topic derail!!!!
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Originally Posted by Iroczlover
No I was joking Scott lol Heck weather back there has to be better than the weather here. Heck it was SNOWING in the passes last night & sticking. SNOW in JUNE.
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so much for global warming eh...
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Originally Posted by DGthe3
For the longest time, top speed was mach 3.0+ for the Black Bird, altitude of 80 000 feet +. Then I was hearing 3.5+ and 100 000+. And yeah, there were Soviet planes that could almost reach its speed, but only for a very short burst. They would have to have a perfect intercept course, wait till the SR71 is right behind them, punch it, and hope that it hasn't gone too far ahead of them.
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Nifty useless piece of random information.. The sr71 has a fuel line that runs under the wings that actually leaks aviation gas when its not moving mach 1+, this was done becuase an actual solid fuel line would burst from the air pressure generated by the high speed. SO any sr71 that is fueled and on the ground leaks gas.