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That's the SR-71. It's capable of reaching Mach 3 (3x speed of sound).the titanium plane with the 2 big afterburners on the sidesComment
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Too bad the SR-71 has been decommissioned. I still remember drawing one from a spy photo when I was in grade school.
Want to get from New York to California in 54 minutes? Take a Blackbird!
Due to the heat during flight, the skin of the SR-71 expanded quite a bit. As it sat on the tarmack waiting to take off, fuel would leak from the plane thru the gaps.
Also, I read that they never knew the actual top speed of those engines as they could not develop a skin strong enough to withstand the friction at top thrust.
Isn't the F-117A the Stealth Fighter?PIII 550@605
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F117A - Current triangular stealth figher, using 1st generation stealth tech.
B2 - Current Flying Wing stealth bomber, using 2nd generation stealth tech.
F22 - Next generation stealth fighter, using 3rd generation stealth technology, intended as a replacement for the US F-15 Eagle (all weather air superiority fighter in the F-15A & F-15C, all weather fighter-bomber in the F-15D and F-15E variants). The F22 was one of two proposals for the replacement submitted to the USAF (at the time it was known as the YF-22, the other proposal was known as the YF-23), and can 'supercruise'- achieving supersonic cruising speeds without the use of afterburners (a first!), among other things (no, I don't know anything classified- this is all on the public record, hehe).
SR-71 Blackbird: Mach 3 is the officially acknowledged top speed it has reached. Rumor has it that this sleek plane has seen much greater in its day (oh, and some have been recommissioned, supposedly for NASA's use, primarily). I once met a maintainer for one of these birds, and it's true that the skins over the fuel cells leaked like sieves after a flight. They had to use special fuel-recovery basins (think large bathtubs, hehe) to recycle the fuel that it drained off.
Later all!
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