When I was a little kid I wrote aletter to Lockheed asking for pictures of the SR-71. They sent me a lot of pictures and even a huge poster in a cardboard tube. It really meant alot to a poor kid in Tennessee
This isn't just a plane. This is a kind of artwork, seeing the blackbird in the air gives you emotions, it shows power and perfection. Plus the shape and the afterburner let you put your own feelings on the jet. Majestic bird
My grandpa worked on this from early on till he retired in 1981. It’s nice to be able to learn about what he did at Lockheed that he couldn’t talk about back then. Every guy that worked on these planes was a master machinist and craftsman. The few things I have in my collectibles from these men done during their downtime periods is just insane. I have one belt buckle that is so Nice. I keep it wrapped in toilet paper so it won’t get scratches
One of the best looking aircraft ever made. Even more impressive you have a chance to get up close to one of them. Something I was able to do on 2 separate occasions.
It's a magical thing. I was blessed to touch one, put my hands on, stand in amazement. Girlfriend at the time had no idea how monumental this was. Her brain and mouth said why are we in Bellevue, Ne at the end of this runway? My response was shhh. I waited a few days to see it fly over and now. Finally. Its here after years of waiting. It is amazing to touch one
I need to see one up close! My father used to weld these beautiful jets together in the early 1960's while working at Lockheed in Los Angeles. We lived in Burbank at the time. He's gone and I'm now 65 years old. 😇
I think that there was one in New York. My dad and sister had planned the trip. First we collided with the marathon and then there was no time for the blackbird. At least I saw the F1 engine in FL .
It's a magical thing. I was blessed to touch one, put my hands on, stand in amazement. Girlfriend at the time had no idea how monumental this was. Her brain and mouth said why are we in Bellevue, Ne at the end of this runway? My response was shhh. I waited a few days to see it fly over and now. Finally. Its here after years of waiting. It is amazing to touch one.
At the third known place on earth is/was the first and last place you wanted to be. SR-71 comes in, you know about it being a 16 or 17 year old kid. It was simply amazing to get to touch the surface. I was blessed in my life to also hold a shuttle tile with a torch on other side. Nothing, nothing amazed me more than the SR(RS).
My father Lucio Blanco welded the SR71's and its predecessor when we lived in Manhattan Beach, California. I was born in Torrance in 1958. We later moved to San Diego but he continued to work for Lockheed in Burbank until 1966 😇 RIP Dad
Fantastic bird, only saw one personally at an air show in 1980's at Andrews AFB while stationed there. Nice. The most impressive plane at that air show. The JP8 leaking on the flightline was a curious thing and the crew educated us on the whole story about it. All that stuff is declassified now but wasn't then though all of us in my unit (possibly the whole base) had TS clearances, so all was good, and we were all like kids and soaked that stuff up.
I'm only a minute into the video, but anytime I hear someone talking about the noise something makes, my mind goes the same place. Not sure why the engines hitting 117 decibels is a big deal. Arrowhead stadium hit 142.2, and since an increase of 20 decibels results in about 4 times the perceived volume, the Blackbird is actually relatively quiet. Heck, it's even quiet compared to that little field up in Seattle that briefly held the record at just 136.6 db.
Not to knock you down a peg, my friend, but you're using the word "penultimate" incorrectly and seem to misunderstand its definition. "Penultimate" does not mean "great," "extreme," "of an unmatched quality," "extraordinary," or "more than ultimate." "Penultimate" simply means "second to last." For example, if an author wrote 10 books during the course of his career, then his 9th book would be his penultimate book. Etymologically speaking, and in this instance, the root word "ultimate" is more synonymous with "final" than it is with "greatest" or "best." "Ultimate" is combined with the prefix "pene-," taken from the Latin word "paene," meaning "almost." So, put together, "penultimate" literally means "almost final" which gives us the workable definition of "second to last." Anyways, I just figured I'd let you know. Cheers!
fun fact: the US used umbrella companies to source and purchase titanium for the sr-71 from the ussr, which at the time was the biggest producer of the metal. the ussr inadvertently helped build the worlds best and fastest reconnaissance plane of all time without their knowing
He was a clown. He forced his staff to talk to him while he took a dump, constantly referred to his penis as “jumbo”, and was just an all around piece of trash.
There was one on display at the Minnesota msp airport by the airforce entrance way by the airforce hangers and couple C-130 but the SR-71 is no longer there for obvious reasons.
Ok, the programme was acceptable, but get the name of a legend right: It´s KELLY not Telly! That man, was a legend, " accused to seeing the air"! Name someone other, reciving the Collier Price, more times? So was Ben Rich.
You just know there's gonna be the corny cringe freeDUMB or DUMBocracy soundbite in there often with a few crocodile tears thrown in for the true PATRIOTS to bite down hard on. The world is so sick and tired of this corny 1950s hollywood social engineering.. Damn nice piece engineering excellence btw..
Being honest, ol' Buzz here sounds like he heard stories, but didn't actually fly the thing. He doesn't have the, what's the word... Authenticity? He doesn't sound like he's telling first hand accounts. One man's opinion...
@@Dronescapes they where variants from from archangel called gusto and oxcart. A-12 became the variant YF-12 then became the SR-71. Something like that anyway. The initial program was called Archangel
Multi Billion dollar project, totally redundant if there's cloud cover. The Russians were completely safe from this white elephant or rather black elephant. Good technical exercise though
Besides being fast enough to out run enemy rockets, The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird, or "Blackbird", had many important missions, including: Libya In April 1986, the SR-71 flew over Libya to photograph the damage caused by the bombing of Muammar Qaddafi's terrorist camps. Middle East In 1979, the SR-71 flew from California to the UK for the first time, on a mission approved by the UK government. The SR-71 also flew in the Middle East during the 1973 Yom Kippur War. East Germany, Poland, and the Soviet Union The SR-71 flew off the borders of these countries. Radar images of Soviet submarine ports The SR-71 flew missions that yielded radar images of Soviet submarine ports. Synoptic coverage The SR-71's synoptic coverage provided better intelligence than satellite reconnaissance. Penetrating hostile territory The SR-71 was the only airborne reconnaissance platform that could penetrate hostile territory and still survive. The SR-71 also holds world records for highest sustained flight and fastest flight time between London and New York.
So the optimism is based on the fact that we can reindustrialise and repeat the same fuck ups as we are doing today? That's heartwarming. It just makes me think we are like cockroaches almost impossible to kill and never good news. Why does the most destructive species to have ever existed think it's got a right to survive
When I was a little kid I wrote aletter to Lockheed asking for pictures of the SR-71. They sent me a lot of pictures and even a huge poster in a cardboard tube. It really meant alot to a poor kid in Tennessee
That's Awesome!!! How old are you now?
Dou still have it?
This isn't just a plane. This is a kind of artwork, seeing the blackbird in the air gives you emotions, it shows power and perfection. Plus the shape and the afterburner let you put your own feelings on the jet. Majestic bird
Go
My grandpa worked on this from early on till he retired in 1981. It’s nice to be able to learn about what he did at Lockheed that he couldn’t talk about back then. Every guy that worked on these planes was a master machinist and craftsman. The few things I have in my collectibles from these men done during their downtime periods is just insane. I have one belt buckle that is so Nice. I keep it wrapped in toilet paper so it won’t get scratches
Bless him, and thanks for sharing
Of course I love the SR71. The Brits and French just did Concorde.... years later.
Impressive
Very nice!
The sound of those 401 wildcat v8 engines in the start carts is crazy!
One of the best looking aircraft ever made. Even more impressive you have a chance to get up close to one of them. Something I was able to do on 2 separate occasions.
Got too see it in Seattle coolest shi humans made straight spaceship
I’ve had the craziest experience never seeing it in real life lol ! :((
It's a magical thing. I was blessed to touch one, put my hands on, stand in amazement. Girlfriend at the time had no idea how monumental this was. Her brain and mouth said why are we in Bellevue, Ne at the end of this runway? My response was shhh. I waited a few days to see it fly over and now. Finally. Its here after years of waiting. It is amazing to touch one
I need to see one up close!
My father used to weld these beautiful jets together in the early 1960's while working at Lockheed in Los Angeles. We lived in Burbank at the time. He's gone and I'm now 65 years old. 😇
I think that there was one in New York. My dad and sister had planned the trip. First we collided with the marathon and then there was no time for the blackbird. At least I saw the F1 engine in FL .
This is by far the most thorough film on the 12 & 71 I've ever viewed.
In terms of looks and performance, still way ahead of it's time in 2024... what a machine!
I used to see it flying all the time in the Antelope Valley when I was a kid in the 70's and 80's. Pretty cool to see.....👍
Saw this at an air-show when I was a kid. The pilot took is near vertical and laying on the grass on a hill I could feel the sound in my chest,
This plane my father took me to see! And it's stunning!
It's a magical thing. I was blessed to touch one, put my hands on, stand in amazement. Girlfriend at the time had no idea how monumental this was. Her brain and mouth said why are we in Bellevue, Ne at the end of this runway? My response was shhh. I waited a few days to see it fly over and now. Finally. Its here after years of waiting. It is amazing to touch one.
At the third known place on earth is/was the first and last place you wanted to be. SR-71 comes in, you know about it being a 16 or 17 year old kid. It was simply amazing to get to touch the surface. I was blessed in my life to also hold a shuttle tile with a torch on other side. Nothing, nothing amazed me more than the SR(RS).
Fantastic footage.. one of the best Blackbird films
Many thanks!
Thanks for this excellent video. I could never get " too " much BlackBird. It's design is so inspiring and breathtakingly timeless and undurring.
Thank you for sharing, I use to watch her in Okinawa, back in 87-88
My father Lucio Blanco welded the SR71's and its predecessor when we lived in Manhattan Beach, California.
I was born in Torrance in 1958.
We later moved to San Diego but he continued to work for Lockheed in Burbank until 1966
😇
RIP Dad
Bless him
REALLY good video! Thank you for putting this together for us-
Un-touchable. Unique. A matchless "union" of American genius and Soviet titanium; and a slide-rule. Thank you Clarence😊✊. Thank you Leonid😉👍.
Coolest best looking aircraft ever!
Fantastic bird, only saw one personally at an air show in 1980's at Andrews AFB while stationed there. Nice. The most impressive plane at that air show. The JP8 leaking on the flightline was a curious thing and the crew educated us on the whole story about it. All that stuff is declassified now but wasn't then though all of us in my unit (possibly the whole base) had TS clearances, so all was good, and we were all like kids and soaked that stuff up.
LOVE SR 71
The coolest aircraft of all time.
Close tie with the A10.
Beautiful plane. Oxcart was a funny codename for it.
DINESH as a commentator!!!!
I LOVE IT!!!!
A airplane well before its time even more amazing it was designed without computer technology
I'm only a minute into the video, but anytime I hear someone talking about the noise something makes, my mind goes the same place. Not sure why the engines hitting 117 decibels is a big deal. Arrowhead stadium hit 142.2, and since an increase of 20 decibels results in about 4 times the perceived volume, the Blackbird is actually relatively quiet. Heck, it's even quiet compared to that little field up in Seattle that briefly held the record at just 136.6 db.
It still today represents the penultimate of the aircraft designers art. Jeez...
Not to knock you down a peg, my friend, but you're using the word "penultimate" incorrectly and seem to misunderstand its definition.
"Penultimate" does not mean "great," "extreme," "of an unmatched quality," "extraordinary," or "more than ultimate."
"Penultimate" simply means "second to last." For example, if an author wrote 10 books during the course of his career, then his 9th book would be his penultimate book.
Etymologically speaking, and in this instance, the root word "ultimate" is more synonymous with "final" than it is with "greatest" or "best." "Ultimate" is combined with the prefix "pene-," taken from the Latin word "paene," meaning "almost." So, put together, "penultimate" literally means "almost final" which gives us the workable definition of "second to last."
Anyways, I just figured I'd let you know. Cheers!
incredible video man.. never seen such a complete film. keep up the amazing work brother, God bless truly.
Eine der besten jemals gebauten Maschine🇺🇲❤🇺🇲❤🇺🇲❤
fun fact: the US used umbrella companies to source and purchase titanium for the sr-71 from the ussr, which at the time was the biggest producer of the metal. the ussr inadvertently helped build the worlds best and fastest reconnaissance plane of all time without their knowing
Transformers revenge of the fallen (2009) introduced me to this legendary aircraft. Autobot JETFIRE transformed into the blackbird RIP
ITS BEAUTIFUL
You can literally touch the sr71 in Mobile, Alabama.... awesome!!!
Even better because that's an A12
good machine for SR71 !!
Do that thing was flying in the 60's and we only know of the B-21 and F-35 in the 2020's?
El mejor de los mejores de todos los tiempos the Black bird..💯👌
Was that Telly Savalas, a.k.a. Kojak narrating The Blackbird Story?
We were shocked when Johnson disclosed it's existence
it seems that at 13:35 the audio is gone for a few minutes.
My Favourite STEALTH PLANE 😍😃. SR-71 BLACKBIRD 😍😃
Not a stealth plane.
A nice Beemer or Cadillac. That is a rough example. Those are two totally different cars
The blackbird is so powerful you need 4 V8s to start it’s engines
Wyt people accomplishments.
On a footnote, Johnson didn't mistakenly call it the A-11, that was the airframe's original designation if I remember correctly.
He was a clown. He forced his staff to talk to him while he took a dump, constantly referred to his penis as “jumbo”, and was just an all around piece of trash.
That is balls! The USA needs to start showing its big ass sac again!
😂 Yes
Wish more attention had been devoted to the YF-12A Interceptor version.
Cool flim though.
Genial
There was one on display at the Minnesota msp airport by the airforce entrance way by the airforce hangers and couple C-130 but the SR-71 is no longer there for obvious reasons.
Cool
I like this powerful fastest planes
3:45
.. Tuff💪🏼😎
Leonardo Javier Chile Curicó ❤❤❤❤
Liked other videos more than this one.somthing missing here
Not enough numbers and specs.
@@deborahchesser7375 What other specs and numbers do you need?
Never been shot down by sams Or aircraft,despite being fired on hundreds of times
Ok, the programme was acceptable, but get the name of a legend right: It´s KELLY not Telly!
That man, was a legend, " accused to seeing the air"! Name someone other, reciving the Collier Price, more times?
So was Ben Rich.
The guy at 53:38 is not human.
The Black Bird is God of all spy planes
Out flew a missle
Ha!!!
"The sound of freedom over Hanoi" - thats so sick, i think he needs help
I agree with you! It sounded the same way for me..!
You just know there's gonna be the corny cringe freeDUMB or DUMBocracy soundbite in there often with a few crocodile tears thrown in for the true PATRIOTS to bite down hard on.
The world is so sick and tired of this corny 1950s hollywood social engineering..
Damn nice piece engineering excellence btw..
😍 SR-71 makes me hot 🔥
Does your father know?
@@SonoftheWars my father was the one that told me about the sr 71 when I was young
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This bird is the closest I’ll ever have to a wife.
(chuckle) It went a LOT higher than 85,000 feet !
Lol no it didn't
(sigh) Can't tell people what they don't want to believe - LOL.
@@mikeymouse4629agreed. Have no idea who believes what you said about altitudes.
And where did we get the titanium LOL😅
@@Stone46988 Hmmm
Being honest, ol' Buzz here sounds like he heard stories, but didn't actually fly the thing. He doesn't have the, what's the word... Authenticity? He doesn't sound like he's telling first hand accounts. One man's opinion...
The A-12 was faster and had a greater ceiling.
It was called archangel
The Archangel was the U-2, I think.
@@Dronescapes they where variants from from archangel called gusto and oxcart. A-12 became the variant YF-12 then became the SR-71. Something like that anyway. The initial program was called Archangel
@@Dronescapes I meant the A-12 was the precursor to the YF-12 and then the longer variety of the SR-71. They came from the same project effectively
@@Dronescapes aquatone was the U-2 project name I believe palz
@@Dronescapes the document are in the CIA page as no longer redacted as far as I remember
Loving the corny music!
This was before SoundCloud rappers. Ya know, when people still had respect for themselves.
*PromoSM* 😇
Multi Billion dollar project, totally redundant if there's cloud cover. The Russians were completely safe from this white elephant or rather black elephant. Good technical exercise though
Lol, it also carried radar and electronic intelligence gear, didn't always have cameras. Carried multiple sensors where cloud cover didn't matter.
Besides being fast enough to out run enemy rockets, The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird, or "Blackbird", had many important missions, including:
Libya
In April 1986, the SR-71 flew over Libya to photograph the damage caused by the bombing of Muammar Qaddafi's terrorist camps.
Middle East
In 1979, the SR-71 flew from California to the UK for the first time, on a mission approved by the UK government. The SR-71 also flew in the Middle East during the 1973 Yom Kippur War.
East Germany, Poland, and the Soviet Union
The SR-71 flew off the borders of these countries.
Radar images of Soviet submarine ports
The SR-71 flew missions that yielded radar images of Soviet submarine ports.
Synoptic coverage
The SR-71's synoptic coverage provided better intelligence than satellite reconnaissance.
Penetrating hostile territory
The SR-71 was the only airborne reconnaissance platform that could penetrate hostile territory and still survive.
The SR-71 also holds world records for highest sustained flight and fastest flight time between London and New York.
So the optimism is based on the fact that we can reindustrialise and repeat the same fuck ups as we are doing today? That's heartwarming. It just makes me think we are like cockroaches almost impossible to kill and never good news. Why does the most destructive species to have ever existed think it's got a right to survive
it's ok i guess
okhi
Ever notice that Russian fighter jets have the same look as the Valkrie?. Damn thing worked. Too bad it was destroyed
Is it the SR or is it still a prototype off a Sr en is it a u.s design 🗽🌐📽️👽🪃(parker)Spilsbury
"The sound of freedom over Hanoi" - thats so sick, i think he needs help