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Time to revive the SR-71

Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2011 8:43 am
by HappyHappy
The era of drones and remote control has already passed!
Anyone cam jam the things once they learn what frequency
we are operating at.

We the people built the best in 1962 (as the A-12).
Take em out of storage, re-posess em from museums.
REVIVE the SR-71 program!

HH

Re: Time to revive the SR-71

Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2011 1:22 pm
by Pudfark
Well, that's not gonna happen....
To large a carbon foot print...
Won't create enough jobs....
It has nothing to do with furthering entitlement...
No impact on Obama's re-election efforts...

Most important?
It doesn't waste enough money.

Many other reasons...that's just a few....

Happy Holidays HH ;)

Re: Time to revive the SR-71

Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2011 1:25 pm
by Hawklore
The next reconnaissance vehicle will be a high atmospheric VTOL frame.

AKA: Zeppelin!!!


-cross fingers-

Re: Time to revive the SR-71

Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2011 5:02 pm
by Pudfark
Up..Up..and away.....Hawklore is on to something.....other, than helium :P :)

Re: Time to revive the SR-71

Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2011 12:58 am
by Barfly
All the SR motors were trashed doing high speed ramjet testing years ago.... and recreating the no longer existing tooling to rebuild / build motors would be prohibitively expensive.

Much cooler than that plastic remote control crap we use now though..

Re: Time to revive the SR-71

Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2011 5:17 am
by fatman
Do you think that the replacement isnt already in the air, check out Scotland sonic booms i remember reading about some crazy fast plane.