SR 71 info

Ok...... this maybe old info but it's interesting! The Sr 71 flight manuals were declassified............. ((well it is pretty much retired))

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A little interesting tid bit.......

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It appears as though it could exceed mach 3.3?!?!?

originally posted by: UniQue Werkx

Ok...... this maybe old info but it's interesting! The Sr 71 flight manuals were declassified.............

((well it is pretty much retired))

link 1

A little interesting tid bit.......

link 2



It appears as though it could exceed mach 3.3?!?!?

The SR-71 reached Mach 3.4 during flight testing, according to retired SR-71 pilot Richard Graham, and in his 1994 book The Untouchables Brian Shul said that he flew flew at Mach 3.5 in an SR-71 operational sortie while evading a surface-to-air missile over Libya in the midst of Operation El Dorado Canyon.

Links:
www.youtube.com...=3775
en.wikipedia.org...

As an aid to the pilot when refueling, the cockpit was fitted with a peripheral vision horizon display. This unusual instrument projected a barely visible artificial horizon line across the top of the entire instrument panel, which gave the pilot subliminal cues on aircraft attitude.



Tell me that's not the coolest thing You've ever read.