HEAD OF PUDD even uploads on Boxing day ....Bless him

😁the problem if it is fuel consuming ICBM >> how it will it return back from enemy territory ..& the capiltalistim ignorant propaganda narcists want to add a pilot to this equation ... yeah to ease its capture of course 😂 tell the US propaganda to think about drones in deceiving taxpaying population .. rather than the "stealth myths" 👻

It was a great looking plane... before some moron crashed it ;)

I rather enjoy the Military-sized holes in Windows since windows 98. The Heavy duty ones are the best, followed by the Tactical ones.

10:50 ish,... that's a really messy sentence, "Twice the thrust of the Boeing 737 Max, one of the largest engines commercially available,..." As it's not the Boeing 737 Max producing the thrust, but it's LEAP-1B engines, perhaps there's meant to be an 'equipped with' in the middle there. Kinda stands out as it's not up to the usual standard on this channel ;)

That would be right in Kelly Johnson’s wheelhouse, actually. Hide in plain sight.

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@@mikeharvey9184 they shot scenes at China lake for maverick; this is where some less secret and known test aircraft are flown out of. China actually retasked spy satellites (using up precious fuel) to take pictures of darkstar because their intelligence hadn’t caught any details about it and it was within a military facility

They couldn't even write a script for it and you think they got ultra classified access? Yeah, no.

@@Laminar-Flow when you see that the movie is nothing more than a flashy recruitment tool/patriotism generator, you'll begin to understand.

Yup, white sands too. Seen them myself, on missiles, unbelievably fast, makes all other missiles look slow.

Those good old doughnuts on a stick contrails were always something special.

the us has operated a whole host of hypersonic aircraft and missiles, the idea that we haven’t is a strange myth. not sure how the myth started since many of them are public, except maybe whatever the hell you are describing.

Well you can ask questions just don't expect answers

Don’t talk about **********

Mr Durden won't be happy.

His name is Robert Paulson

Speed is stealth given the altitude that speed allows it to reach

Is it even possible for a pilot to survive the Gs from a plane that can outrun a hypersonic missle?

@@badluck5647 we’ve sent people to space and those have some pretty crazy speeds and G forces on them I don’t see why the same couldn’t be done here

@@badluck5647 - As long as you accelerate within the human body's limits - then you can go as fast as you like - just try not to stop or start suddenly.

😁the problem if it is fuel consuming ICBM >> how it will it return back from enemy territory ..& the capiltalistim ignorant propaganda narcists want to add a pilot to this equation ... yeah to ease its capture of course 😂 tell the US propaganda to think about drones in deceiving taxpaying population .. rather than the "stealth myths" 👻

How unusual is this actually, for the development of new technology designed in part to attack news China?

The engines were so optimized for high speed flight they needed to be started with triethylborane

@@Laminar-Flow yep that fuel had such a high flashpoint

@@tlxatom7004Flashpoint doesn’t really have anything to do with the use of triethylborane, it had to do with the main fuel. Triethylborane has a very low flashpoint (-20 C roughly), however it ignites upon contact with oxygen. It was used to START the engines… The acronym for it was TEB and there was a switch + counter in the cockpit telling the pilot how many TEB shots or starts were left before they ran out. SR-71’s actual fuel had a high flashpoint because it had a dual use (to cool the skin of the aircraft) and it could not be risked that fuel in tank would ignite. The main fuel could have a match dropped into it and the flame would be extinguished. More commonly known as low volatility fuel than low flashpoint fuel.

@@Laminar-Flow a close friend of mine used to buy the fuel for the SR71

@@Laminar-Flow If I remembered correctly they often would leak fuel on the runway due to the necessity to design for thermal expansion in the shell. I think this also played into the use of that particular fuel chemistry.

Grow up

@@danceyrselfkleen grow a sense of humor.

His name is Robert Paulson. His name is Robert Paulson.

He's always got a handful of complete gibberish non-facts in his videos. Cool beard, though.

I am almost positive it was yet another misunderstanding regarding the D-21, which wasn't towed, but used a ramjet.

These videos have been rampant with false information lately

@@cruisinguy6024 The research staff may be getting stretched a bit thin perhaps.

@@RCAvhstape wouldn’t surprise me, seems like they have at least 50 different channels at this point each of which puts out 5 videos a week lol

well it wouldn't surprise me if this was the basis for strange contrail formations reminiscent of a scramjet engine sometimes seen in satellite photos in the 1980s and 90s. Project Aroura was probably a test bed for these (something the airforce kept saying didn't exist.

@@Jadefox32 It does not exist until it does, when they can't hide it anymore, and you find there are already six in use.

Why would you lie about talking to engineers?

@@danceyrselfkleen You can say I'm lying all you want, doesn't change the facts lmfao

@@Jadefox32 This is what I was told, was never told what aircrafts were tested with them, but they did confirm there were multiple prototypes being tested with these engines. I'm guessing it was around the time they were talking about a Blackbird replacement. Also to add some validity, all the contrails in the 80s and 90s were in the direct flight paths from the Skunkworks Palmdale facility, out to Edwards, and over to Nellis/Groom.

Project Aurora was the designation for the hypersonic aircraft program,so you nailed it.There are many who thought it was the name for a singular jet.✌️

They wear space suits because at the altitude they flew at if they lost pressurization they would die from their blood boiling. Same reason an astronaut wears a suit not just because of the lack of oxygen. Boiling points of fluid change with pressure.

If this is actually true then I see why we’re getting a space force. We have fighters in earth orbit/beyond?!

​@@zachtroxclair5653exactly.....

Actually I think Mach 3.3-3.7 is a reasonable limit for the A-12/SR-71. The airframe was basically heat-treated on each supersonic flight, so reputedly got stronger over the years. I would suggest that the limiting factor might be the Mach cone (shock wave) coming off the nose, past Mach 3.7 the nose shock will start to intersect the engine inlets, an engine unstart at that sort of speed would probably exceed structural strength of the airframe.

they got the altitude maybe we have to see the wing desigin the orginal b2 was supposed to fly high then the airforce wanted a lower flying bomber

Shhhh

Unfortunately, what makes planes fast and maneuverable also makes it more easily spotted by radar.

@@creepycraiyons3519 Lmao

The thermal emissions of this craft will make it real easy to locate without radar. Airplanes have always been a balancing act. If you ever see something that can do everything and has no disadvantages, it probably isn't totally real.

Yes. Just yes.

@@Laminar-Flow you've got boot polish on your lip

@@aluisious🤡

I recall a model maker came out with what they thought was the missing F17. It had ultra smooth curves everywhere. And then the F117 came out with flat panels everywhere. Whoops.

@@kennethng8346 That's the "smooth quiver of an arrow" I meant. The opposite direction but still cool.

The story of this model is a bit more complicated, but really wild. In 1982 USAF decided, that the new plane made by Northrop would be called F-20. The last one was the F-18 and many people asked why they skipped number 19. In reality, it was because of Northrop - F-20 was designed to sell abroad, and Russians used odd numbers for their planes - i.e. MiG-15, 19, 21, or Su-17 and 27, so the Northrop boys wanted an even number so there will be no confusion. But many believed that F-19 is the new secret stealth fighter, that many people were talking about. Testors, a well known model company, decided to capitalize on that rumors and introduced a model of the hypothetical F-19 in 1986. Making models of machines that don't exist isn't all that uncommon, but at that time everybody knew that USAF is getting a new stealth fighter. Testors as a company worked closely with american aviation industry, producing higly detailed models for pilot training and engineers. So when they introduced that model, everybody assumed that it's based on the real stealth fighter. When F117 crashed a little bit later, many televisions used F-19 model as an ilustration. One congresmann even oficially asked Lockheed why they refuse to show them the stealth fighter since they showed it to Testors. In 1988 F-117 was officialy revealed, and it didn't look anything like the F-19 model. But Testors didn't mind - all the publicity made their model insanely popular, and today it's commonly assumed that it was the best selling scale model of all times.

I had the Y-shaped one that resembled a fidget spinner (or the three ended foam boomerang thing)

I have the Testors F19 and the counterpart to it in my model room, still in their boxes. Both kool designs.

I was wondering how far I'd have to scroll before I saw something like this. Turns out, I only had to scroll about half a page lol

Lol. I came here looking for this comment.

Wait... what was the first rule again? 🤣

@@dudepool7530 Ask the Marketing and PR-team. We have no Infos to share.

Yea it’s a cool plane and this new one is also cool as well

The "Project Aurora" you mean, not sure if it was hypersonic, but it had indeed some exotic means of propulsion.

Testing or in service? I'm sure the US has done technology demonstration planes, but they may have been too expensive to field (yes even for the US). Orrrrrr, they kept running the conventional engines until they were far at sea (and away from seismic detectors) and then lit the high speed engines.

@Anne Frank Vape Pen Yes.

@@RuiLuz I don't know if it was necessary project Aurora, but something traveling at Hypersonic speeds was definitely tracked by the USGS back in the 90's. It was flying at or above 100,000 ft. As far as the Aurora goes, I tend to believe Ben Rich when he said that was the code name for the B2 while it was being built.

@@kennethng8346 Testing as far as I know. Some aviation buffs saw what looked like a 1/4 scale demonstrator landing in Palmdale in 2018 I believe it was. By now, who knows what they've accomplished with the program. The US has let the Russians and Chinese get ahead in hypersonic missile tech(and even that's debatable) but I highly doubt they've let them get ahead in hypersonic airplane tech also. There's some really cool stuff flying around out in the desert, and over the ocean.

You bloody Beauty 🇦🇺

It actually started at 0:17

@@Benson_aka_devils_advocate_88 chief complainer 😂

My kinda keyboard warrior 🤣

Thx

His name was Simon Whistler. His name was Simon Whistler.

Maybe be mass effect was played during design phase

😁the problem if it is fuel consuming ICBM >> how it will it return back from enemy territory ..& the capiltalistim ignorant propaganda narcists want to add a pilot to this equation ... yeah to ease its capture of course 😂 tell the US propaganda to think about drones in deceiving taxpaying population .. rather than the "stealth myths" 👻

What a brilliant question

@@rayanaltowayan9558 We already know that radar stealth is compromised at sub- and low supersonic speeds in 5th generation fighters once the weapons bay is opened. At hypersonic speeds, just safely opening the bay then safely *and* successfully separating a weapon is a massive challenge for aircraft structural integrity let alone any hint of stealth. To use an example from fiction, it's akin to teleportation of living people from the surface of a planet to a ship passing by at high warp speeds. Two fantastically complex technologies each need to work flawlessly in conjunction while mutually compromising one of their safe operational parameters at the same moment. In films, the writers "just arm wave it" into being successful as my Calculus Professor once said. However a real engineering solution is need IRL.

😁the problem if it is fuel consuming ICBM >> how it will it return back from enemy territory ..& the capiltalistim ignorant propaganda narcists want to add a pilot to this equation ... yeah to ease its capture of course 😂 tell the US propaganda to think about drones in deceiving taxpaying population .. rather than the "stealth myths" 👻

But it didn't Carry 5 times it's mass in a Bay. LOL, listen to the requirements.They are Physically IMPOSSIBLE.

drones are boring

Its likely to be both with some piloted and some drones

Cruise. He's not Hispanic.

@@mirzaahmed6589 I love this response, cause it's exactly what i was gonna say.

@@mirzaahmed6589 Who knows these days. That pronoun thingy might pop up with him at some point.

@@mirzaahmed6589 Everyone loves the grammar police 🙄

I agree. It has to be pumped full of jetfuel til the very last minute, but launches on its own power. The inefficient engines then seal gaps in the wing and the fluids stop leaking as the airframe heats under its own control.

There is video of it taking off on its own. Not sure where his research told him that the j58 required towing.

as usual, he's almost without any sort of clue. Clearly he just relies on copy generated by someone else, maybe a crappy AI?

I've watched the Blackbird launch from Kadena AFB on Okinawa back in the mid 1970s. It wasn't towed, it took off under its own power, the J-58 engines with full afterburner shook the ground miles away. The plane would take off conventionally then climb out at high speed to meet up with a KC-135 tanker to refuel.

Maybe he meant it figuratively and it came out wrong.

The same as any other sonic boom

@@errorbyte7657 That's not how sonic shockwaves work though. A bullet traveling just above mach 1 makes a different shockwave than the same bullet traveling at mach 3, and a different sound when it goes by at those speeds. both sonic shockwaves are VASTLY different than the sonic shockwave produced by any military jet out there. There is currently research into how to make a supersonic passenger jet with a sonic boom that sounds more like a sonic car door slamming somewhere down the block, or thunder in the distance. I've no idea where you got this idea, but it has zero basis in reality.

@@xisusformerlyderucci9444 mmmm yeah, go back to the engineering jargon video you just came from... the joke's old...

@@xisusformerlyderucci9444 if that tech is legitimate, then why aren't we talking about the Concord coming back?

@@TheOriginalFaxon Isn't it something about the size of the object breaking the speed of sound makes different sound waves, but the actual loudness of boom is around the same (110db according to NASA) They just sound different?

I caught that one to.

@Ianardo um, those aren't secrets. Everything I said is available to the public. As for you doubting me doing any of that...that is your problem.

Like too secret fighter stuff, including jet fighters

@@kestrel2120 well it's project mayhem and the first rule is you dont ask questions

This makes me think it's not even the main plane, but a testbed for the airframes perfection along what engine is powering it, like, it wasn't said but I feel the B1B And B1R aren't what the military were looking for so their doing more testing. It's not what your being told it's what's not said that should be looked at.

Someone call Tyler, we got some balls to cut off.

SR-71 Blackbird SR-72 Robert Paulson

+ a depleted uranium core

Rods from God. Also a really cool theoretical space warfare platform.

@@billma8 Unfortunately too heavy for space deployment, better to have a smaller precise package to be launched from aircraft which would be much cheaper.

@@billma8 Another Pipe dream. A Tungsten rod would simply smash through a lot of Materials without transferring the energy.(that's WHY you use it as Armor piercing ammo) If your goal is a tiny, but deep crater, yes. viable. If you think of it as an "Earthquake inducing Impact", go back to school.

And it would make a neat splash

2 things can be true.

The J-58 used the bypass air around the turbojet engine in order to use the strengthened afterburner as a ramjet. It had an annoying tendency to enter an "un-start state", requiring the pilot to constantly monitor the gauges.

@@everettputerbaugh3996 FYI - Most of the thrust created by the J-58 engine system as installed in the SR-71 occurred in the intake section at max cruise speed. At best the ejector nozzle added a little less than 30% of total thrust, around 17% from the engine exhaust and the rest from the intake physics. The Concorde was even better at harnessing intake thrust with a percentage in the high 60's.

As with stealth, when they weapons bay open, all advantages are gone. Same I guess for hypersonic.... maybe slow to sonic range and accelerate back to hyper after weapons deploy? 🤔

@@Powerflinch They tried something like that with the old Vigilante and also with the Valkyrie. I know at least once with the Vigilante, they had the "bomb" get trapped in the slipstream of the aircraft and follow it.

It's mentioned that the engines are designed to transition from high and fast to low and stealthy, and vice versa. Presumably you are not opening a payload bay at Mach 10, but rather at a more reasonable speed. Then throttling up and away before any antiair defense systems can catch you. Then again, the SR-classification is for reconnaissance craft, so there may not be a payload bay either. There's a lot of spitballing going on about an aircraft nobody can confirm exists, nevermind what it's capable of.

I don't know, but maybe they've developed this advanced concept hitherto confined to the realm of science fiction, called "slowing down." It's theorized that it could also make landing easier.

@@ivarwind The problem with slowing down TOO far from hyper-sonic speeds is you can't restart those engines without an outside boost. And even at high sub-sonic speed you don't want to open a belly bomb-bay. Not if you want to maintain control of your aircraft at least!

Hypersonic variant of the Iron Hand/Wild Weasel mission; interesting take!

You mean the old 'Wanka' engine design? Uh....it didn't work.

Nope

if the friction on the missile casing gets so hot the internals combust, yes, that can happen.

@@jackhemsworth7515 Have you ever seen Aerodynamic Bomb bays? The inflow would be hitting the back wall with such a tremendous force, it would act like a drag chute, if not outright tear off the back of the plane, or warp the airframe to a point, where a safe landing is not possible anymore.

I imagine they would have to be deployed high up in near space where there is less air friction

But with AA-Missiles already twice as fast. WHAT'S THE POINT OF IT?

Best we can do is send 100 billion to the most corrupt country in Europe

Can we just get a job

While a fun meme, it's actually really frustrating as the US healthcare system is the most inefficient in the Western world. If it changed to almost any European system you'd get cheaper healthcare and a healthier working population without cutting the military industrial complex ^^ they might actually get more cash if insurance money wasn't going to the Cayman islands and millions of working hours weren't lost to preventable health issues

America has to spend more on the military to pay for the defense of the freeloaders in Europe.

Living wage is on businesses, not the government. Rent and property costs are on the government.

@@benwhite6385 what the hell is even that?!

During the end credits, a certain Lockheed gets a special mention for the Dark Star.........

@@pigeonpoo1823 Is that so... 😏 I see...

Could well be, Check out Professor Simon Holland.

No, it would likely be a predecessor if they are putting out public contract requests They likely are flying the next ‘Aurora’ now

@@Laminar-Flow That’s a possibility

Bro are you serious lmao 🤣☠️

The new GE 9x and Rolls Royce Ultra fan are the largest

I think the ge might be a tad bigger

Well, technically he can say "One of the largest", if you're referencing "within the top 20 out of 200 engine types".

Touch grass

True enough however the 777x hasn't been certified yet, so the GE 9x isn't being used commercially, and the Ultra Fan is still in pre-production. But you are correct, they will be the largest.🙂

The jet engine is dead weight in scram mode - so the more parts you can share between the two engines? the less dead weight you carry.