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Cadmium-plated steel tools embrittled titanium on contact, so Lockheed had to build new tools out of titanium for the SR-71 Blackbird. Parts washed in...
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Cadmium-plated steel tools embrittled titanium on contact, so Lockheed had to build new tools out of titanium for the SR-71 Blackbird. Parts washed in...
The J58 burned JP-7, a blend so hard to ignite that a lit match dropped into it goes out. Starting the engines required a...
Across its whole service life the SR-71 Blackbird accumulated 53,490 flight hours, 11,675 of them above Mach 3, over 17,300 sorties. By the late...
Tail number 61-7974 was tracking Soviet naval activity off the Kola Peninsula at Mach 3 and 83,000 feet when the right engine unstarted. The...
It took two or three seconds. Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird test pilot Bill Weaver was at Mach 3.18 and 79,000 feet, in a 35-degree bank,...
David Peters was stationed at Kadena in Okinawa and took off at 1000 on a Saturday morning in an SR-71 Blackbird. The route ran...
The Air Force did not retire the SR-71 because something better came along. Nothing better exists. On March 6, 1990, Lieutenant Colonel Ed Yielding...
SR-71 Blackbird engineers found that spot-welded titanium parts made in summer were failing early in service, while parts welded in winter held up. Nothing...
The SR-71 aircraft designed to outrun and out-photograph the Soviet Union had a problem: it had to be made of titanium, and the Soviets...
The SR-71's propulsion was far more than two engines. At speeds above Mach 3, the movable inlet spike, bypass system and exhaust worked together,...