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High speed pass caught at RAF Mildenhall - May 1986
Aircraft Nose Close-up...
SR-71 BLACKBIRD.
The nose is a good spotting feature for identifying the different Blackbird variants. The SR-71 had the wide, full chines extending all the way to the tip of the nose, see above.
The YF-12 interceptor version...
... had the chines cut back to expose the nose fairing containing the Hughes ASG-18 radar/fire control system for the three AGM-47 air-to-air missiles that it carried...
... in bays back in the chines alongside the fuselage core.
The A-12 OXCART version that the CIA operated...
...had narrower chines that ran all the way to a more pointy nose.
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A99a
I’m still free… You can’t take the sky from me.
How do you feel about drawing machinary :]
Woah- you’re in luck! I drew these very recently as practice.
They are a bit wonky… I wanted to purposefully challenge myself by not using any sketch. Full pen head on. And of course, that combined with the fact that these glorious aircrafts are inorganic, very symmetrical and in perspective in most of the reference images makes it way harder. Worth it though!
I. love. Machinery. I’ll be ecstatic to draw any prompt regarding it!
"Drunk driving through space sucks look at the size of the bugs outside???"
Who's saying it is up to interpretation
That U2 was made out of aluminum, but the SR 71 had to be made out of titanium to withstand the extremely high heat that occurs when you go 85,000 feet at 2200 mph. The Blackbird was indeed a hot airplane.🔥🔥
Kerbalx.com photo credit.
Linda Sheffield
This is not a real photo of an SR 71
THE SR71 DID NOT GLOW🔥
@Habubrats71 via X
"A NASA SR-71 successfully completed its first flight October 31, 1997 as part of the NASA/Rocketdyne/Lockheed Martin Linear Aerospike SR-71 Experiment (LASRE) at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California.
The SR-71 took off at 8:31 a.m. PST. The aircraft flew for one hour and fifty minutes, reaching a maximum speed of Mach 1.2 before landing at Edwards at 10:21 a.m. PST, successfully validating the SR-71/linear aerospike experiment configuration.
The goal of the first flight was to evaluate the aerodynamic characteristics and the handling of the SR-71/linear aerospike experiment configuration. The engine was not fired during the flight."
Date: October 31, 1997
NASA ID: EC97-44295-100
Could you make some SR-71 stamps/blinkies and/or general military and stealth planes? Ty :D
[MILITARY STEALTH PLANES - SR-71: STAMPS AND BLINKIES]
pls credit if you use
stamps best seen on dark mode
two sizes of blinkies: 730x99 px and 150x20 px
Hope I got mainly the right plane, such a cool request!