The SR-71 was introduced in 1966 and is touted as the fastest jet in the world to this day - a rocket is not a jet. And for anyone to think that we have not already destroyed this record time and time again - is just asinine - it's 2022.

@@AEON. this is my exact argument! I'm confident we had this tech figured out on paper before the turn of the century, however what likely continued to hold us back after that was computer power. Well, we've certainly got the computer power taken care of now. Remember when the B-2 Spirit bomb flew for 20 years before anyone knew it even existed? One day in like 1997 the US govt was like oh yeah by the way, here's some tech that literally didn't exist yesterday to any of you, but to us is 20 years old. They still haven't told us what replaced the B-2 as 'super secret aircraft in service we dont know about'. We don't even know what tech we actually held in the 90s, let alone 2022.

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altitude is the answer.

Just stick a strong Ion shield on it, it will be fine.

What solid research? From a movie? Pleeese.

@@kokomo9764 lol liberal are all tv brainwashed sheep

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Well said and agreed.

Certain countries hypersonic missiles are just speculation as well.

Um Popular Science?

@@sergeantgutter6552 nahh. Like a magazine that mainly had ads pertinent to sales and descriptions of private planes.

I was in the air force from 1979 until 1985 and I agree with the marine pilot we have stuff that will go Mach 20

@@lplp8542 yea... like the Space Shuttle 🤣

@@quickcooper61 nope. They mean air breathing.

Then if you saw it why are you exposing what you saw in threat of national security? Also it’s the sr 91, not sr 92 and the sr 72 was announced in 2014 so you either lying or it’s another Aroura or tr3b black manta

@@nastasedr please explain to me the air breathing propulsion system that gets something up to mach 20, if there were such an object that could go that fast without burning up 🤣

When they "retired it" it was still a super annoying headache to intercept with modern missiles and an undisclosed true top speed. We leaned into satellites and slower drones more without the need to hot dog over massive amounts of hostile airspace. Lots of experimentation in design and late term SR-71 missions have obviously been conflated with diversionary things like the subsonic B-2 and "aliens". Technology and materials advanced so much they finally are able to do away with a list of danger foibles and load occupiers. I suspect a piloted version is the grail for doing things that involve not being spoofed into the ground or having a data stream to pirate since we are doing the Cold War thing all over again. People forget the YF-12 and XB-70 were a thing, and now they also want both. This airframe will be the cause of so many S500 cope posts in the future when it can basically spy, electronic mothership, shoot satellites out of orbit and bomb with impunity. The cycle of 'Russia makes asinine ability claim and the MIC goes "ALO, BLYAT XAXAXAXA" in their trillion dollar panic response space ship' repeats. For levity, the one time the Russians got to fuck with an SR-71 without fail suiciding a Foxbat, they shit the bed violating airspaces to get to a crippled one only to find angry Swedes already scrambled to deal with the mystery plane that had been pissing off air defense for so long. 23 years after first flight and they still couldn't do anything about it taking pictures, lmfao.

They don't even build something until its old tech. The US operates on the presumption that if they build something it WILL be stolen. That means the Raptor was old tech when built in the 90's-it was based on stealth tech and design from the early 80's. The F-117A stealth tech was based on old early 60's stealth tech. Anytime they build something remember they could have built it a decade (or two) earlier, and when they publicly announce it and show it off they are already at least two generations past.

that philosophy is not true.

@@adamsauer6516 true or not, it's what they do and have done since the Soviets stole nuclear weapons technology. They learned a hard lesson about information control regarding cutting edge technology.

@@adamsauer6516 True or not,when something is declassified to the public, something else related to that gets classified in exchanged. Could be something far better than the one declassified but they wont just declassify advance technology without having some sort of leverage or a trump card on the peeking eye of spies and enemies of the US.

😂 that's awesome!!!!! Just imagine at one point the SR-71 was flying around and nobody would have ever thought it was realistic! I can only imagine what ufo type shit they are keeping secret

Darkstar is real but it doesn't look like the 1 in Top Gun and doesn't go Mach 10 nor could turn that tight. The wingspan & wing area of actual darkstar is bigger.

Lol, Lockheed trolling conspiracy theorists and rival nations, that's hilarious. "Is it real? _Who knows?"_

@@PaulGuy Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows.

@@chadbailey30 I could believe, I have been 15 feet beneath the UFO type shit in broad daylight

Now you miss him coming home talking to you about all that tec stuff you use to be bored with. You will see him again and it wont be for just a few years. God Bless

@@giggleherz Maybe he "didn't" come home and talk about his work, precisely because he wasn't allowed to, at least at the time. 😉

Hi, Tama. NAR made the iconic B-1B, which is a beautiful looking bomber. Some years back, when I was still working for the AF I stood in the shipping and receiving area of another contractor (other than the one I was working for) next to some crates that contained the equipment that manufactured the fuselage of the B-1B. They were being shipped to...of all places...China. The U.S. received 'assurances' from the Chinese that that equipment would not be used for other than 'civilian purposes'. Much respect for NAR and all of the amazing contributions they made to aviation...including my favorite aircraft of all time...the North American XB-70 Valkyrie...an absolute legend.

@@billg3645 to bad the xb-70 never went farther if it did then the F-108 would have been as well

@@bobthompson4319 It seems at least likely that the right decisions aren't always made, when it comes to deciding which weapon systems ultimately get the nod. Curtis Lemay (the first CinCSAC) is rumored to have said that the reason we didn't go into full production with the XB-70 is that it would have bankrupted the Soviet Union to defend against it.

Yep, and they keep all the amazing technology for themselves.

I once sat in a lecture (aerospace engineering student in the ‘80’s) by a lead engineer on the shuttle program in which he characterized the aerodynamics of the shuttle as a 35-ton brick moving at Mach 31. Hypersonic is right. 🙂

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That's pretty much what these systems Russia and China say they have, needed to be launched from air at high speeds and accelerate to hypersonic while falling. U.S. is going to have true hypersonic scamjet cruise missiles and aircraft.

*refurbishable, not truly re-usable. The shuttle was a pseudo glider, and it only reached atmospheric hypersonic speeds because it had to fall that fast.

and it was able to survive reentry

I was under the impression some Cold War jets were built to dash and intercept, not engage in dogfighting. Their weapons were designed with that in mind. Might be the same here.

In my opinion it could be quite a great fighter. A war against Russia or China would be fought in the air beyond visual range (BVR). Chinese & Russian stealth technology is about 30-40 years behind the US (still can't replicate stealth of the F-22, F117 or B2). It could be stealthy which means it could fire long range air to air missiles against the enemy, before he is seen on the enemy radar, then it could run away, launch Hypersonic Air to Surface Missiles (maybe two AGM-183 ARRWs or something else?!) without getting hit, turn back to the base and collect intel while doing this --> Multi Purpose?! For the first 10-20 years in service it could be absolutely undestructable. I don't know a Radar in an Aircraft which could target aircrafts flying over Mach 3. Let alone firing a Missile which travels at mach 6+ and could pull 9G turns. Its one thing to build a Hypersonic Gliding Vehicle which can reenter at hypersonic speeds, but another to build an aircraft which can fly hypersonic. That would be a REAL gamechanger.

I remember the SR-71 had an intercept or fighter variant. At the time there wasn't anything fast enough to justify that, and it kept catching up to the missiles it fired. I don't know if computers have gotten fast enough to track hypersonic missiles for this SR-72 to act as an interceptor for those. If it does exist it will be an amazing leap forward in technology.

There is widespread "speculation" in the Air Force that a very new fighter/air superiority aircraft replacement for the F-22 is upcoming. There's no planned upgrades or modernization programs for the F-22 which is very unique. Also the planned "obsolescence" for the F-22 is not that far down the road. All this has raised eyebrows. Plus the F-22 is not for sale so one could easily conclude there is tech inside that's getting passed on to another craft.

I think this is 100% true, the US always plays coy and “behind” on technology

its not a fighter, its a surveillance aircraft like the SR-71 and 72

Do any of you actually work in the defense industry? 🤣

"Aurora" doesn't exist, yes there was definitely a classified hypersonic aircraft built as an SR-71 replacement that has yet to be revealed today but Aurora was certainly not the name, the name Aurora was mentioned in an UNCLASSIFIED budget document.. Ben Rich who was the head of Skunk Works later confirmed it was the codename for the B-2 funding mechanism.. To add to that, SR-91 was the designation given to the Aurora by enthusiasts and the TR3B is a complete myth that only UFO nerds believe in..

@@fademusic1980 Which we don't really need anymore satellites and drones have taken over the information gathering space

Richard Jackson , Again, but with gusto... AMEN!

"Balanced report"? It's from a fictional movie. There's number of problems with this fictional plane. Head on or front profile has to be small as possible. The plane is literally plowing into a wall of air. For example, the new F-16s can fly as high as mach 2.05 without attachments (bombs, missiles, etc) on it's hard point, but less than 600 miles per hour, fully loaded. The attachments causes the plane to slow down because the increased air pressure in the front (air resistance). There is also drag, vacuum behind the attachments and the plane. Pressure in the front, vacuum behind slows the airplane down. Fast planes must have smallest head-on profile as possible (low wind resistance and low drag). The SR-71 is a long plane. It can hold a lot of fuel. Faster you go, more fuel you need. Making the plane longer, avoids the increase in wind resistance and minimizes drag, while increasing the capacity for more fuel. The positions of the engines also may have advantages. They are spaced apart so they are not thrusting the same adjacent air, for greater thrust (suspicion, not proven). The fictional plane at least got that part right. Actually, there is another plane that competed with the F-22. F-23 was said to be faster, using the same engine P&W F119, but spaced further apart over 3(?) feet or more. It's hard to say for certain, since they have different shapes (aerodynamics). Impracticality of hyper-sonic planes. There is a phenomena where traveling at high speeds in the atmosphere causes high heat (reentry for example). This maybe explained by flammable gases (hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen) in the air. Under high air pressure, these gases may accumulate enough to ignite. The SR-71 experiences temperatures in the range of 600-1000 degrees at operating speeds and seems a bit high, when you consider air at high altitude, air is very cold (-60 to -69 degrees F). Is it really friction alone doing that? Friction involves two solid objects being rubbed against each other and no cooling. Plain fire can range from 400 - 9000 degrees F. The SR-71 seems to be experiencing low level fire on the leading edges, during operations. Cold and hot air and altitude can accumulate enough to produce electrical sparks (static electricity, lightning). Mixed with flammable gases flying faster or at mach 2.5, you are literally torching the plane. A cross between arc welding and blow torch. Plane starts to heat up a but below Mach 1. [Fuel deleted] - It's actually called JP-7 (jet propellant). Flying at those speeds would require lot of replacement parts due to structural stresses. SR-71 expands by 3 to 4 inches during flight. The Concorde, about 1 foot. Contraction and expansion, every time it flies at high speeds, reduces it life expectancy. It's unlikely "economy of scale" will ever be able to catch up, as cost will spiral out of control and very impractical.

@@starbase51shiptestingfacil97 Funny how conventional physics show us more and more how much quantum environments can act to make the impossible - possible.

@@ThomasLee123 A. science fiction > science fact. B. science fact > science fiction.

The best way to protect the technology is to not do joint ventures with our "allies". This is what drove up the cost of the F 35 program (everyone wanted a piece of the production pie), and led to security leaks. Turkey is a good example of an unreliable ally that had a part in production of the F 35 components. There hasn't been any problems along that line with the F 22 (not that I'm aware of), because the program was completely homogeneous, and hermetic, so to speak.

Seconded

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Fourthed

exactly this!

everything in moderation. well mostly. :-)

I feel the Darkstar is probably 'real' in the same way the F-19 Stealth fighter was 'real' There were some gnarly designs that the F-19 was attributed to and (I think) a pretty cool aircraft. Later on it was revealed that what the public was thinking was the F-19 turned out to be the F-117. SO a real plane, but a incorrect public interpretation.

Military operations from video games maybe.

E. S. , Hey, it ain't cool to find you need three states to turn around over.

Please give more insightfulness on any of these mysterious craft Sir.Secret craft have been witnessed by many for years.I believe most UFO sightings are these great Craft being tested.What do you think about that big boomerang craft supposably seen and reported flying across a few States before the Phoenix lights episode later on that night.I have seen a grainy supposed video of it flying and banking and the strobe lights on the wingspan make it seem huge.Thats no flare over downtown.Its a godamn something flying around over people's towns and it big and freaking everyone out!Is it a hoax?All those reported sightings?Am i crazy to think it could be possible?

@@vinniemoreno704 Mr. Moreno, I do not have a lot of answers just like the rest of us however I have "some" knowledge. That "boomerang" platform may have been a version of stealth lighter than air vehicle tested by Skunkworks/Airforce Research Lab. A very large airframe approaching 270' with a spend of 300 knots and lifting capacity of 4940 lbs. A smaller version was being created for the U.S. Navy along with a nonrigid frame so they could be assembled on aircraft carriers. In other words, a stealth blimp that could stay aloft for more 24hrs undetected with a speed of 320 knots and lifting capacity of 3400 lbs. At the time they were being considered for "team insertion" and "exfiltration". There were many types being considered, command and control, aerial refueling over contested airspace for F-117 and B-2, team insertion (ha-lo- hi-ho), cargo, and troop transport. One type under consideration that may be relevant to Phionex was an electronic warfare variant with many capabilities like the ALQ-249. Possible emp, and jamming, but not just other aircraft but shutting down entire areas to deny enemy operations of any kind completely (electronically). Now, this part is just a rumor so I do not know how accurate this is but there may have been something called "nightlight". Testing an optical system that could project objects in the infrared and visual spectrum as well. A hologram of some application. Obviously, I wasn't there so i can only speculate but it's possible that the "boomerang" was a military platform and was testing the electronic warfare capabilities ...specifically, the "nightlight" capability on the citizens of Phoenix. It is also possible it was a military platform observing a UAP and attempting to collect as much data as possible. Remember one thing, as long as the public believes it is something from another world our enemies do as well, so officially it isn't United States technology. have a great day, and hope this helped a little.

The Aurora huh? Late 80's early 90's that's what this thing is based off of, looks like it too

Thank you for your insightful response.That direction of flight advancement is very intriguing and worth exploring.Mindblowing and amazing craft made by Man. Professor; People have beliefs but Is anything possible? For instance.Could extra terrestrial life exist?or just God exists?My Mother's church forbids evolution and E.T talk.

4s pushin it but 3, i could see 3. 2 or 3 decades honestly

read every comment like this and put it together and research more.something badass definitely exist

Well said

It's starting to make sense. An epic trolling of the PLA with their carrier news.

It’s their marketing department. Those people don’t have any access.

Christian O. Holz , Oh, there is someone else out there that remembers JAG? LOL OMG!

@@BruceNitroxpro ;) I didn't really watch it when it first aired, but just a few years ago on DVD. JAG definitely has great moments and it did spawn the TV series NCIS. A few years back the JAG cast shortly reclaimed their former roles in a guest appearance in NCIS: LA And yea, the female main actress was quite pretty too :) I have a thing for smart women in uniform ;) Yes, Catherine Bell is her name. I think I began to develop more of an appreciation and interest in the show after working for a government in a legal department as well. Though, to be fair, I do like smart TV content that is challenging and educational with a good story line

Taking out of your ass.

Aurora is Darkstar. SR-72 is a troll like you said. Black projects are ultra top secret. No civilian hears about their existence till they are taken out of service. Great comment.

oh dear lord there is so much wrong with this comment i don't know where to start

@@xlgapelsin6173 So tell me, are you a specialist in advanced military aviation technology or did you ever work for them?

@@psibet900 Do you have a basic understanding of physics? the extreme heat generated would melt anything we have currently (hence why the shuttles and rockets for space have heatshields that have to be replaced after every launch even tho they only go mach 20 for very short amounts of time on reentry) and not to mention the problem of drag that occours the faster you go. to dumb it down when it comes to top speed drag is the problem. To counter drag you have to streamline the thing going fast and as has been proven with the sr71 that means no turning since it couldn't turn for shit. drag is the killer of high speeds and is a major part in the compromise in high speeds or manouverability. I would like you to provide me with credible sources for your claims about aurora and sr91 and other things you have mentioned

This is correct. I think the Lockheed engineers who collaborated with the producers of Top Gun suggested this name with a wink and a nod.

@@mattfoss1652 Quite possibly, took me most of the day but found the old documentary I was looking for kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bbZnptZ3x9fOko0.html

CB transmissions?

@@raymondweaver8526 Citizens band radio (also known as CB radio), you can pick up some military signals on Public bandwidths, not always but occasionally.

8 or more years maybe and we could see if some of these are true, other than that, you wont find a definitive answer because its top secret/classified as fuckkk. US is ahead of everyone else in Aerial technology but I hope they move or currently is caught up with the Missile technology. China or Russia could be bluffing but we not taking chances today lol.

@Mitchell Couchman The Aurora has been active since 1989. There's satellite imagery going at 8,000 mph back in 1992. Seismologists that tracked the sonic booms as not that of the space shuttle signature. It crashed in 1994 @ Boscome Down in the UK. Not much has been mentioned about it, since other than some Area 51 workers were trying to take the government to court in the early 90's because the chemicals they were working with to give it the heat resistance were giving them health issues like cancer.

It's not. I recall back in like 4th grade. 1988ish. A lady who worked for NASA came to speak at our school. (Very private school). Shebtalked about a jet that was being developed in combination with NASA that would fly VERY fast in the lower layer of space. I don't recall a whole lot, but the whole Aurora Dadkstar discussion kind of unlocked an old memory of this situation at school. I never put the two together until I saw images of the alleged aircraft. They look the same as the one the lady brought to our school in the 80s

In light of the ubiquitous cameras in Ukraine & their affect, I have renewed my unease with everyone's right to know and the need for OPSEC especially during the development phase. Average joe loves the cool videos over beer, but especially so do the unfriendly security services.

@@TB-zf7we true except in cases of when DOD uses certain press releases that are used as deterence to influence our adversaries. Our adversaries do the same with systems such as S-400/S-500, Zircon/Kensal missiles as well as others in an attempt to pressure their adversaries, United States, into altering their stances.

I have a feeling that what we're looking at is the next phase in a U.S counterintelligence operation Think about it why would skunk works an organization infamous for its secrecy corroborate on making a stealth aircraft for a film. It's to get the rumor mills flying and our adversaries spending resources chasing shadows. Meanwhile skunk works will quietly go back to whatever it is there actually working on

China and Russia can't even build a fighter on par with the F35, let alone F22. Bet you they couldn't even build an SR71 clone. Their hypersonic weapons they love to rave about are nothing more than missiles which can accelerate with gravity's help.

They could just be giving false attributes and twists some of the assumed abilities to confuse China or Russia if they ever try to probe. Usually only the top high ranks of the military or engineers get to know the true capabilities of a work in progress highly classified prototype/project that's maybe coming in or around 2030. So let's assume they're not dumb and smart enough to have a false safe or a backup plan incase spies infiltrate and try to get info on this tech. We're kinda at a mini Cold-War on Hypersonic missiles instead of Nukes now. Hypersonic presents a better and efficient threat without destroying the whole world like Nuking which would result in a Nuke war exchange.

it was the donuts on a rope contrail not to metion seismic sensors getting tripped from sonic booms across the united stated in the mid 90s extrapalated a speed of mach 10

I've seen the soap on a rope contrail twice. Both times I was in South Florida and both times the trail went from west to east horizon to horizon very fast and very high. I couldn't even see the plane making the trail nor hear the plane. That was years ago. I've seen plenty of contrails from planes but these two times stood out simply because of that soap on a rope look and the speed at which it went. Whatever it was it was just flying over Florida. I've never seen it since those two times. I figure it was just the new version of the SR-71.

give it 40 years and you might get to see it publicly, its impossible to hide something like that forever. Think F-117

That's very intriguing.

You should try to record these events somehow and upload a video explaining the phenomenon.

Might be an opportunity to gather an audience and put together a little content of my own, but, I don't know how to record ambient audio in a way that effectively conveys how powerful the source is without actually seeing it. With a good microphone and no wind it would just sound like a low rumble. You know how the sound of large engined aircraft like a 777 or A350 taking off permeates everything while you're standing in a terminal? Almost like that, seemingly coming from all directions, or no direction (other than up) and less intense. Anyway, trying to uncover something my country is developing and has taken noticeable steps to conceal (that isn't harmful to us or our constitution) isn't on my moral compass

Yep, i even said oh shit the Aurora in the theater XD

Tr3b is the triangle

Thank you. I just commented almost the exact same thing. People don't understand we've had hypersonic technology for a very long time now. We're labeled as conspiracy theorists if we say anything other than what's publicly acknowledged. It's irritating!

A Pulse Wave Detonation Engine aka doughnuts on a rope. Been heard and seen above SoCal since the 80's. Plane description was a big pointed black triangle. More pointed than Darkstar.

Im hopeful of the dark budget elements of Artemis for that latter part. Among the areas of interest is the Aitkin crater, under which has been discovered a metallic mass five times the size of the island of Hawaii. One of the leading theories is that its the remnants of a planitessimal, and if so it could hold millions of tons of highly pure minerals and metals, potentially including rare earths.

@Mark Smith thanks to what franking has opened up, the US sits on near 3 trillion barrels of oil, and the shale fields of also produce huge quantities of natural gas

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@Mark Smith yes! Combined, the entirety of America’s oil deposits, shale and conventional, is estimated to be larger than that of Russia and Saudi Arabia’s combined. But as you said, most of these are extracted via fracking. There’s literally no reason for the United States to go to war for resources in 2022 onward, unless it has directly to do with the direct defense of itseterritories from attack from an adversary identified beyond reasonable doubt and after exhaustive investigations are conducted.

@@defective6811 Apparently there are places in Canada where it's literally leaking untapped oil out of the ground

Best comment on this whole video. I didn't know JP7 was still used long after the Blackbird. Is it the only known aircraft that used it? If so that's very interesting. Also, the KC 135. Why does that matter? Did it have specific capeballities or something?

Honestly way more cost-effective in my book just to develop some new missiles I mean come on even the bumbling Russians were able to develop a hypersonic missile and a nuclear torpedo

@@whyuhatan yes but they also fell behind in everything else.

@@whyuhatan hypersonic is just a fast missile

@whyuhatan Thus far, everything that has been claimed about the Russian hypersonic missile, as well as Western efforts to create the same thing, appears to be more hype than reality. It actually makes more sense to me to do a hypersonic fighter/strike aircraft which can carry many missiles to target, than to do hypersonic missiles that cost more than a F-35 *for one missile* , and which take that $90 million or so and go blow up a target....and that's it. It's like using an F-35 filled with explosives and crashing it into a target! Just an amazing waste of money. At that price hypersonic missiles are a pipe dream, but perhaps the hypersonic fighter is not? It will be interesting to see.

@@whyuhatan Did you mean the rocket torpedo/supercavitating torpedo? Because torpedos with nuclear warheads have been around since the 1950s or so.

Attract talent.

@@hjplano Could very well be...

I think it's a counterintelligence op to get our adversaries chasing shadows

@@whyuhatan That's a valid tactic...

I'm wondering if this has any connection to Japan's intense interest in producing the "loser" to the F-22, the YF-23. Japan's govt has been making serious inquiries into refining the design and licensing for their production. Allegedly the YF-23 was less agile, but more stealthy & faster than the F-22. With a stealth aircraft, agility (dogfighting) should not be #1 concern over stealth and speed. With Japan right off the coast of hostile & aggressive Russia, a YF-23-ish aircraft seems a good fit. Oh yeh, then there's that hostile & aggressive Chy-na threatening to invade and crush everyone close to it. I'd be very concerned also. Oops...forgot about North Korea shooting missiles over Japan on purpose.

When you're going at the speeds this platform is designed for, your "dark star" becomes more of a "bright star" and any prospect of stealth is kind of a joke. May as well skip the sawtooth.

makes hiding what you're up to from the enemy rather difficult though

@@avroarchitect1793 it's all about distractions.. while you're looking over here at the small hints, they are producing over there in silence

How big was the triangular plane? Did you see it approaching or flying from vicinty of Groom Lake?

I once saw a classified film taken at Edward's AFB which showed a static engine test of one of the P&W J58 engines. Somehow it got posted on the internet late one night, but the post had been taken down by the next day. I occasionally still see still frames from that film now, but have never seen the film in its entirety since. Every aspect of its operation was clearly visible in great detail. Everything from the shock diamonds to the exhaust nozzle which was glowing so white hot it defies logic to understand how it remained intact rather than dissolving into a molten mass on the concrete in the hangar where the film was taken. Very impressive.