"More Details Emerge On Boeing's SR-71 Replacement" Topic
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Tango01  | 03 Feb 2018 8:59 p.m. PST |
…Concept. "At the beginning of the year, Boeing revealed a concept design at an aerospace forum for a strike and reconaissance aircraft that could fly five times the speed of sound—a spiritual successor to the famed Mach 3 SR-71 Blackbird reconaissance plane. A model and artist's rendering show a twin-tail, highly swept delta-wing jet in a so-called "waverider" configuration, meaning the hypersonic aircraft would use the shock waves it produces during flight to increase lift and reduce drag. The Boeing concept is thought to be internally called "Valkyrie II," according to Guy Norris at Aviation Week, though Boeing has not yet green-lighted development of the aircraft. If the aerospace company does move forward with a hypersonic strike and reconaissance plane, it would likely build a scaled, single-engine, proof-of-concept demonstrator aircraft about the size of an F-16 before moving on to a full-scale, twin-engine aircraft the size of the 107-foot-long SR-71…"
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| General Kirchner | 05 Feb 2018 3:01 p.m. PST |
why? we have these amazing things called satellites. |
| Tango01 | 06 Feb 2018 10:06 a.m. PST |
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| Lion in the Stars | 11 Feb 2018 4:24 a.m. PST |
Satellites are predictable. An SR71 could be anywhere (ideally, flying overhead as the satellite drops below the horizon) |
| Tango01 | 11 Feb 2018 7:59 p.m. PST |
Good point!. Amicalement
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