The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird's METAL tires!
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- Опубликовано: 7 окт 2024
- Erin takes a look at the SR-71's silver tires.
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You've got the 117 and the sr71, if you manage to get a b2 you'd have the full family of stealth bombers. Well, the ones WE know about at least 😅😉
B2 is still in service unlike the f117 and the sr71
@@shayanirenberg3294 Yeah, I guess I didn't want to write an essay so I used "if and could" in my phrasing, althou you might have mistaken it for would since it's abbreviated. So anyway, I noticed that in the aircraft world people is very picky and precise, almost ocd (not this case), and I come from the custom automotive world so I know a thing or two about people splitting hair... 😅
Sr71 isnt a bomber
@@nicksothep8472 "would" wouldn't have exactly been an incorrect or inaccurate word choice there, though.
@@bambon6184 The SR-71 itself isn't, the A-12 (which is basically a just a SR-71) is capable of bombing.
I got to see this particular SR-71B fly for the last time in the Edwards Air Force Base airshow in the fall of 1997!
Thank you. My dad was a welder for Skunkworks in the late 50's early 60's
I'd like to understand what Erin knows about; hydraulics, sheet metal, welding, general fabrication, battery maintenance, housing standards as it relates to large or small aircraft, but mostly; I like Erin
I dreamed (or imagined) metal tires yesterday!
How is this possible
Maybe you saw one of the many many MANY cases of metal wheels that are around us every single day...
The SR-71 is just another Conestoga Wagon.
I’d like a used up Blackbird tire, anything they threw out for scrap.
I know where you can get a few, and they are all autographed by many of the aircrew and maintenance members.
@@danfreeman9079 sounds expensive
I’ve been fortunate enough to see 3 of them in Museums. McMinnville Oregon, Pima Air & Space, Hill Airbase.
You need to see the one at Duxford in the UK then as well 👍
My brains says thank you for giving it this yummy knowledge. Nom. Nom. Nom.
Nice and informative. Also the wheels sat inside the JP-7 fuel to help keep them cooled as the JP-7 is very heat resistant and has a very high flash point. Fact pools of JP-7 on the runway would put out a book of lit matches with no chance of catching fire and exploding.
great video! thankyou.
Well, if your Jeep goes mach 3+, then they would probobly work.
Blonde lady, into airplanes and drives a jeep. Be still my beating heart🤣🤣
Huh, never even thought of that, given how hot the SR-71 can get, normal tires would probably be rubber soup by the time they were ready to land
Super,many thanks.
They could maybe fit on your jeep if you get the right rims. I've seen A-7s with P185-70-R14s.
Thanks for the info !
METAL and.. well, rubber too.
Isnt aluminum and rubber the main ingredients in certain types of rocket motors?
She's wrong, they're not metal infused, it's simply an aluminum paint they're coated with, you can clearly see where it's worn off on the tread face exposing the black rubber underneath, if the rubber was infused with aluminum you wouldn't see that because they'd have the aluminum color all the way through.
One of the pilots talks about that in an interview and how over the year's the myth that aluminum was mixed in with the rubber somehow got started and has turned into "common knowledge", he even pointed out what I just did about it wearing off on the tread face exposing the black rubber underneath, although they don't show it because it was after the interview in his home he told the guy interviewing him that he had one of the tires out in his garage and he'd take him out to it and show him that it's just a painted on coating and not rubber infused with aluminum.
The interview is with A12 pilot Frank Murray at his home, the thumbnail for it is a picture of him when he was a pilot standing in front of an A12 in uniform, not one of the flight suits but just a regular OD green uniform with the ball cap from back in those days, which I thought was odd because being an A12 pilot he was "sheep dipped" at the time and no longer in the Air Force but technically a civilian employee flying for the CIA, maybe the picture was taken right before resigning his commission while he was being trained or right after he got his commission back and had one last picture taken before he walked away from them.
Cool girl
That is good to know. Steel tires...400 psi wow. They match the plane
Tuskegee airmen captain flies that shit upside coin down ... Rosie go emoh... Over - 0ut.!.
Amazing
Cool
Aluminium!
ALUMINUM
@@John-nc4bl Not in the British Isles
Fastest plane is the X-15.
Fastest jet plane is the A-12, predecessor of the SR-71
Pretty much the same plane
The a-12 and sr-71 to me probably had a true top speed of mack 4+
@@legobut6949 I agree. I believe Mach 5 was even possible. But there was no need for such speeds since it already out ran surface to air missiles. The A-12 was smaller and lighter than the SR-71 but used the same j58 engines. Hard telling what it was truly capable of.
We were making the SR-71's faster up until the day they were retired from active duty.
A-12 were said to be faster, but no official record attempt were made. Same said about the all the flights of the SR-71. Except one official last flight to the Smithsonian museum, breaking 4 more speed records.
NASA was working to install Nitrious Oxide Injection in order to use the SR-71's to launch space satellites.
@@legobut6949 Not a chance. Certain parts of the plane would begin to melt at around Mach 3.8. Ben Rich, the designer of the A-12 propulsion system said so. The ultimate top speed of the plane was limited by the compressor inlet temperature of 427 degrees Centigrade; the local atmospheric conditions allowed some variation as to when this was reached, but I can assure you no one exceeded it. The claimed top speed was Mach 3.5 over Libya in 1986 by pilot Brian Shul (recently deceased) when outrunning a SAM.
Badass
Er Erin you got your facts wrong regarding the Blackbird,s nose wheel tyres, they are no way normal as those on a Pacific Southwest Airlines Boeing 737. On account of its cool shape penned by Clarence 'Kelly' Johnson,s Skunk Works, a Blackbird touches down around 225-230 miles an hour in order to retain directional control , sixty above a Boeing 767 or an Indy racing car. So BF Goodrich had to make them withstand an impact at so high a speed without exploding. In order to keep each main tyre cool as possible engineers at BF Goodrich mixed aluminium powder with the rubber compound, hence the odd silver colour. Their unique profile is derived from John Boyd Dunlop,s 'Compactor' tyre developed in the late 1940,s for use on bomber aircraft before satisfactory bogie undercarriages became available from George Dowty,s and Messier.
$2300 now or in the 60s when it flew? Because back then that was the price of a new car
FWIW the SR-71 is actually the 2nd fastest jet, the A-12 was a little faster and flew a little higher.
$2300, is cheap compared to some good rubber on your off road for what they get out of it .
$2300.00 each...include mount & balance...??...😆
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The tires are tiny.
the person below me is sr71 blackbird who watched this video about a sr71 blackbird
One of those tires cost more than my car. . .
came here for her mistakes
When is the E-version Blackbird coming out?..I'm sure Joe and his pals will be letting you know soon.
Cool story bro
LOL
$2,300.00 usd per tire?
That sounds extremely cheap, for anything government.
Those tires are rough and dry-rotted and need replacing. Too bad ALL the spares were deliberately destroyed.
Insert your cautions and warnings in this box ..! !.. then go build it yourself.
SR-71 is not the fastest or highest flying. That would be the A-12.
The SR - 71 is in the record books , even though they are pretty much the same Plane ...!
how about the A-10?
@@rammbostein The A-10's top speed was 420mph, not even Mach 1, let alone Mach 3+
@@rammbostein heck, I think the P-51 mustang is even faster that that flying tank...
Speed of light wins in all arenas.l..186,000 miles per sec….beat that……..🤣🤣🤣
Stargate SG1, Star Trek, Star Wars, Andromeda, Farscape, Babylon 5, Battlestar Galactica, etc etc etc...would all like to have a chat with you.
It would be fun to see what your jeep looked like after you ... [ step one ] removed the entire aft section of your jeep to somehow fit 6 complete nitrogen filled SR-71 tires complete with struts. Step [two] remove the front tires and replace that section of your jeep with same tires only just two. [step three] fuck it. throw out the jeep then build an SR-71. [step four] figure out how to start it [step five] fly it and live // side grin and hope you win
(This is used to kill humans)
Not so monumental
Not the best impersonation. You mispronounced, "Ewan", first of all, and your accent doesn't sound remotely the same.
maybe you should make the intro music even fkn louder and then mute the voice some more, it will earn you more 👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎
Or maybe they are better historians than video producers and somehow through their ignorance you and i both have seen their informative yet a beginning stage video as they learn to do better.
Be a better person.
oh you left your self wide open for that ,,,, ahem , no those tyres will make your jeep look like a clown car ,,,,,,, with normal tyres !!
you will finally get some decent ground clearance !
yeah never mind about no tread your getting pulled out by a land rover any way !
1:28 Typical Muh'rican that only gets genuinely impressed when they measure things in money.
bro what are you even saying 😂
omg, secret unlocked!