunning aircraft ever built, and man there's plenty of competition, among them the B-2 & the F-117. To know that you were among the select few to have flown it is a colossal accomplishment.
Theres plenty of em in museums....just cant see one fly again! They are awesome in museums....there is one at Robins AFB...its in a room with a U2 as well!!!!!
@nowthatsfunny1 if you didn't already possess the famous "espiritu de corp" before that, I'll wager that Blackbird flying overhead ignited an inferno that's still cooking today!
I worked on SRs in 1983-84 in the USAF. This video is captured from a sim - the actual plane looks very different on takeoff, including blue afterburner flame.
I was a jet mech on those. What is Really beautiful is when they go into afterburner at night. The supersonic effect on the exhaust makes it into giant blue diamonds.
Kelly Johnson when he was kid at High school was Bullied and the Bullies didn't know Viking Biserk Running through his Blood and He designed with Slide Rule Computer off those Days what a Badass.
My first experience with the Black Bird. Hovering over Edward's AFB in a tanker, awaiting her fuel top-off. Saw her leave the runway, and a few seconds later, she was behind us. We were hovering around 30,000. I still have the pictures.. 35mm
I was at bitburg in the early 80, you had to wait 30 min when the craft landed it's was hot! Jet Mac who transferred out of SR.told US bout working on machine. Crazy!
hey true story guys, I was in the Navy back in the nineties aboard a carrier the USS Carl Vinson and I used to maintain they have 14 Tomcat that was a bad dude brother that thing could move the Navy decommissioned the F-14 Tomcats in 2006 because the airframes were just wrapped out on them and they were very very expensive to maintain and it was just more cost-effective to just go ahead and destroy them so that Iran can't get a hold of parts for them
Okinawa, 66,67, 76,77, I watched it many times, even at night. 77,getting out soon I was invited to go over and check out one of the SR71s, even get into the cockpit.
@@mkvv5687 I've read the book The Right Stuff. I've even watched the movie. The movie, I'm only interested in the Yeager part. I met Yeager at Mojave Airport during the roll out of the Voyager. I also met him during the plenty of Air Shows I attended at Edwards Air Force Base.
Kelly Johnson was a genius Aeronautical engineer to think he built this aircraft in the early sixties to mid 60's what he could have built today it was a beautiful beast.
when I saw one for real at the Toronto Airshow sitting near the CNE just on the grass near Lakeshore Blvd. When the pilot hit the afterburner briefly it spit out concentric rings of perfect bluish and orange flame what looked like a hundred feet behind each engine. It was 30 years ago and I still remember it so clearly. Of course my description does not do it justice.
I knew an SR71 pilot and he could tell some great stories. I remember he had a picture of a pack of cigarettes on a table.... It was framed and in his kitchen. I asked what the significance was and all he said was he took the photo 'at altitude' and the cigarette pack was on a table in the USSR.
Saw 1 take off & went straight up at an air show.... I remember thinking well that's where at least some of the triangle shaped UFO sightings have come from.... Dull black & extremely triangular looking at the top of it was bizzare....
Interesting thing: someone asked Wilbur Wright if he was impressed by how fast planes had gotten in the 1930’s - he said that he was far more impressed by how much weight they could carry.
117's are not retired they are reassigned because of their short range and can be recommissioned at any time. they still are active and get proper maintenance just in case
@@Johnnyblash123 But NASA does still use them for research... I watched a military video on the Blackbird not long ago that said NASA still uses a couple of them for some high altitude research projects...and I'm sure they had plenty of spare parts stored..if not I'm sure Lockheed Skunk Works would be happy to make them whatever they want... Especially since Lockheed is the main company in the US Military Industrial Complex...
Don't get me wrong Blackbirds are the most badass plane that ever flew, but it's very true that this aircraft no longer has a purpose in 2024. Reconnaissance is all satellite and realtime
I showed my dad an article in popular science about this when I first found out about it in 80's or 90's, can't remember, ...dad, look at this cool new jet. He chuckled and said he knew about it in the 50's, he was a liaison and carried plans for part of it, nobody was allowed to see the whole plan together from what I remember.
Saw it in the 80's at an airshow at Edwards Air Force base in California when it was still in service. The fuel tanks at altitude expand so on the ground it leaks fuel.
I was at tech training at shepherds air force base when one landed with a engine out. It had 10 or so armed police walking around at all times. A c130 came in an parked near it on second day. We could see it fromladders we put up on side of a work shed. A bunch of guys from that c130 worked on it. Next morning just like this it took off. OMG athe amount of fuel it leaked on the ground and runway. I thought for sure it was going to catch fire n burn up. This brings back a great memory
I have to say, as someone who has watched the Blackbird takeoff at night, the exhaust plume is not realistic in DCS. It's actually two very long purplish flames. Much longer than the ones seen here.
Incredibly realistic game graphics. I read 2019 and I read "Syria" Even if still active, the USAF wouldn't land anywhere near Syria if the Blackbird ran out of gas. 😂
I remember 1980-something the SR-71 boomed overhead and launched straight up with a deafening roar right over the schoolyard. It looked like the Grim Reaper.
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Flight Sim graphics just keep getting better and better
Game graphics in general are also getting better
Totally!!! Almost had me fooled!!!!
So much a computer game. 71s don’t fly anymore
@@kenclark9888 - Nor do they have flame cones like that. It's more a blueish trail of pulses.
@@mark-1234 sounds oddly beautiful
1962/1963, I had the pleasure of monitoring test flights for this absolutely incredible aircraft!! Thank you very much!!
I believe that would have been the A-12 the SR’s came along in 65-5
My husband served in the Air Force base from 1964 to 1968, he was guarding the SR 71s.
I'm too young to have ever seen a Blackbird actually fly, but I love these jets
@@bridgetc.taylor257 Edwards AFB? I grew up there and got to see everything fly… B-1’s, B-2’s, B-52’s.. tons of fighters.. space shuttle 3 times and the SR-71 fly a handful of times
There's one at Pima in Tucson, beautiful machine. I just sat there appreciating it...
To me the SR-71 is the most dramatic and stunning aircraft ever built, and man there's plenty of competition, among them the B-2 & the F-117. To know that you were among the select few to have flown it is a colossal accomplishment.
I wish I could've been old enough to have seen this aircraft fly in person. It's by far my favorite!
I've only seen one in flight at EAA AIRVENTURE OSHKOSH that was back in '97. It truly was the most incredible thing I've ever seen.
Theres plenty of em in museums....just cant see one fly again! They are awesome in museums....there is one at Robins AFB...its in a room with a U2 as well!!!!!
I saw one fly over the 1987 Air Force Academy graduation ceremony.
@nowthatsfunny1 if you didn't already possess the famous "espiritu de corp" before that, I'll wager that Blackbird flying overhead ignited an inferno that's still cooking today!
Are used to sit at the end of the runway and watch them takeoff. It felt like an earthquake.
“Oh you beautiful thing!” Absolutely agree❤❤❤
"Oh You Beautiful Beast! that's bad ass " that's fricken awesome, that was bad ass"
"Ohh you beautiful beast! Frickin' awesome. That was badass." Love the sound of the flyover too!
You can experience it for yourself if you play DCS
Jet Noise-The sound of freedom. I was Security Police and when I was E2 to E3 I walked the flight line and I loved the smell of Jet fuel burning!
Fighter noise.
Sound of Freedom.
JP8 is like perfume
Marker sniffer lol
The most beautiful piece of aviation in history
No "space" shuttle comes close to the aviation wonder!
Not a bad animation either.
@@johnpopoff7950 Sim
History so far
The Blackbird and The Concorde, both legendary!!!!
I worked on SRs in 1983-84 in the USAF. This video is captured from a sim - the actual plane looks very different on takeoff, including blue afterburner flame.
I'd like this twice if I could. Nice tribute, just need some actual climbout simulations.
And they would not be taken off from syria.
I did too, from 84-87. FMS.
Correct....I saw the habu take off and land countless times at Kadena...beautiful sight
@@richardunger2177 beautiful base.
I was a jet mech on those. What is Really beautiful is when they go into afterburner at night. The supersonic effect on the exhaust makes it into giant blue diamonds.
Kelly and the crew at skunkworks done an AWSOME job! 😊
Kelly Johnson when he was kid at High school was Bullied and the Bullies didn't know Viking Biserk Running through his Blood and He designed with Slide Rule Computer off those Days what a Badass.
Better job an incredible job! Almost unbelievable! Just awesome!
Same height. California. Flow over me. Picking trash in the highway. Community Service. Still. What a Sight. 🤗
My first experience with the Black Bird.
Hovering over Edward's AFB in a tanker, awaiting her fuel top-off. Saw her leave the runway, and a few seconds later, she was behind us.
We were hovering around 30,000.
I still have the pictures.. 35mm
Man, now i wanna see SR-71 from that perspective! What a aircraft !
I saw the Blackbird fly-by during an open house at Norton AFB, now a civilian airport. Pretty awesome.
I just wish you could share them with us!
Great graphics, the SR-71 Afterburner flames are blue I believe!
Yes, and blue diamonds when they really it it - it's a supersonic shock wave effect.
That is a beautiful thing to see it in person ❤
it s a game
I was at bitburg in the early 80, you had to wait 30 min when the craft landed it's was hot!
Jet Mac who transferred out of SR.told US bout working on machine.
Crazy!
Tech from the 1950s, those generations knew what they were doing
YES THEY DID !
no this is tech from 2010
Technically the 60s but yeah.
@@mdemian1968 No, the 50's. Engines started in mid 50's.
BACK WHEN PEOPLE HAD MORELS, AND JOBS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Djimon Hounsou said, "I didn't know men could build such things". Gladiator. Coloseum scene.
I remember the sonic booms, great memories in the 80’s, also a few airshows back then.
Sonic booms regularly in the 80's in Gunnison Colorado
2019
This is a video game
Even if this is a video game it still brings back the memories for those of us who have witnessed it in person!
@@donhenn4396 Amen I wish it was in service to this day….
The graphics are just insanely amazing
I have to agree.
A beautiful beast.
I thought that plane was retired?😎😎😎
@@kennethjarvis268
The SR has been retired for some time now.
@@kennethjarvis268 its a flight sim
This machine and the Tomcat ... Two design masterpieces. They look so good😱😱😱
My top two also.
why dont they use the tomcat, THAT MY FAVORITTTTTEEE
hey true story guys, I was in the Navy back in the nineties aboard a carrier the USS Carl Vinson and I used to maintain they have 14 Tomcat that was a bad dude brother that thing could move the Navy decommissioned the F-14 Tomcats in 2006 because the airframes were just wrapped out on them and they were very very expensive to maintain and it was just more cost-effective to just go ahead and destroy them so that Iran can't get a hold of parts for them
@@waynelalonde4778 cool 😊👍👍👍
Yf-23 Black widow
Even over half century later since its debut, there are no other aircraft that can rival the majestic beauty of the SR71 Blackbird.
Mig-25 Edge of Space
Form follows function. Apple dominated for years because Jobs was an art student first.
Just imagine being the pilot sitting in that thing oh my God I would just freak out honestly!
I'd be ok to pay more taxes to keep this magnificent ship flying today
same.
Вы платите налоги, только для поддержания войны на других материках!! В данный момент на Украине и Палестине!!!
Well said@@renatus88
Pointless😢
@user-tz3je9ep1s it's to stop the world from going up in flames, you Europeans have a knack for creating wars that engulf the world
Okinawa, 66,67, 76,77, I watched it many times, even at night. 77,getting out soon I was invited to go over and check out one of the SR71s, even get into the cockpit.
Such a beautiful plane it is awesome
"Oh You Beautiful Beast!" that was frick'n awesome, that was bad ass."
Yes it is and was!!!
I couldn't agree more with you!
You should see the SR on a moonless night at Edwards Air Force Base.
I used to watch it take off on swing shift at Eddies, great memories
Edwards Air Force Base, California... Smack dab in the Mojave desert..... I loved every moment of my youth on that base!!!
@@donhenn4396
I was there from 1984 - 1992.
My biological father worked there and at Groom Lake aka Area 51.
Some of the best memories as a teenager.
Amongst others, the book “The Right Stuff” and General Yeager’s autobiography talk about the early days at Edwards. And the mystique.
@@mkvv5687
I've read the book The Right Stuff. I've even watched the movie. The movie, I'm only interested in the Yeager part.
I met Yeager at Mojave Airport during the roll out of the Voyager. I also met him during the plenty of Air Shows I attended at Edwards Air Force Base.
One of the most mysterious and bad ass machines of aviation i have ever seen
Mesmerising, I can’t stop playing this. TY for this clip.
SR-71s are still the fastest air-breathers ever built. Imagine putting an WSO in there just to set intercept vectors for ICBMs.
That made me giggle like a child .... sweet
I am so amazed at this piece of work it should still be in production if you want to know my belief
So so beautiful
That’s so beautiful to here and see 💯
Beautiful
Kelly Johnson was a genius Aeronautical engineer to think he built this aircraft in the early sixties to mid 60's what he could have built today it was a beautiful beast.
She is beautiful…after all these years…
when I saw one for real at the Toronto Airshow sitting near the CNE just on the grass near Lakeshore Blvd. When the pilot hit the afterburner briefly it spit out concentric rings of perfect bluish and orange flame what looked like a hundred feet behind each engine. It was 30 years ago and I still remember it so clearly. Of course my description does not do it justice.
Perfection
I knew an SR71 pilot and he could tell some great stories. I remember he had a picture of a pack of cigarettes on a table.... It was framed and in his kitchen. I asked what the significance was and all he said was he took the photo 'at altitude' and the cigarette pack was on a table in the USSR.
He definitely was good at telling stories.
God I love jet noise.
Saw 1 take off & went straight up at an air show.... I remember thinking well that's where at least some of the triangle shaped UFO sightings have come from.... Dull black & extremely triangular looking at the top of it was bizzare....
Memory is a funny thing. This plane is not capable of flying straight up for multiple reasons. In fact it is a slow climber compared to fighters.
Wilbur and Orville would of love to see this
Interesting thing: someone asked Wilbur Wright if he was impressed by how fast planes had gotten in the 1930’s - he said that he was far more impressed by how much weight they could carry.
I thought the sr-71’s were retired
Yup so are F-117's but they keep a few on standby for tests and stuff.
117's are not retired they are reassigned because of their short range and can be recommissioned at any time. they still are active and get proper maintenance just in case
This is a game
@@theboothy91 damn I thought this was actually real
Games have gotten so realistic
@@THE_flushingtoilet yea pretty much
Beautiful machine! Greetings from Brazil.
Oh my G that's impressive. It's like 2 lightsabers.
I remember seeing one of these on static display at RAF Duxford a few years ago, awesome design.
Yup, sure is!! A beautiful beast...
Американцы молодцы это просто фантастика это аппарат должен был выходит в середине 21 века.
Aren't we sexy taking off at night . Love it ♥️ ⚘️
I agree Linda...i think a Phantom F4 is just as pretty! 😊
Awesome jet, i was in Okinawa in the early 80s. It was awesome seeing it take off and then watch it circle the island so it slow down to land.
-71s retired in 1999, the last two operated by NASA for research.
It's dcs
@@Johnnyblash123 But NASA does still use them for research... I watched a military video on the Blackbird not long ago that said NASA still uses a couple of them for some high altitude research projects...and I'm sure they had plenty of spare parts stored..if not I'm sure Lockheed Skunk Works would be happy to make them whatever they want... Especially since Lockheed is the main company in the US Military Industrial Complex...
@Stonehaven228 the video is a game lol what are you talking about
@@stonehaven2289 😂😂😂
@@stonehaven2289 Completely wrong. NASA retired theirs in 1999. The special titanium tooling was all destroyed so no parts are available.
Beautiful, but you can’t beat an English Electric Lightning giving it the beans at close quarters.
JUST Beautifullllllllllllllll. and there's nothing you can do about it
Except to tell you it's just a sim.
Don't get me wrong Blackbirds are the most badass plane that ever flew, but it's very true that this aircraft no longer has a purpose in 2024. Reconnaissance is all satellite and realtime
I spent many hours around these magnificent airplanes when I was in the USAF.
I showed my dad an article in popular science about this when I first found out about it in 80's or 90's, can't remember, ...dad, look at this cool new jet. He chuckled and said he knew about it in the 50's, he was a liaison and carried plans for part of it, nobody was allowed to see the whole plan together from what I remember.
I know this video is dated 2019 but this ST-71 is not outdated
My eyes and ears thank you Mr. Kelly Johnson😊
Magic. Seen it in 1976. Pure magic. Violates all aviation rules. ALL of them. Deal with it kids. Cheers!
The plane runs on JP-7 jet fuel not magic. Please explain how this planes "violates" even one "aviation rule".
@@bearclaw5115 Read it again:
"Magic. Seen it in 1976. Pure magic. Violates all aviation rules. ALL of them. Deal with it kids. Cheers"
Gamer
Saw it in the 80's at an airshow at Edwards Air Force base in California when it was still in service. The fuel tanks at altitude expand so on the ground it leaks fuel.
Literally looks like something out of a sci-fi film 🤯
Glad he’s on our side
" welp, we're telling everybody about the aliens we may as well just start showing him this while they're waiting"😂
I fell off the wing of one and actually landed on my feet with tool's still in my hands at Barksdale AFB. The engine's on these are frikin massive.
Beautiful Beast... He said it right!
What an absolutely gorgeous bird it doesn’t get any better than that 🤙🤙🤙🤙🤙🤙🤙🤙🤙🤙🤙🤙🤙🤙
Behold the glory of *Jetfire!*
Thank you Kelly Johnson..... Without you and your vision, these aircraft would never have been❤
I loved his description of “you beautiful beast”
when i was yuong dream to be a pilot tnx sir ,from the smile people PHILIPPINES
Beautiful beast indeed ♥️♥️♥️
I was at tech training at shepherds air force base when one landed with a engine out. It had 10 or so armed police walking around at all times. A c130 came in an parked near it on second day. We could see it fromladders we put up on side of a work shed. A bunch of guys from that c130 worked on it. Next morning just like this it took off. OMG athe amount of fuel it leaked on the ground and runway. I thought for sure it was going to catch fire n burn up. This brings back a great memory
ha ha - I remember drip pans. We had to put them under the SR in the hangar to catch all the leaking fuel. But JP-7 isn't that flammable.
The SR drips because the Titanium expands when it goes supersonic, since it gets so hot. So it contracts on the ground and thus, the drips.
I have to say, as someone who has watched the Blackbird takeoff at night, the exhaust plume is not realistic in DCS. It's actually two very long purplish flames. Much longer than the ones seen here.
Looks spectacular 😍
Still sounds & looks
badass 🔥
That's a Beautiful Morning
There is no other way to describe that plane than something magical. Art and technology combined to produce power and beauty.
That's so badass straight up bro love that jet
the thrust flames (I'm sure that's not the right term) are so cool!
Yes, the Ageless Lady In Black still looks beautiful at any time of day. This sunset accentuates her spectacular curves.
🇺🇸👦👍✈️
Incredibly realistic game graphics.
I read 2019 and I read "Syria"
Even if still active, the USAF wouldn't land anywhere near Syria if the Blackbird ran out of gas. 😂
I would go as far as to say that even God has to be impressed by this man made creation
I watched the SR-71 aka "Habu" take off and land on Okinawa Aug74 - Sep 75, when I was stationed at Camp Foster....Unbelievably. Semper Fi
Got to love when a video which doesn’t do it justice makes the hair stand up all over your body is awesome
Lockheed Martin Headquarters, 1960s.
One of the top engineers snorts a line of coke during lunch break: "what if we outrun the missile?"
"oh, you beautiful beast" indeed
Beautiful engineering and configurations. Hypersonic!
Yeppers For Ever Me and Daddy Saw one at Huntsville Alabama SR 71 Blackbird ,
Still the best jet planet earth ever produced.
Simply amazing best ever 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
I remember seeing one at a airforce base, slick, black and red, only wish i can see it flying, that was when i was 7 in middle school, 30 now
I get goosebumps watching that thing
Gives me chills!
God bless the U.S.A.!!
BEAUTIFUL AND LISTEN TO HER,,, THE POWER
What a Magnificent Aircraft..
Considered to be the second greatest technological achievement of mankind
I remember 1980-something the SR-71 boomed overhead and launched straight up with a deafening roar right over the schoolyard. It looked like the Grim Reaper.
It could not fly straight up or even close.
But it did. Sorry to inform you.@@bearclaw5115
@@sunshinecloudyno it can't, more than a 3 degree up on the nose and it would break apart, do some reseach