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Daws
28-10-2007, 10:20 AM
I'm currently working at Lackland AFB in Texas and they have a pretty good static display of aircraft.

Here's some pics...

http://picasaweb.google.com/pjdaws/Aircraft


My Favourite...
http://lh4.google.com/pjdaws/RyNfJFLwECI/AAAAAAAAAVs/LUtZXDc8P1E/s400/PA250037.JPG
Wobbly
28-10-2007, 10:50 AM
Texas eh? My, you've got a purdy mouth bouy... :lol2:

At least you're not in houston, worlds most boringest city :)
SM93
28-10-2007, 10:53 AM
nice!
SMC690
28-10-2007, 11:13 AM
Mmmmm, I like that Blackbird and the whole cold war spyplane era. :)

Some lite reading on it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SR71
elle
28-10-2007, 11:48 AM
This is my favourite one by far... I think he was working out how to steal it...
http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p19/elle_taco/plane097.jpg

oh and this one. Paul was praying to his gods.
http://picasaweb.google.com/elle.auer/LacklandAirfield/photo#5126183901561258578
SMC690
28-10-2007, 12:16 PM
Here's my old one, I traded it on the KTM, 3,529.56 km/h wasn't quite fast enough.

http://www.habu.org/lockheed/pi-4046-11.jpg

From www.habu.org
SMC690
28-10-2007, 03:42 PM
How coincidence.
There is a doco on the SR71 on Discovery channel right now. :)
Wobbly
28-10-2007, 08:04 PM
Could have told us earlier. Bastard.
Flash
28-10-2007, 08:27 PM
ALways loved the SR71!!
broke
28-10-2007, 08:32 PM
I too am a fan of the SR-71, at uni they just had us prepare a "journal article" on ramjets and the SR-71 is basically the only manned operational aircraft that was powered by ramjets and operated at supersonic speeds, but the engines operated as turbo jets at takeoff and landing, very tricky indeed for an engine that has next to no moving parts. Lots of missiles are powered by ramjets and you all probably saw the test flights recently in Queensland of a scramjet capable of reaching Mach 10. Makes my drz look slow at Mach 0.1 (123 km/hr) :)
BEDO
29-10-2007, 08:20 AM
Here's my old one, I traded it on the KTM, 3,529.56 km/h wasn't quite fast enough.

http://www.habu.org/lockheed/pi-4046-11.jpg

From www.habu.org

AaarrrgggggHHH Thats before the Crutches were added to the Standard of your code there matie!!!!!! ;)
SMC690
29-10-2007, 05:56 PM
Yeah Bedo, it's before I busted my leg when I fell out of the cockpit after a 12 stubbie reconnaissance
mission looking for single Mum's over Moe. :)
Flash
29-10-2007, 07:58 PM
Wasn't it Brunswick?
SMC690
29-10-2007, 08:01 PM
Wrong mission dude.
That was punch, not beer. :P
SMC690
11-03-2008, 07:07 PM
Looks like the SR72, the Blackbirds replacement is becoming a concept.

Hypersonic, Mach 5 or higher, unmanned with no strike capability is a possibility.

http://www.janes.com/news/defence/air/jdw/jdw080310_1_n.shtml

And from Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the people you can thank for the internet. They started it.
Twatty
12-03-2008, 09:50 PM
Pahh, they're no AP-3C...
Oh and broke, you would be surprised how many moving parts are in the gas turbine section of those engines.
SMC690
12-03-2008, 10:07 PM
Orion, lol. Nice try. ;)

I could imagine there would be one or two moving parts, three at a push... :)

http://www.sr-71.org/photogallery/blackbird/j-58/index.php?file=j-58-2005-03.jpg
Twatty
12-03-2008, 11:24 PM
well, OK maybe the SR71 is a little bit more awesome.
I'm not feeling the jet love at the moment though coz im typing this on my phone sitting in a shitty block at amberly getting PISSED OFF with the damn pigs and C17s doing circuits. Noisy carns...
Greeny
13-03-2008, 05:51 PM
well, OK maybe the SR71 is a little bit more awesome.
I'm not feeling the jet love at the moment though coz im typing this on my phone sitting in a shitty block at amberly getting PISSED OFF with the damn pigs and C17s doing circuits. Noisy carns...


HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Sucks being You!
BEDO
14-03-2008, 08:28 AM
well, OK maybe the SR71 is a little bit more awesome.
I'm not feeling the jet love at the moment though coz im typing this on my phone sitting in a shitty block at amberly getting PISSED OFF with the damn pigs and C17s doing circuits. Noisy carns...

Well get on down to the WTSS and do some marksmanship training dude they got one there at Amberly.....I think they even got pistols there....
SMC690
14-03-2008, 09:09 AM
SIR, YES, SIR! ;)
broke
14-03-2008, 12:26 PM
I was more referring to when they are operating as a ramjet, I was under the assumption that the gas turbine engine was only used to reach Mach 1? After looking at the those photos I'm more confused then before.
Twatty
14-03-2008, 10:38 PM
haha, im a blackhander, if i ever need to pick up a weapon, its to late!

Dont worry broke, i was only taking the piss. They really are amazing machines. Id love to pull one apart.