Re:Mach 3.5 Over Libya in an SR-71 Blackbird
by vr46 on Thursday March 30, 2023 @07:54PM
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Amazing aircraft. Never had the pleasure of seeing it in motion but I paid a special visit to see the one at the Imperial War Museum in Duxford outside London. Bloody brilliant, and I even broke the rules to touch it briefly with my hand to feel what it was like.
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Re:Mach 3.5 Over Libya in an SR-71 Blackbird
by mattygee on Thursday March 30, 2023 @10:12PM
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You gotta tell me, what did it feel like? :)
It kinda looks, to my eyes at least, like it has a matte finish in photos, so my thinking would be that it would have perhaps an almost shark skin roughness or something? Though you'd imagine surely not given the bit of extra drag when factored over the whole airframe...maybe?
But then again, at those speeds I wonder if there would be a difference or if boundary layer effects take over or something of that nature.
Disclaimer: am obviously not an aerospace engineer :)