Waaaay OT but this vid is cool

Hell, that's what I WAS thinking when I took my first drive!

 

VERY COOL. Are those pants part of the pilots uniform?

 

He's been standing behind the jetwash too long.

 

Way kool Benno. The pants need to go though.
B.B.

 

Hmm, had to go back and watch it a second time for the pants, I was too enthralled with the SR-71! All he needs now is an XB-70 to park next to it..............and hope like hell no one has a F-104 that will be flying at the same time.
PS, Kelly Johnson is one of my all time heroes!!

Doc.

 

When my jets are on it, yeah! Nothing to scale it to in this pic but they are big. 6.5 wingspan, 30 lbs. thrust, easy 200 plus MPH. Thats my Viper, before lettering and stuff. That SR 71 is pretty slow, but awesome looking.

 

Any links to video of your jets? Please (Recently learned what that word was and how to use it!!)

Doc.

 

Pretty slick. I just wasn't aware that folks were doing jet propelled R/C planes. I am still pretty much in the dark ages when gas planes ran on nitro and were controlled by strings. I do remember the R/C crowd when they were first getting popular though.

Anyway pretty slick. I am down for videos as well.

 

Just wondering if.....

 

Man if you ejected from up at the edge of outer space you would have to hold your breath a long time.

 

Leave it to the freaking German's to figure out how to build that RC, it even has retractible landing gears. Amazing!

 

I saw a black bird land at Beal in '68... or did I????

 

Waaaay too Coool. Hot rod? Hell, yes!!

 

wowww

 

Damn thats badass!!!

 

The Blackbird could supposedly fly at over 2000 MPH at the edge of the earths atmoshpere. It would leak fuel like a sieve on the ground, once it got up to altitude & speed thermal expansion sealed it up tight.

 

It was actually 64 minutes between LA and DC. That was the aircraft accepted into the Smithsonian. Also holds record between NY and London...1 hour, 54+ minutes in 1972. First OPERATIONAL flights-1968. DD

 

Such an amazing plane, perhaps Uncle Sam should put some scale versions like this to use as spy UAVs.

 

Got to see one do a low level fly-by at Pt. Mugu airbase when I was a kid. That was a long time ago.

 

Did y'all notice, at the very end of the video, there were a couple of guys standing around waiting to fly their prop plane? LOL, after seeing that thing (SR-71) take off and land, if I were one of those guys I would just pack it up and go home. That's like showing up to the quarter mile track all proud of your new turbocharged Mustang and an XJ220 pulls in behind you. Talk about stealing your thunder, huh?

Thanks for the video beaner! I wish I had talent like that. Or... ANY talent... come to think of it.

Oh, wait! I make a mean three alarm chili. I fold.

 

Cool. Imagine the work that goes into a turbine that tiny.....

 

that is just pure bitchin cool

 

German ingenuity!

 

Wow! Very impressive! So....the status of security leaks on our most top secret technology has sunk to the point that folks in foreign countries make working scale models of it for shits and grins, huh? Not real comforting.....

 

Uh... the SR-71 has been largely declassified for a decade or more.

 

i got to see the cockpit of one when i was 13.

they are the ultimate hotrod of the air.

 

No you didn't you just imagined it.

When they had them in mothballs you could actually go see them from what I recall. I am sure that the specialized photo equipment was not there.

MarkL,
I have read that they were just one big fuel cell and that the leaked like a sieve as well. They only had enough fuel in them to take off then fueled in the air. Once they got up to speed the skin heated up and sealed itself up by expansion. My understanding is that they had to be engineered loose so that they would still function after thermal expansion set in.

The one that I didn't see at the air show was just sitting there drooling as I don't remember it.

Here is something that I don't understand. The Govt denied that it existed way up 'til the time they went into mothballs. How do you hold a record with something that you claim doesn't exist.

 

There is one on display at the Air Zoo in Kalamzoo, Mi. They also have on display one of the SR-71 engines. Nice museum with plenty to look at. Be sure to try out their flight simulators, room for two, a pilot and a gunner, fun stuff.

 

That is too cool. How do you get a jet engine for an r/c? How much does something like that cost?

 

Neat video, but this is more my speed. I priced one and it was in the $10K range.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbrzU-JdldE&feature=related