The SR71 Blackbird currently holds the record for the fastest trip from New York to London at just under 2 hours and that's a plane designed and built in the 50s and 60s and retired more than 20 years ago.
I worked in a defense plant in Van Nuys CA in the 80's and 90's. At the time the Van Nuys airport was for government projects. When the SR71 would come in for a landing, we all knew it by the incredible noise and vibrations. It was kind of unsettling but thrilling at the same time. great video guys!
Being as I was Air Force 1984-1988 {my uncle was Chief Master Sargent USAF 47 yrs service Korean & Vietnam vet} the SR-71 Blackbird was my favorite plane & glad I now live right near Robins AFB in Georgia {not far from Macon, the birthplace of rock, southern rock & soul} & get to see a SR-71 anytime at the Aviation Museum & get to see many types of planes, jets & choppers flying around! Those sonic booms are house rattling! Lately there have been tons of C-117s taking off loaded with supplies for Israel & those MFers are extremely loud, slow to take off & they go one after the other for a couple of hours ✌💖☮
The funny thing is that the US did something sneaky and bought the Titanium, used in the SR-71's from USSR. They have been mounting Lasers on Navy ships along with Railguns. Another thing you can watch is about the Navy's Railguns. Drones are remotely flown planes. The Navy has a stealth Drone which can be used as a refueling plane. They are working on drones which can be controlled by a pilot in another plane. The pictures of the SR-72 are other people's rendition of what they think it will look like. The shape is still top secret.
The SR-71 was reportedly capable of flying faster than mach 3.2 but was limited to that speed to prevent engine damage. Some components would begin to melt at higher speeds. Unofficially one pilot was reported to have reached mach 3.5 for a brief period while evading a missile.
A retired USAF friend told me an interesting story. He doesn't know everything, so he just mentioned his thoughts. Dark projects like at "Skunk Works" or DARPA are 50 years ahead of what you see or hear about.
You wish. All of the supposed secret project are already known and there's nothing really secret about them. Refining the technology and actually making it useable takes times. And it's not 50 or whatever years ahead. It is modern day. It just takes time to refine it and make it actually work. Every technology and modern fighter plane took like 30 years to actually develop and be built.
Good afternoon y'all. I hope you're well. I grew up in the glide path of the runway for the Little Rock Air Force Base my entire life and I'm now 50 years old. There's literally no telling what's out there on the darkest of nights that have zero Moon we would often hear aircraft engines that were completely unfamiliar to anything we had ever heard before. Little Rock Air Force Base is a C-130 base. The engines we often hear are not associated with C-130 😮😁😀🤘
The X-15 reached a speed of 4,520 mph (Mach 6.7) in 1967. It also holds the record for the highest altitude, 67.1 miles. Several X-15 pilots flew high enough to receive astronaut wings.
If the Dark Star is real, at Mach 6, it cruises at 1.3 miles per second. The SR 71 first flew in 1964 and was extra cool because we bought the titanium from the Soviet Union through a dummy company.
Love the channel for the reaction videos. Think about the fact that the SR-71 was from the 60's and 70's and they engineered the bajeebus out of it, so imagine what they "really" have today..
The SR-71 was so fast that on some long missions the pilots would see multiple sunsets and sunrises. When travelling in a westerly direction at subsonic speeds they would see the sun set. Increasing to high altitude and speed they’d be travelling fast enough to catch up to the sun and see it rise in the west. When they came back down to lower altitude and subsonic speed for aerial refuelling the sun would set again, then when getting back to high speed and altitude they would see it rise because they were travelling faster than the Earth’s rotational speed.
i served 7 and a half years in the Air Force! we kicked ass! i was offered and Internship in NASA but i was scared because i was so young! i was not comfortable moving to Florida!
The "dark stuff" high tech, of the US is usually announced at about one decade after operational deployment. We heard of the F-117 stealth fighter in '91 during the Gulf War, but it was flying in '84.
I heard rumors of something like it in the late 83 flying off the coast of Siberia around the time that Soviet fighter shot down that South Korean airliner. Flight 007. The Soviet Air Forces mistook the plane for a U.S. spy plane and shot it down with air-to-air missiles. My cousin who was Navy Special forces in the late 60's early 70's still knew people with security clearance just like he had when he was in service. 'Rumor' was we had a super secret aircraft poking around the area and when the interceptors were sent up after weeks of being teased they shot down the first thing they came upon.
You might be interested in the X-15 program. A rocket powered Mach 6 "aircraft" from the 1960s that reached Mach 6.7 or 4520 mph at an altitude of 102, 100 ft (over 19 miles high). (SR-22 is a jet powered aircraft that reached Mach 3.2). I guess having rocket engines doesn't qualify the X-15 as an "aircraft for the record books."
The AI aspect is not far off but the remote controlled hypersonic is already here. Think about the SR-72 able to control its own air fleet whether drones or a mix of human/drones, for target purposes.
If the USAF is confirming it's existence, then its pretty much safe to say they are already working on something newer, I bet the SR-72 has been flying for years, they are just saying its new. The SR-71 flew for almost a decade before the public was told of it's existence..
It travels above Mach 12 and has been under improvement since the early 2000s. Come on guys this old tech now. We only see tech twenty to thirty years after it's been available.
I get what u r saying but obsolete is not the right word. That would suggest that everything it does we can do better at this moment in time which is an almost impossible expectation. We likely can do some things better, and a lot of things we are still trying to improve upon. A better statement would be we have prototypes that could and will be better when it is perfected.
As an Air Force Sergeant we we taught that Top Secret classification lasted for 20 years by default. Anything they talk about now is at least that old.
First off that thing won't be released. Second of all, it's not obsolete. And trying to say that they have something better doesn't mean much. Because we already know what they have, and it's not really that that much better. Slightly better efficiency slightly better speed. That's about it.
Thank you for flying Hypersonic Airways where we fly so fast you will a smile on your face from take of to landing. Not just because of how fun it is but because of the G forces on your body. Thinking of a face lift? Take a picture during flight to show the doctor what you expect.
The U S. Navy has had L.A.W.S. laser weapon systems on various ships for years now. The U.S.Air Force has had several aircraft with lazer systems since the 80s for testing in and out of battle theaters.
I think the 👉Sr 91 Aurora, with the Pulse Wave Detonation Engine is the best craft ever created. It can go mock six and faster. It can also fly over a hundred thousand feet above sea level and is able to outrun missiles fired at it. The government says it doesn't exist, but there are photos of it in air refueling. It's smoke plme is very interesting, It's a long trail with donut shape smoke daisy chined together.
Yeah the SR71 Blackbird that hasn't been matched for speed and altitude was retired more than 20 years ago and was designed and built in the late 1950s to early 1960s.
The SR-71 was originally supposed to be called the RS-71(reconnaissance, stealth), but President Johnson mistakenly called it the SR-71 and who's going to correct the president?
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The X-15 experimental rocker planes, of which 3 were built, set records in the 1960s that are still unmatched for manned aircraft. I say aircraft as these precede the space shuttle that require a large external fuel tank with auxiliary solid fuel rockets to boost them into orbit, by about 2 decades. The X-15s were pure rocket engine powered using liquid anhydrous ammonia fuel and liquid oxygen. The rebuilt, following a crash landing, X-15A-2 used liquid hydrogen fuel. They were not air breathing jets. Due to rhe limitations of fhe onboard fuel supply, the X-15s were carried aloft under the wing by a modified, subsonic B-52 Stratofortress 8 engined jet bomber, the X-15 was dropped before firing up its rocket motor. The aircraft would burn through its entire fuel supply during the mission and then glide back to a landing. During Flight 91, X-15-3 reached a maximum altitude of 67.1 miles/108 km with a top speed of 3794 mph/6106 kph/Mach 5.58 on 08/22/1963. The pilot/astronaugt was Joseph A. Walker. This flight exceeded the 100 km Karman Line which is considered thr threshold of 100 km. During Flight 188, X-15A-2 reached a maximum speed of 4520 mph/7274 kph/Mach 6.70 at an altiude of 19.3 miles/31.1 km. on 10/03/1967. The pilot was William J. Knight.
p.s. With these extreme speeds comes extreme fuel consumption. Ditto for high powered lasers that require enormous power supplies. it's all about the energy, baby. There ain't no free lunch. Clever engineering can take you a long way, but ultimately physics still rules.
Just thinking out loud - If supersonic travel is commercialized, wouldn’t passengers have to wear special pressurization suits similar to high speed fighter pilots and astronauts, in order to withstand and/or compensate for the impact of the G-forces on the human body for the duration of the flight (e.g., the 1-1/2 hours between NY and London the narrator mentioned)?
If they have admitted it then they have its replacement nearly or already in service. For example, the F-117 was in service for around a decade before it was confirmed, and even that was only because one crashed near Fresno, Ca. And there's a fun story about the titanium to build the SR-71. At the time most of the world's known titanium deposits were controlled by the USSR. So the US had to go through third and fourth parties to covertly buy it. This was at least 60 years ago. It retired 20 years ago.
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Well since we're talking about speed,A mach is 767 mph & you times that at 6 comes out to be a top speed at 4,600 mph & the little ship in 2011 that went Mach 20 is a top speed of 15,300 mph.. That's f***in Bonkers!!
This info you just seen is already outdated. Like any other tech such as cell phones, TV's. As soon as something comes out it's already outdated.😱😱✌️❤️
Talking about the comparisons of Nato troops and russian troops as you guys did previously...when we talk about numbers,that America often lead too,one cant overstate how far USA is above russia and china in aerplane technology..its not even a beginning of a match here...America has the air..its just as simple as that..
You better hope our own Creations AI like us or doesn't decide it doesn't need us and dislikes us and that we are no more than a nuisance in the past now you'll know what to fly when you spray it with the bug spray feels like
SR-71 is my favourite aircraft of all time
This is so interesting,my father was a fighter pilot in the U.S.A.F during the mid 60's till the mid 70's....Aim High Air Force 🇺🇲
Thank you for your father service 🇺🇸
And yes! AIM HIGH!
The SR71 Blackbird currently holds the record for the fastest trip from New York to London at just under 2 hours and that's a plane designed and built in the 50s and 60s and retired more than 20 years ago.
I worked in a defense plant in Van Nuys CA in the 80's and 90's. At the time the Van Nuys airport was for government projects. When the SR71 would come in for a landing, we all knew it by the incredible noise and vibrations. It was kind of unsettling but thrilling at the same time. great video guys!
Being as I was Air Force 1984-1988 {my uncle was Chief Master Sargent USAF 47 yrs service Korean & Vietnam vet} the SR-71 Blackbird was my favorite plane & glad I now live right near Robins AFB in Georgia {not far from Macon, the birthplace of rock, southern rock & soul} & get to see a SR-71 anytime at the Aviation Museum & get to see many types of planes, jets & choppers flying around! Those sonic booms are house rattling! Lately there have been tons of C-117s taking off loaded with supplies for Israel & those MFers are extremely loud, slow to take off & they go one after the other for a couple of hours ✌💖☮
The funny thing is that the US did something sneaky and bought the Titanium, used in the SR-71's from USSR. They have been mounting Lasers on Navy ships along with Railguns. Another thing you can watch is about the Navy's Railguns. Drones are remotely flown planes. The Navy has a stealth Drone which can be used as a refueling plane. They are working on drones which can be controlled by a pilot in another plane. The pictures of the SR-72 are other people's rendition of what they think it will look like. The shape is still top secret.
The SR-71 was reportedly capable of flying faster than mach 3.2 but was limited to that speed to prevent engine damage. Some components would begin to melt at higher speeds. Unofficially one pilot was reported to have reached mach 3.5 for a brief period while evading a missile.
A retired USAF friend told me an interesting story. He doesn't know everything, so he just mentioned his thoughts. Dark projects like at "Skunk Works" or DARPA are 50 years ahead of what you see or hear about.
Not 50 years, but they try.
You wish. All of the supposed secret project are already known and there's nothing really secret about them. Refining the technology and actually making it useable takes times. And it's not 50 or whatever years ahead. It is modern day. It just takes time to refine it and make it actually work. Every technology and modern fighter plane took like 30 years to actually develop and be built.
Wait, does that mean Tom Cruise is real too?
I think Tom is still waiting for his spaceship from heaven.
He is definitely CGI
The SR71 was being developed in the late 50s and early 60s and flying in the 60s i believe. They were so far ahead of their time .
Good afternoon y'all. I hope you're well. I grew up in the glide path of the runway for the Little Rock Air Force Base my entire life and I'm now 50 years old. There's literally no telling what's out there on the darkest of nights that have zero Moon we would often hear aircraft engines that were completely unfamiliar to anything we had ever heard before. Little Rock Air Force Base is a C-130 base. The engines we often hear are not associated with C-130 😮😁😀🤘
that is one very fast aircraft good thing its ours
The X-15 reached a speed of 4,520 mph (Mach 6.7) in 1967. It also holds the record for the highest altitude, 67.1 miles. Several X-15 pilots flew high enough to receive astronaut wings.
Interesting guys, thank you.
If the Dark Star is real, at Mach 6, it cruises at 1.3 miles per second.
The SR 71 first flew in 1964 and was extra cool because we bought the titanium from the Soviet Union through a dummy company.
Love the channel for the reaction videos. Think about the fact that the SR-71 was from the 60's and 70's and they engineered the bajeebus out of it, so imagine what they "really" have today..
The SR-71 was so fast that on some long missions the pilots would see multiple sunsets and sunrises. When travelling in a westerly direction at subsonic speeds they would see the sun set. Increasing to high altitude and speed they’d be travelling fast enough to catch up to the sun and see it rise in the west. When they came back down to lower altitude and subsonic speed for aerial refuelling the sun would set again, then when getting back to high speed and altitude they would see it rise because they were travelling faster than the Earth’s rotational speed.
i served 7 and a half years in the Air Force! we kicked ass! i was offered and Internship in NASA but i was scared because i was so young! i was not comfortable moving to Florida!
The "dark stuff" high tech, of the US is usually announced at about one decade after operational deployment. We heard of the F-117 stealth fighter in '91 during the Gulf War, but it was flying in '84.
We .. my unit .. saw one at night in Saudi Arabia. The next morning we were gathered and informed that we did not see it. I swear.
I heard rumors of something like it in the late 83 flying off the coast of Siberia around the time that Soviet fighter shot down that South Korean airliner. Flight 007.
The Soviet Air Forces mistook the plane for a U.S. spy plane and shot it down with air-to-air missiles.
My cousin who was Navy Special forces in the late 60's early 70's still knew people with security clearance just like he had when he was in service.
'Rumor' was we had a super secret aircraft poking around the area and when the interceptors were sent up after weeks of being teased they shot down the first thing they came upon.
Hey guys coming late to the video. Sorry I wasn't getting notified
Great reaction and Peace out ☮️ ✌️
I live in a wide open, rural area in Ohio and have seen many “ufos”. That said, we are not far from Wright-Patterson AFB so … 😏
76 miles in a minute is moving right along. 😳
You might be interested in the X-15 program. A rocket powered Mach 6 "aircraft" from the 1960s that reached Mach 6.7 or 4520 mph at an altitude of 102, 100 ft (over 19 miles high). (SR-22 is a jet powered aircraft that reached Mach 3.2). I guess having rocket engines doesn't qualify the X-15 as an "aircraft for the record books."
The AI aspect is not far off but the remote controlled hypersonic is already here.
Think about the SR-72 able to control its own air fleet whether drones or a mix of human/drones, for target purposes.
If I'm not mistaken the SR-71 flew from Los Angeles to Washington D.C in 1 hour and 4 minutes.
Check out the LA speed story by SR-71 pilot Brian Shul.
If the USAF is confirming it's existence, then its pretty much safe to say they are already working on something newer, I bet the SR-72 has been flying for years, they are just saying its new. The SR-71 flew for almost a decade before the public was told of it's existence..
It travels above Mach 12 and has been under improvement since the early 2000s. Come on guys this old tech now. We only see tech twenty to thirty years after it's been available.
Hey guys, this is my first time commenting but I just wanna let you know that if we are watching about this technology now it’s already obsolete
I've watched videos about many things that are still successful in their usage.
Why do you think obsolete?
I won't say "obsolete", but I will go with operational.
I get what u r saying but obsolete is not the right word. That would suggest that everything it does we can do better at this moment in time which is an almost impossible expectation. We likely can do some things better, and a lot of things we are still trying to improve upon. A better statement would be we have prototypes that could and will be better when it is perfected.
As an Air Force Sergeant we we taught that Top Secret classification lasted for 20 years by default. Anything they talk about now is at least that old.
First off that thing won't be released. Second of all, it's not obsolete. And trying to say that they have something better doesn't mean much. Because we already know what they have, and it's not really that that much better. Slightly better efficiency slightly better speed. That's about it.
What kind of mind can come up with something like this 🤔
Thank you for flying Hypersonic Airways where we fly so fast you will a smile on your face from take of to landing. Not just because of how fun it is but because of the G forces on your body. Thinking of a face lift? Take a picture during flight to show the doctor what you expect.
The U S. Navy has had L.A.W.S. laser weapon systems on various ships for years now. The U.S.Air Force has had several aircraft with lazer systems since the 80s for testing in and out of battle theaters.
I think the 👉Sr 91 Aurora, with the Pulse Wave Detonation Engine is the best craft ever created. It can go mock six and faster. It can also fly over a hundred thousand feet above sea level and is able to outrun missiles fired at it. The government says it doesn't exist, but there are photos of it in air refueling. It's smoke plme is very interesting, It's a long trail with donut shape smoke daisy chined
together.
The doughnuts on a rope exhaust have been spotted over Amarillo TX on several occasions.
Yeah the SR71 Blackbird that hasn't been matched for speed and altitude was retired more than 20 years ago and was designed and built in the late 1950s to early 1960s.
If the Air Force admits a new advanced aircraft exists, it is usually 10-20 years old. Check out DARPA.
The SR-71 was originally supposed to be called the RS-71(reconnaissance, stealth), but President Johnson mistakenly called it the SR-71 and who's going to correct the president?
“But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.” (Daniel 12:4)
The Titanium was needed because a steel or aluminium aircraft would have melted or been ripped apart by the air at the speeds the SR71 could fly.
The X-15 experimental rocker planes, of which 3 were built, set records in the 1960s that are still unmatched for manned aircraft. I say aircraft as these precede the space shuttle that require a large external fuel tank with auxiliary solid fuel rockets to boost them into orbit, by about 2 decades. The X-15s were pure rocket engine powered using liquid anhydrous ammonia fuel and liquid oxygen. The rebuilt, following a crash landing, X-15A-2 used liquid hydrogen fuel. They were not air breathing jets. Due to rhe limitations of fhe onboard fuel supply, the X-15s were carried aloft under the wing by a modified, subsonic B-52 Stratofortress 8 engined jet bomber, the X-15 was dropped before firing up its rocket motor. The aircraft would burn through its entire fuel supply during the mission and then glide back to a landing.
During Flight 91, X-15-3 reached a maximum altitude of 67.1 miles/108 km with a top speed of 3794 mph/6106 kph/Mach 5.58 on 08/22/1963. The pilot/astronaugt was Joseph A. Walker. This flight exceeded the 100 km Karman Line which is considered thr threshold of 100 km.
During Flight 188, X-15A-2 reached a maximum speed of 4520 mph/7274 kph/Mach 6.70 at an altiude of 19.3 miles/31.1 km. on 10/03/1967. The pilot was William J. Knight.
p.s. With these extreme speeds comes extreme fuel consumption. Ditto for high powered lasers that require enormous power supplies. it's all about the energy, baby. There ain't no free lunch. Clever engineering can take you a long way, but ultimately physics still rules.
The SR 71 is about six decades old
Just thinking out loud - If supersonic travel is commercialized, wouldn’t passengers have to wear special pressurization suits similar to high speed fighter pilots and astronauts, in order to withstand and/or compensate for the impact of the G-forces on the human body for the duration of the flight (e.g., the 1-1/2 hours between NY and London the narrator mentioned)?
You need to watch "LA SPEED STORY - SR-71 Pilot Brian Shul USAF (Ret.)"!
If they have admitted it then they have its replacement nearly or already in service. For example, the F-117 was in service for around a decade before it was confirmed, and even that was only because one crashed near Fresno, Ca. And there's a fun story about the titanium to build the SR-71. At the time most of the world's known titanium deposits were controlled by the USSR. So the US had to go through third and fourth parties to covertly buy it. This was at least 60 years ago. It retired 20 years ago.
Already 30 years old.
Mach 1 is just over 767 mph.
The laser is mostly for satellites, etc. because shooting down into the atmosphere would cause atmospheric bloom which disrupts the bearm
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They already have those lasers on some ships. Isreal has some too.
I deal with seizures, so my case for my phone is Titanium lol
the lasers are already on the air craft carriers
Yea lasers are being equipped and are equipped on many US navy vessels
How long will it take to get a pilot who will be capable of flying it an all of its weapons?
These are some pretty fringe websites claiming this thing is in production... Take it with a grain of salt.
As a person in the US I didn't even know this thing existed.
Not sure it does
The AI narration on the video was tripping me out. "The two-ninety-two million dollars jet".
Well since we're talking about speed,A mach is 767 mph & you times that at 6 comes out to be a top speed at 4,600 mph & the little ship in 2011 that went Mach 20 is a top speed of 15,300 mph.. That's f***in Bonkers!!
UK warships also shoot lazers scary stuff 😮
They already have the self flying planes Drones are like flying a R/C controlled aircraft
I flew self flying planes in the 60's. Folded a piece of paper and launched it.
The new one has been out for since 2000 31 update system
This is how UFO sightings come to be.
After seeing todays UFO hearing, we're gonna need all the help we can get
The US government has came out and confirmed UFO sightings since like a year or two ago
I thought anything that Flys above Mack 5 is Hypersonic.
I just wish we could keep our intellectual property and plans for all this secret from China etc.
That's the reason pres.Trump started a new branch of service, space force👍
we now know where our high taxes go into.If they keep us in the USA safe it will be worth it.
This info you just seen is already outdated. Like any other tech such as cell phones, TV's. As soon as something comes out it's already outdated.😱😱✌️❤️
YOU GUYS REALLY NEED TO WATCH OUR SHIP CALLED "BLACK MANTA TR3B" THAT IS TOTALLY ALIEN LOOKING.
Talking about the comparisons of Nato troops and russian troops as you guys did previously...when we talk about numbers,that America often lead too,one cant overstate how far USA is above russia and china in aerplane technology..its not even a beginning of a match here...America has the air..its just as simple as that..
Nope the milittary does not test around aircraft carriers.
False....Top Speed is Mach 10 .....and will cruse at Mach 6.3 all day long.....
watch the movie sealth this jet looks just like the unman jet in the movie
You better hope our own Creations AI like us or doesn't decide it doesn't need us and dislikes us and that we are no more than a nuisance in the past now you'll know what to fly when you spray it with the bug spray feels like
You kids have not seen anything yet.....Hahaha ....shit we have crafts that would make you faint !! The world is in the fog when it comes to this !!!
Wow you are reacting to an AI generated article and voice... and not realizing it... wow.
THIS / DARKSTAR is FAKE, was made up for TOP GUN MAVERICK
The Darkstar in the movie was obviously fake. However the SR-72 is real. Watch this --- ruclips.net/video/QlMX6TYdU7I/видео.html