B2 is still in service unlike the f117 and the sr71

@@shayanirenberg3294 Yeah, I guess I didn't want to write an essay so I used "if and could" in my phrasing, althou you might have mistaken it for would since it's abbreviated. So anyway, I noticed that in the aircraft world people is very picky and precise, almost ocd (not this case), and I come from the custom automotive world so I know a thing or two about people splitting hair... 😅

Sr71 isnt a bomber

@@nicksothep8472 "would" wouldn't have exactly been an incorrect or inaccurate word choice there, though.

@@bambon6184 The SR-71 itself isn't, the A-12 (which is basically a just a SR-71) is capable of bombing.

You need to see the one at Duxford in the UK then as well 👍

Maybe you saw one of the many many MANY cases of metal wheels that are around us every single day...

The SR-71 is just another Conestoga Wagon.

I know where you can get a few, and they are all autographed by many of the aircrew and maintenance members.

@@danfreeman9079 sounds expensive

ALUMINUM

@@John-nc4bl Not in the British Isles

She's wrong, they're not metal infused, it's simply an aluminum paint they're coated with, you can clearly see where it's worn off on the tread face exposing the black rubber underneath, if the rubber was infused with aluminum you wouldn't see that because they'd have the aluminum color all the way through. One of the pilots talks about that in an interview and how over the year's the myth that aluminum was mixed in with the rubber somehow got started and has turned into "common knowledge", he even pointed out what I just did about it wearing off on the tread face exposing the black rubber underneath, although they don't show it because it was after the interview in his home he told the guy interviewing him that he had one of the tires out in his garage and he'd take him out to it and show him that it's just a painted on coating and not rubber infused with aluminum. The interview is with A12 pilot Frank Murray at his home, the thumbnail for it is a picture of him when he was a pilot standing in front of an A12 in uniform, not one of the flight suits but just a regular OD green uniform with the ball cap from back in those days, which I thought was odd because being an A12 pilot he was "sheep dipped" at the time and no longer in the Air Force but technically a civilian employee flying for the CIA, maybe the picture was taken right before resigning his commission while he was being trained or right after he got his commission back and had one last picture taken before he walked away from them.

Pretty much the same plane

The a-12 and sr-71 to me probably had a true top speed of mack 4+

@@legobut6949 I agree. I believe Mach 5 was even possible. But there was no need for such speeds since it already out ran surface to air missiles. The A-12 was smaller and lighter than the SR-71 but used the same j58 engines. Hard telling what it was truly capable of.

We were making the SR-71's faster up until the day they were retired from active duty. A-12 were said to be faster, but no official record attempt were made. Same said about the all the flights of the SR-71. Except one official last flight to the Smithsonian museum, breaking 4 more speed records. NASA was working to install Nitrious Oxide Injection in order to use the SR-71's to launch space satellites.

@@legobut6949 Not a chance. Certain parts of the plane would begin to melt at around Mach 3.8. Ben Rich, the designer of the A-12 propulsion system said so. The ultimate top speed of the plane was limited by the compressor inlet temperature of 427 degrees Centigrade; the local atmospheric conditions allowed some variation as to when this was reached, but I can assure you no one exceeded it. The claimed top speed was Mach 3.5 over Libya in 1986 by pilot Brian Shul (recently deceased) when outrunning a SAM.

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Cool story bro

The SR - 71 is in the record books , even though they are pretty much the same Plane ...!

how about the A-10?

@@rammbostein The A-10's top speed was 420mph, not even Mach 1, let alone Mach 3+

@@rammbostein heck, I think the P-51 mustang is even faster that that flying tank...

Or maybe they are better historians than video producers and somehow through their ignorance you and i both have seen their informative yet a beginning stage video as they learn to do better. Be a better person.

bro what are you even saying 😂