Saturday 2 November 2013

SR-71 Blackbird :

The SR-71 Blackbird was developed by Lockheed Martin.It was an advanced, long-ranged strategic aircraft which flies at speeds higher than Mach 3.
It was developed in the 1960's from the Lockheed A-12 reconnaissance aircraft project.
Out of the 32 SR-71's built, 12 were lost in accidents but none in battles.
The SR-71 Blackbird was designed to dodge the enemy missiles. How exactly would it do that?
Simply. When it detects a missile heading towards it, it would simply accelerate to higher speeds and boom! Missiles out flied! The SR-71 holds the record for the fastest air-breathing manned aircraft.

The Blackbird family consists of the YF-12, A-12 and SR-71.
The blackbird family flew for 3,551 mission sorties and 17,300 total sorties.The mission flight hours of the blackbird family are 11,008 hours and total flight hours are 53,490. They flew over Mach-3 for about 2,752 hours in missions and totally over 11,675 hours.

Jim Zwayer, a Lockheed flight-test reconnaissance and navigation systems specialist was killed in a flight accident. Rest of crew members ejected safely or evacuated their aircraft on ground.

The Blackbird has a crew of 2.
The max. take off weight of Blackbird is about 78,000 kgs.
Maximum Speed is 3.3 Mach at 24,000 meters.
Range : 2,900 nmi.
Service Ceiling : 25,900 m.
Rate of Climb : 60 m/sec.







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