Sr71 Blackbird facts
While investigating facts about Sr71 Blackbird, I found out little known, but curios details like:
An sr71 Blackbird once flew from LA to Washington DC in 64 minutes. Average speed of the flight: 2145mph.
Soviets were so helpless against the SR71-"Blackbird" that Reagan sent some to secret Soviet meetings, creating sonic booms and drawing figure eights over, letting them know they were being watched and can't do a thing about it.
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An sr71 Blackbird once flew from LA to Washington DC in 64 minutes. Average speed of the flight: 2145mph.
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To build the SR71 Blackbird’s titanium skin the CIA used a phantom company to buy it from the Soviet Union
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Once the SR71 Blackbird accelerated to mach 3, it only required about 30% throttle to maintain that speed. (ctrl F "mach")
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The Russians built an jet to intercept the SR71 Blackbird, only problem was that if it exceeded M2,8 the engines were reduced to scrap!
