SR-71

Greenlizard0 · 30 Aug 2008 at 12:03

Tefal said:
So instead of just leaving it be, you take up his mantle of acting a tit?

Go you!

So what does that make your post?

Ben M · 30 Aug 2008 at 12:05

Greenlizard0 said:
Holy crap, you ok? Not find this thread overwhelmingly negative?

Interesting topic: check
Basic spelling and grammar correct: check
You are an arse: check

Yep, I'm happy.

Greenlizard0 · 30 Aug 2008 at 12:10

Ben M said:
Interesting topic: check
Basic spelling and grammar correct: check
You are an arse: check

Yep, I'm happy.

Ooh how very witty. I'm afraid you're going to have to explain how being an arse makes you happy? Each to their own I suppose.

pitchfork · 30 Aug 2008 at 12:14

I like the band.
I have no idea what you're talking about though.

I believe benm's 18 today, he wants his first bit of legal arse fun and he's chosen you

FluffySheep · 30 Aug 2008 at 12:17

back on topic -

I think the SR-71 has to be one of the best sircraft ever designed. If I remember correctly, it is twice the size of an f-15 but has half the radar image thanks to it's shape.

For me, the only thing I find close to it in awe factor is the A-10 warthog, but that is a completely different class of plane

Fluffy

Ben M · 30 Aug 2008 at 12:37

Greenlizard0 said:
Ooh how very witty. I'm afraid you're going to have to explain how being an arse makes you happy? Each to their own I suppose.

I wasn't intending to be witty. You being an arse has no relation to me being happy.

You dislike how I come across when I am negative when people do stupid things, whereas you are negative for no reason, which is worse?

Greenlizard0 · 30 Aug 2008 at 13:17

Ben M said:
Interesting topic: check
Basic spelling and grammar correct: check
You are an arse: check

Yep, I'm happy.

Ben M said:
You being an arse has no relation to me being happy.

Ben M said:
You dislike how I come across when I am negative when people do stupid things, whereas you are negative for no reason, which is worse?

No, for what it's worth I dislike unnecessary, negative and unhelpful spam made on a consistant basis by one person.

I was just checking you're ok. For some reason you decided that made me an arse.

Greenlizard0 · 30 Aug 2008 at 13:28

Back on topic - here is a book that my sister's husband in the USA has. It's a good little read for those interested and a cool collection of anecdotes.

AJUK · 30 Aug 2008 at 13:41

This is nice little article I found about the Harrier, it's not all about speed.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,951776,00.html

Curio · 30 Aug 2008 at 15:52

Greenlizard0 said:
Exactly - I mean for a plane to exist in the late sixties. Immense.

Yup. You could take the Blackbird 200 years into the future and I bet it would still look more futuristic and kick-arse than anything around.

Ev0 · 30 Aug 2008 at 16:10

Lovely plane, was chatting to the father in law a while ago and he was saying how he got to have a poke about one when on a work trip to the US in the 90s, can't remember where he was but obviously somewhere they were keeping one at the time.

frosty03 · 30 Aug 2008 at 18:34

It aint a plane, just a cockpit with a camera strapped to 2 large rockets that are called are supposedly engines....

Greenlizard0 · 30 Aug 2008 at 18:37

Curio said:
Yup. You could take the Blackbird 200 years into the future and I bet it would still look more futuristic and kick-arse than anything around.

I was wrong 1962 was when it rolled out and into the air! Bloody eck, that's only 17 years after propellor planes were flying about in WWII!

Glaucus · 30 Aug 2008 at 18:45

Greenlizard0 said:
I was wrong 1962 was when it rolled out and into the air! Bloody eck, that's only 17 years after propellor planes were flying about in WWII!

wasn't the stealth bomber similar age?

We certainly haven't advanced as much as we should have. But I suppose most advancements have been aerodynamic and electrical rather than power.

BoomAM · 31 Aug 2008 at 00:48

Is it just me or is that story a little silly?
Great read, but considering its a stealth plane, its getting spotted a lot?

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Hxc · 31 Aug 2008 at 00:52

BoomAM said:
Is it just me or is that story a little silly?
Great read, but considering its a stealth plane, its getting spotted a lot? .

The heat generated from going Mach 3 showed up on pretty much any radar you wanted, the signature of the actual plane is rather low, however.

VaderDSL · 31 Aug 2008 at 01:03

BoomAM said:
Is it just me or is that story a little silly?
Great read, but considering its a stealth plane, its getting spotted a lot? .

Don't thnk it was ever designed as Stealth

just designed to go as high and as fast so as to make it highly improbable an AA defense could shoot it down.

I imagine that at a certain height and speed a plane can become invulnerable, i.e. the amount of fuel needed to propel a missile to a high enough altitude and speed would probably mean that the misile would therefore be too big and heavy to ever get close. Baring any real leap in rocket propellants.

I guess in the future you could have an unmanned UAV modified in someway to carry some form of AA missile, have it orbiting a territory at a high altitude indefinately and have some form of radar guidance, when it spots the high flying and fast jet, it launches missiles from altitidue giving a better chance for interception.

Inquisitor · 31 Aug 2008 at 01:05

Hxc said:
The heat generated from going Mach 3 showed up on pretty much any radar you wanted, the signature of the actual plane is rather low, however.

Heat doesn't show up on radar; the wavelengths are completely different :confused:

Nick644622 · 31 Aug 2008 at 01:06

No, it was very stealthy, coated in RAM, it was virtually invisible to radar.

ajf · 31 Aug 2008 at 01:43

singist said:
It did use special fuel (JP-7) but the comment about dropping a lit match in it and the match going out is true for any jet fuel (paraffin).

Doh, that was always something I found amazing when I was young. The aura has been spolied now

Didn't know until now it was the same for all jet fuel. I thought paraffin was quite flammable.

Andrew