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re: The CIA A12 (SR71 Blackbird eats its dust)
Posted on 6/14/16 at 1:38 pm to UAinSOUTHAL
Posted on 6/14/16 at 1:38 pm to UAinSOUTHAL
Another fun fact, you can google street view all over the battleship park in Mobile.
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Posted on 6/14/16 at 1:50 pm to meauxjeaux2
Those planes were designed with a bunch of guys using slide rulers in the 50s and even today they are a technological wonder.
Posted on 6/14/16 at 2:13 pm to elprez00
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It wasn't designed to sit on the ground, chief.
You won the internet today.
Posted on 6/14/16 at 2:15 pm to meauxjeaux2
With no weapons, what exactly does either jet do?
Posted on 6/14/16 at 2:16 pm to J Murdah
Recon. And weapons aren't needed when you can literally fly faster than anything on the planet.
Posted on 6/14/16 at 2:19 pm to CaptainsWafer
i wonder, if they were equipped with guns, how long it would take them to catch up with their own fired bullets?
Probably look like an ACME Roadrunner vs. Coyote cartoon
Probably look like an ACME Roadrunner vs. Coyote cartoon
Posted on 6/14/16 at 2:20 pm to Tigeralum2008
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If these are the specs of a 30 year old airframe just think about what is up there flying today for CIA/AF
Its actually over 50 years old which makes it even more nuts
Posted on 6/14/16 at 2:21 pm to lsu480
they were using protractors and shite to build that bitch 
Posted on 6/14/16 at 3:03 pm to Tigeralum2008
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If these are the specs of a 30 year old airframe
Try 50 :-)
Posted on 6/14/16 at 5:04 pm to griswold
Had to do a special inspection on one in 1988. Met one of the original design engineers.
Little known fact. When they designed the plane they theorized it would need replacement structures every 25 flights or so. Real world they found out the airframe actually got stronger with each high-speed flight,
Learn something new every day. ;)
Little known fact. When they designed the plane they theorized it would need replacement structures every 25 flights or so. Real world they found out the airframe actually got stronger with each high-speed flight,
Learn something new every day. ;)
Posted on 6/14/16 at 5:15 pm to AUTimbo
Good thing Roswell happened, or we wouldn't have the A12.
Posted on 6/14/16 at 6:23 pm to Sparkplug#1
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Good thing Roswell happened, or we wouldn't have the A12.
A plane built from a element discovered on earth in 1791 powered by engines burning high grade kerosene, that is some high end alien tech right there.
Posted on 6/14/16 at 6:24 pm to meauxjeaux2
No Aurora, no care.
Posted on 6/14/16 at 7:31 pm to bamarep
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All that tech and they can't figure out how to make the bastard no leak fuel while it's sitting on the ground.
Here is the reason it leaks on the ground...
The plane generates a great deal of friction in flight due to the speed. The friction translates into heat which makes the air frame expand. I think I read somewhere the Plane is 2 feet longer in flight than on the ground. (really don't remember and I am too lazy to look it up...) Due to that amount of expansion, they had to design the seams and tolerances with that factored in. Hence, the plane leaks fuel sitting on the ground.
Ya cannot ignore Physics...
Posted on 6/14/16 at 7:44 pm to meauxjeaux2
I bet you look similar to your avatar.
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