SR-71 Content additions from Ben Rich's book on the making of the SR-71. Ben Rich succeeded Kelly Johnson at the Skunk Works. 1. Ben Rich designed the variable engine inlet cone's mechanisms for controlling air flow into the engine. 2. The cockpit was subjected to temps of several hundred degrees from friction alone, so they tested the life support system by putting it into a large oven to test the cooling effectiveness. It worked fine. 3. Regarding the he U-2 flown by Gary Powers that was shot down: a) made the mistake of flying a previously used flight plan, so his path could be predicted by the Soviets. b) the anti-aircraft missile radar jammer was used too long at the same frequency. It allowed the the Soviets to tune their ground based anti-aircraft missiles to target that frequency. This issue had been detected on other U-2 missions carried out by ... S Korea? c) the Soviet ground based S-75 anti-aircraft missiles were called 'flying telephone poles' by the Americans. d) In recognition of item 'b', Ben Rich later hired Gary Powers as a test flight pilot of Lockheed. 4. Heat generated the SR-71 in flight (engines, life support cooling, some of the friction heat) was pumped into the fuel in the fuel tank. 5. Both Kelly Johnson and Ben Rich hated working for the US Navy, which were dogmatic, overbearing, control freaks towards their contractors. 6. 2/3 MBS = BS. Disparaging reference to the value of a Management and Business Studies, the standard business degree from colleges which Ben Rich took thinking it would make him a better manager. He rated the class as Bull Sh*t in value.
I know this is mainly an Aviation channel but would you also do more about Submarines? I think your Style is awesome and I love all the crazy Concepts you dig out and present to us!
Would love to see some video on the Mig-105 project! Or maybe some history about the interceptor that had only unguided rockets - The F-89 Scorpion! Could be pretty cool
While I don't doubt that some kind of "Son of Blackbird"/"Darkstar"-type post-SR-71 plane was at least built and flown for a time, I'm really tempted to say that all of the rumors surrounding the Aurora/SR-72/SR-75 was just a big conspiracy to sell more plastic model kits to military aviation lovers and secret project buffs like me. (I say this as someone who had the massive SR-75 and XR-7 Thunder Dart plastic models as a kid.)
I think the reason we dont have one is simple: The X-37B, why go through all the trouble of a scramjet powered craft flying at the edge of space, when you can just boost a spaceplane up a little higher and have it coast on an orbital track for a little bit. Especially in the last decade or so, space flight has become far easier and much more reliable, and as long as you keep the assembly site for the rocket secure, you can tuck it inside a standard rocket and just call it a satellite launch and no one will realize what its actually doing, hell, with larger rockets you can potentially actually launch a satellite and just tuck the X-37 next to it
Kinda sorta? Lockheed published some now archived papers on Hypersonic tech in the early 2000s. There have also been some very frequent sonic boom reports near Lockheed's facilities on the west coast. The representatives there get very cheeky whenever asked about it. There's also the silhouette they teased last year that's in a very familiar shape. These could all be different projects or some combination of the three. They're always working on something, that I do know.
@@battleoid2411 That actually makes a lot of sense. The lack of recent sightings of the "donuts on a rope" contrails and the "black triangle" aircraft suggests to me that the USAF/NRO/CIA shelved any kind of post-SR-71 aircraft in favour of the X-37B. If the cost and logistics issues around the SR-71 were immense, I can only imagine what they would have been for an advanced hypersonic reconaissance plane with a speed and altitude greater than the Blackbird. Compared to that the X-37B (plus the immense cost savings by putting it on a Falcon 9) would be much cheaper and easier to use.
No one ever talks about when Kelly Johnson designed mach 3+ missiles. When you look into Kelly's work history and education. One can see where the idea for the Arch Angle came.
The CL-400-13 is mind blowing. Could you imagine seeing a 300 foot long plane on a runway or in a museum somewhere? Meanwhile a 747-B is only a measly 250 feet long. That would be insane
I've heard a story, don't know if it's true, that Lockheed engineers put the design through CFD sometime in the 90s or early 00s and nothing needed to be changed aerodynamically.
The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird. An advanced, long-range strategic reconnaissance aircraft, capable of Mach 3 and an altitude of eighty-five thousand feet! -Alucard : Hellsing Ultimate Abridged
Interesting, I was aware that the YF-12 existed, but not the SR-71I. Guess I have a new favorite aircraft. Which is just an upgrade over the previous one.
Still love the SR-71! Nice video! When I saw the Lockheed "Peterbilt" (@18:42) I immediately thought is the Myasishchev M-17/ M-55 a copy of this design? (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myasishchev_M-55)
Garrett has made Jet engines and APU’s for many years. They continue but have been bought out by other companies and are now under Honeywell. I’m not sure if the automotive turbos are under another company, my 7.3 has a Garrett under the hood so they were Garretts through 1999.
6:05 What do you mean by "7% of the liquid hydrogen being water"? Liquid hydrogen is simply H2 compressed and chilled... Water is H2O... there is no water in liquid hydrogen 🤷♂
I need to ask, you say in your video, at 6:08, that 7% of liquid hydrogen is actually water. I'd like to understand exactly what that means because I can't find other sources that say the same thing.
@@FoundAndExplained ah shit nvm I saw the image of this concept but it turned out to be a photo shop, sorry I rhought it might have been real because of how well it was made, my bad but would you still liek to see the image?
Originally saw it a few years back the a12r double headed eagle but it just seemed like the wacky stuff the lockheed would have done but it's photo shop sadly
you see the shape of that body crossection? 48:12 doesnt that look like a typical ufo from 1960s? if you make that round that is basically an ufo, now i wonder do they have another type of thrust since the 60's? i wonder if the uaps we see today are actual evolutions of that theoretical design... maybe we already have science fiction engines we just dont know...
The story I heard was someone high up, someone involved in the project was semi retired at 71 years of age. Hence the name SR71. But then again, facts are subject to change when more information becomes available right.
Please do a thorough fact check before mentioning something. The U2 has nothing to do with the F104. The only connection being the person heading the designer team and the manufacturer. Granted the initial concept did share a modified and elongated fuselage but the production one had no correlation. Quoting from Kelly Johnson’s own autobiography: “The only equipment we might retain from the F-104 might be the rudder pedals”. I like your content but try to be more diligent.
At one time I enjoyed this channel but all these "full movies" that are just compilations of previously released videos have me unsubscribing. It was good while it lasted.
This isn't a compliation, its a hour long video that actually is the evolution of the SR-71 from the U2 program haha i'll change the title. We have another 5 original videos coming out this month as well, we just were waiting on approvals :)
🎉"7% liquid hydrogen being water" ?¿😮😂? Nonsense. And the non-existent water ice (-253°C) causes liquid hydrogen to require more space to store?😮😮😅 Liquid hydrogen needs 4x volume compared to jet fuel for the same energy content. Did an AI come up with the ice-in-the-liquid-hydrogen hypothesis or did a writer get hyper creative? How can anybody even come up with such random nonsense. How did it get through the fact checking and editing?
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I will keep my cockpit clock from 1971 thank you.
God that watch looks beautiful, too bad I'm broke and would probably forget it in a random drawer somewhere lol
My favorite part about that titanium isn't that it was used in the SR-71 but how the material was procured in the first place.
The ultimate reason they had to replace the U2 was that they came to the conclusion that it still hadn't found what they looked for.
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I see what you did there!
I love this comment section... but I still haven't found what I'm looking for🤔
@@daftbenceU too? Some day…
It kinda crazy how influential the F-104 was while arguably being a failure itself.
This.
I was thinking that while watching. Like how many ppl got put to "sleep" from the F-104?
Learning from your mistakes is the best way to move forward after all.
hahahahahaahahhaah the old western movie dialogue with "Those Soviets are trying to put rockets in Cuba!" was absolutely epic!
That shit sent me. Professor Umbridge was a nice touch too
SR-71 Content additions from Ben Rich's book on the making of the SR-71. Ben Rich succeeded Kelly Johnson at the Skunk Works.
1. Ben Rich designed the variable engine inlet cone's mechanisms for controlling air flow into the engine.
2. The cockpit was subjected to temps of several hundred degrees from friction alone, so they tested the life support system by putting it into a large oven to test the cooling effectiveness. It worked fine.
3. Regarding the he U-2 flown by Gary Powers that was shot down:
a) made the mistake of flying a previously used flight plan, so his path could be predicted by the Soviets.
b) the anti-aircraft missile radar jammer was used too long at the same frequency. It allowed the the Soviets to tune their ground based anti-aircraft missiles to target that frequency. This issue had been detected on other U-2 missions carried out by ... S Korea?
c) the Soviet ground based S-75 anti-aircraft missiles were called 'flying telephone poles' by the Americans.
d) In recognition of item 'b', Ben Rich later hired Gary Powers as a test flight pilot of Lockheed.
4. Heat generated the SR-71 in flight (engines, life support cooling, some of the friction heat) was pumped into the fuel in the fuel tank.
5. Both Kelly Johnson and Ben Rich hated working for the US Navy, which were dogmatic, overbearing, control freaks towards their contractors.
6. 2/3 MBS = BS. Disparaging reference to the value of a Management and Business Studies, the standard business degree from colleges which Ben Rich took thinking it would make him a better manager. He rated the class as Bull Sh*t in value.
Tictac was his last gift..
I know this is mainly an Aviation channel but would you also do more about Submarines? I think your Style is awesome and I love all the crazy Concepts you dig out and present to us!
He did made a video on a Submarine
Half sub, it flew right? With steam
Fr
Crazy how much detail you put in the video, clearly a lot of work went into it!
Yeah it’s his job
05:55 - For those of you in 'Murrcah, that's -253C, which is -423F.
Would love to see some video on the Mig-105 project! Or maybe some history about the interceptor that had only unguided rockets - The F-89 Scorpion! Could be pretty cool
Only 16 shots of TEB per engine. So after startup there were 15 opportunities to engage the afterburner or to relight the engine on flameout.
Time for project archangel.
High altitude wind testing now that's a flex
Thank you for saying NACA correctly. The NACA *NEVER* referred to themselves as "nacka."
its pretty common to say "Naca Ducts" instead of "NACA Ducts" though, the concept has outlived the origin
@@xymaryai8283 Perhaps, but N-A-C-A is not said the same way as NASA.
Keep up with your great work mate, I hope you will reach 1m subs next year!
Yo, I’m here before the video even got posted, nice
In 1991, an aircraft the crew nicknamed Grease Lightning, not the program name. It was a mach 6+ concept, out of Groom Lake.
While I don't doubt that some kind of "Son of Blackbird"/"Darkstar"-type post-SR-71 plane was at least built and flown for a time, I'm really tempted to say that all of the rumors surrounding the Aurora/SR-72/SR-75 was just a big conspiracy to sell more plastic model kits to military aviation lovers and secret project buffs like me. (I say this as someone who had the massive SR-75 and XR-7 Thunder Dart plastic models as a kid.)
I think the reason we dont have one is simple: The X-37B, why go through all the trouble of a scramjet powered craft flying at the edge of space, when you can just boost a spaceplane up a little higher and have it coast on an orbital track for a little bit. Especially in the last decade or so, space flight has become far easier and much more reliable, and as long as you keep the assembly site for the rocket secure, you can tuck it inside a standard rocket and just call it a satellite launch and no one will realize what its actually doing, hell, with larger rockets you can potentially actually launch a satellite and just tuck the X-37 next to it
Kinda sorta? Lockheed published some now archived papers on Hypersonic tech in the early 2000s. There have also been some very frequent sonic boom reports near Lockheed's facilities on the west coast. The representatives there get very cheeky whenever asked about it. There's also the silhouette they teased last year that's in a very familiar shape. These could all be different projects or some combination of the three. They're always working on something, that I do know.
@@battleoid2411 That actually makes a lot of sense. The lack of recent sightings of the "donuts on a rope" contrails and the "black triangle" aircraft suggests to me that the USAF/NRO/CIA shelved any kind of post-SR-71 aircraft in favour of the X-37B. If the cost and logistics issues around the SR-71 were immense, I can only imagine what they would have been for an advanced hypersonic reconaissance plane with a speed and altitude greater than the Blackbird. Compared to that the X-37B (plus the immense cost savings by putting it on a Falcon 9) would be much cheaper and easier to use.
Incredible machines! The sheer power and precision make these heavy-duty tasks look so easy and efficien
No one ever talks about when Kelly Johnson designed mach 3+ missiles.
When you look into Kelly's work history and education. One can see where the idea for the Arch Angle came.
The CL-400-13 is mind blowing. Could you imagine seeing a 300 foot long plane on a runway or in a museum somewhere? Meanwhile a 747-B is only a measly 250 feet long. That would be insane
I'm hyped. Looking forward to this video.
Still can't believe that its predecessors/precursor is still in service (if you don't know, I talk about the U-2 Dragonlady)
Well… it's just a lot cheaper to op, even if most countries have counters
Imagine the SR-71 but made with computer aided design...
I've heard a story, don't know if it's true, that Lockheed engineers put the design through CFD sometime in the 90s or early 00s and nothing needed to be changed aerodynamically.
@@diltzm the f 117
@@diltzm two things to consider:
1. If it ain't broken, don't fix it
2. Technology has advanced massively since then
11:57 IS THAT SIMPLEPLANES??!!?!?!?!
the convair kingfish looks like the f-117 in early development
The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird. An advanced, long-range strategic reconnaissance aircraft, capable of Mach 3 and an altitude of eighty-five thousand feet! -Alucard : Hellsing Ultimate Abridged
Do you even read my Christmas list?
17:10 "Look at that thing being thrown back"
The B-21 uses the same Astro navigation equipment.
Excellent video with lots of information, great animations
My grandpa would of loved this video thanks nick for making every video better than the last
Thank you very much for this very interesting video 😊
Such impressive machinery! It’s amazing how much weight these machines can lift
I built one of thease in KSP but with R.A.P.I.E.R.S and it is by far the best and coolest SSTO i have ever built
Interesting, I was aware that the YF-12 existed, but not the SR-71I. Guess I have a new favorite aircraft. Which is just an upgrade over the previous one.
Still love the SR-71! Nice video!
When I saw the Lockheed "Peterbilt" (@18:42) I immediately thought is the Myasishchev M-17/ M-55 a copy of this design?
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myasishchev_M-55)
@5:12 That's the clip John B Wells uses in his show intro! 😅
43:51 he didn’t misspeak his stenographer misheard him and wrote RS-71 instead of SR-71 likely because he talked about the RS-70 right before it
This was an amazing video🎉
Great video!
Glad you enjoyed it
Garrett? You mean the car turbo manufacturer?
Garrett has made Jet engines and APU’s for many years. They continue but have been bought out by other companies and are now under Honeywell. I’m not sure if the automotive turbos are under another company, my 7.3 has a Garrett under the hood so they were Garretts through 1999.
The SR-71was the SECOND FASTEST airbreathing aircraft. The A-12 Archangel flew higher and faster than the SR-71 Blackbird.
"Permission to land?"
Air control: "Who said that?
Man I just watched your vid on the F-16XL
46:07 you switched the A and B variants
Yeap...that
Why ai... 10:00
one hour? this guy party!!!
just think that all these designs were done with pen and paper only.... this is CRAZY.
Incredible infrastructure!😯
For those thinking that new is always better, SR-71 seems like the perfect answer.
Love the HP insert. 😂🤣😅
what the...a f18 traveling at mach 3...weird (48:35)
They designed the SR71 in the 60s. Imagine what the folks at the skunk works are developing today
thank you!
40:25 it was M21 and D21 (mother/daughter)
Could you do a video on the Hawker Siddley P1154 please?
11:57 Simpleplanes
cherub 3 actually looks cool
6:05 What do you mean by "7% of the liquid hydrogen being water"? Liquid hydrogen is simply H2 compressed and chilled... Water is H2O... there is no water in liquid hydrogen 🤷♂
A mystically nonsensical claim! I don't know if the writer or the editor or the fact checkers are to blame. 😂😂😂
A-6 is so modern for that era.
Looks like it could be one of those boss aircraft from Ace Combat.
More than one SR-71 replacements was test flown.
I need to ask, you say in your video, at 6:08, that 7% of liquid hydrogen is actually water. I'd like to understand exactly what that means because I can't find other sources that say the same thing.
Bro, I wish I could get the SR 71 watch
Incredible infrastructure
I'm suprised he didnt talk about the twin bird which was 2 sr71's bolted together which had 3 engines instead of 2
I could not find a single source for this, got a link for me?
@@FoundAndExplained ah shit nvm I saw the image of this concept but it turned out to be a photo shop, sorry I rhought it might have been real because of how well it was made, my bad but would you still liek to see the image?
Originally saw it a few years back the a12r double headed eagle but it just seemed like the wacky stuff the lockheed would have done but it's photo shop sadly
you see the shape of that body crossection? 48:12 doesnt that look like a typical ufo from 1960s? if you make that round that is basically an ufo, now i wonder do they have another type of thrust since the 60's? i wonder if the uaps we see today are actual evolutions of that theoretical design... maybe we already have science fiction engines we just dont know...
i almost watched something else the instant you mentioned aliens...lol.
REC watches are great
Cherub-3 is actually just a starwar space fighter lol
Fun fact: one of the SR-71 Blackbird in the world are a "fake" one. Since it's actually a metal alien in disguise :p
Super rocket science
Please dont use ai for your productions cus its ruining the quality of yours videos
Could you tell me where the AI is because i'm struggling to find it, apart from the voice which may be AI
@@MaxMaatta 9:46 but my comment was also about supporting and advertising companies that use ai and j-35 thumbnail
Center of mass/density. Not center of "gravity."
When gripen?
Note how it was always America flying over Russian territory.
NOOOICE!!
Canards...whaaat?
How horrible! Why would you scrap such an incredible machine, just to make a couple of watches?
i was watching the live
I got married in front of SR-71 bkackbird
Sigma
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The story I heard was someone high up, someone involved in the project was semi retired at 71 years of age. Hence the name SR71. But then again, facts are subject to change when more information becomes available right.
TH-cam Dean Odle EU The Mountain Of God In The North, Paradise and Christmas!!! 🎄 (Skip Part 5, The Anti-Exodus 20:11 [KJV] Gap Fiction)
China is watching 😢
the A.I art is terrible
Please do a thorough fact check before mentioning something.
The U2 has nothing to do with the F104. The only connection being the person heading the designer team and the manufacturer.
Granted the initial concept did share a modified and elongated fuselage but the production one had no correlation. Quoting from Kelly Johnson’s own autobiography:
“The only equipment we might retain from the F-104 might be the rudder pedals”.
I like your content but try to be more diligent.
He said the U2 started with the 104, you said the initial concept used the F104. You're saying the same thing.
please include metrics for non american
That watch is hideous, why didn't they make it 60s era esque and classy? Just why???
At one time I enjoyed this channel but all these "full movies" that are just compilations of previously released videos have me unsubscribing. It was good while it lasted.
This isn't a compliation, its a hour long video that actually is the evolution of the SR-71 from the U2 program haha i'll change the title. We have another 5 original videos coming out this month as well, we just were waiting on approvals :)
@@FoundAndExplainedW
@@FoundAndExplainedthis guy is just an abnormality. Youre doing great keep on going the way youre doing it!
Lots of channels repost while working on big projects, when there are reposts I get EXITED
I find them quite good for background noise
🎉"7% liquid hydrogen being water" ?¿😮😂? Nonsense. And the non-existent water ice (-253°C) causes liquid hydrogen to require more space to store?😮😮😅
Liquid hydrogen needs 4x volume compared to jet fuel for the same energy content.
Did an AI come up with the ice-in-the-liquid-hydrogen hypothesis or did a writer get hyper creative? How can anybody even come up with such random nonsense. How did it get through the fact checking and editing?
When you say Area 51 you're not being specific enough. There are more than one Base within Area 51. Groom Lake is only one of those bases.
Garbage, especially the multiple errors in b-roll.
can't wait to watch the hour long doco on the subject on your channel mate!
DAMN!!!!
Gay plane
Totally homosexual plane.
😂
Says the gay man.
For context, only straight, married men were allowed to fly the SR-71.
i guess you know a lot about that huh?
Why are you gai !?