Lukk5
28-02-2004, 18:20
Hello, and welcome to my storefront...
Amount Left: 247
Price: 2.2billion (price will change)
At the moment lukk5 is selling the standard SR-71, until lukk5 engineers can redesign the interior with 21 Century technology without changing the plane design.
http://www.wvi.com/~lelandh/sr71nasa.jpg
http://www.wvi.com/~lelandh/srban5a.jpg
Facts:Absolute Altitude: 80,257.86 ft (24,390 meters)... YF-12A # 60-6934
Absolute Speed Over a Straight Course: 2,070.101 mph...YF-12A #60-6936
Absolute Speed Over a 500km Closed Course: 1,688.889 mph...YF-12A #60-6936
Absolute Speed Over a 1,000km Closed Course: 1,643.041 mph... YF-12A #60-6936
http://www.wvi.com/~lelandh/nasa8.jpg
SR-71 (blackbird)
Function: Very-high-speed, high-altitude Aerial Reconnaissance
Length: 107 feet 5 inches
Wingspan: 55 feet 7 inches
Height: 18 feet 6 inches
Max takeoff weight: 140,000 pounds
http://www.wvi.com/~lelandh/b44.jpg
Max Speed: Mach 3.2 above 75,000 feet
Crew: 2 (Pilot and Reconnaissance Systems Operator)
Number built: SR-71A: 29...SR-71B: 2...SR-71C: 1
Fixed Armament: none.
Engines: 2 Pratt & Whitney J-58 engines 34,000 lbs thrust
Editors comments: Speed and altitude numbers for the planes are less than the planes could and did fly! Normal SR-71A cruise was 80,000' to 85,000'. Due to the additional cockpit mounted for the SR-71B, it was necessary to add two ventral fins and to allow increased rudder deflection to prevent excessive asymmetric thrust from destroying the plane. The YF-12A's also had ventral fins, including a large one that folded for takeoff and landing. The "B" and "C" model could fly to Mach 3.2.
The SR-71 Blackbird is powered by two Pratt & Whitney J-58 turbo-ramjets, each developing 32,500 pounds of thrust with afterburning. The critical problems concerning supersonic flight with air breathing engines are concentrated in the air inlet area. The circular air intakes of the SR-71 contain a center body tipped with a conical spike. The spike is movable, forward for takeoff and climb to 30,000 feet after which, as speed builds up, it moves rearward, controlling the amount of air entering the engine. As it does so, Air Inlet Bypass Doors in the side of the nacelle close to establish the correct flow of air through the engine, holding the supersonic shock wave in it's critical position within the inlet. The engine itself operates at subsonic speed. At Mach 3+ the spike is three feet to the rear of it's takeoff position, slowing down the incoming airflow, establishing an area of pressure within the nacelle, which is now pushing the engine. This action is so powerful that it accounts for 58 percent of the total thrust, the engine providing only 17 percent, and the ejectors (surrounding the nacelle near the afterburner) is responsible for the remaining 25 percent. Should the shockwave be expelled from the inlet, a condition known as an "Unstart" occurs. Unstarts have been known to be so violent as to crack the pilots helmet from the severe yaw of the aircraft. If unchecked, the resulting yaw is described by SR-71 pilots as though the nose and tail are trying to swap ends. However, an automatic control system senses this problem and repositions the Spike in milliseconds, doing so with great accuracy even though air loads of up to fourteen tons are acting on the spike, dealing with the difficulty before the human brain becomes aware of the problem, and the Blackbird cruises on....faster than a rifle bullet.
http://www.wvi.com/~lelandh/rp016m.jpg
Cutaway Drawing
http://www.wvi.com/~lelandh/j58airflow.jpg
SR-71 J-58 Engine In Afterburner on the Test Cell at Beale AFB, Ca.
http://www.wvi.com/~lelandh/J58AB.jpg
Engine Specification: The first J-58s delivered to the blackbird program, all three models, had all stainless steel lines and the oil tank gold plated, the reason was for better heat dissipation. After a couple of years, and the subsequent tear down of engines, it was noted there was an abnormal amount of corrosion caused by dissimilar metal electrolysis. The gold plate was removed because the heat dissipation properties did not out weigh the cost of replacing lines as they started leaking.
Side note: When #957 crashed off the North end of the runway at Beale AFB and pictures were published, the hew and cry that came from the civilian segment about all the gold that was on the engine caused quite a commotion, even when it was explained why the gold was there. (Info courtesy Ron De Lozier)
(C) Copyright
If Lukk5 has not sold
all the SR-71, lukk5
will have all the plane
for himself.
Amount Left: 247
Price: 2.2billion (price will change)
At the moment lukk5 is selling the standard SR-71, until lukk5 engineers can redesign the interior with 21 Century technology without changing the plane design.
http://www.wvi.com/~lelandh/sr71nasa.jpg
http://www.wvi.com/~lelandh/srban5a.jpg
Facts:Absolute Altitude: 80,257.86 ft (24,390 meters)... YF-12A # 60-6934
Absolute Speed Over a Straight Course: 2,070.101 mph...YF-12A #60-6936
Absolute Speed Over a 500km Closed Course: 1,688.889 mph...YF-12A #60-6936
Absolute Speed Over a 1,000km Closed Course: 1,643.041 mph... YF-12A #60-6936
http://www.wvi.com/~lelandh/nasa8.jpg
SR-71 (blackbird)
Function: Very-high-speed, high-altitude Aerial Reconnaissance
Length: 107 feet 5 inches
Wingspan: 55 feet 7 inches
Height: 18 feet 6 inches
Max takeoff weight: 140,000 pounds
http://www.wvi.com/~lelandh/b44.jpg
Max Speed: Mach 3.2 above 75,000 feet
Crew: 2 (Pilot and Reconnaissance Systems Operator)
Number built: SR-71A: 29...SR-71B: 2...SR-71C: 1
Fixed Armament: none.
Engines: 2 Pratt & Whitney J-58 engines 34,000 lbs thrust
Editors comments: Speed and altitude numbers for the planes are less than the planes could and did fly! Normal SR-71A cruise was 80,000' to 85,000'. Due to the additional cockpit mounted for the SR-71B, it was necessary to add two ventral fins and to allow increased rudder deflection to prevent excessive asymmetric thrust from destroying the plane. The YF-12A's also had ventral fins, including a large one that folded for takeoff and landing. The "B" and "C" model could fly to Mach 3.2.
The SR-71 Blackbird is powered by two Pratt & Whitney J-58 turbo-ramjets, each developing 32,500 pounds of thrust with afterburning. The critical problems concerning supersonic flight with air breathing engines are concentrated in the air inlet area. The circular air intakes of the SR-71 contain a center body tipped with a conical spike. The spike is movable, forward for takeoff and climb to 30,000 feet after which, as speed builds up, it moves rearward, controlling the amount of air entering the engine. As it does so, Air Inlet Bypass Doors in the side of the nacelle close to establish the correct flow of air through the engine, holding the supersonic shock wave in it's critical position within the inlet. The engine itself operates at subsonic speed. At Mach 3+ the spike is three feet to the rear of it's takeoff position, slowing down the incoming airflow, establishing an area of pressure within the nacelle, which is now pushing the engine. This action is so powerful that it accounts for 58 percent of the total thrust, the engine providing only 17 percent, and the ejectors (surrounding the nacelle near the afterburner) is responsible for the remaining 25 percent. Should the shockwave be expelled from the inlet, a condition known as an "Unstart" occurs. Unstarts have been known to be so violent as to crack the pilots helmet from the severe yaw of the aircraft. If unchecked, the resulting yaw is described by SR-71 pilots as though the nose and tail are trying to swap ends. However, an automatic control system senses this problem and repositions the Spike in milliseconds, doing so with great accuracy even though air loads of up to fourteen tons are acting on the spike, dealing with the difficulty before the human brain becomes aware of the problem, and the Blackbird cruises on....faster than a rifle bullet.
http://www.wvi.com/~lelandh/rp016m.jpg
Cutaway Drawing
http://www.wvi.com/~lelandh/j58airflow.jpg
SR-71 J-58 Engine In Afterburner on the Test Cell at Beale AFB, Ca.
http://www.wvi.com/~lelandh/J58AB.jpg
Engine Specification: The first J-58s delivered to the blackbird program, all three models, had all stainless steel lines and the oil tank gold plated, the reason was for better heat dissipation. After a couple of years, and the subsequent tear down of engines, it was noted there was an abnormal amount of corrosion caused by dissimilar metal electrolysis. The gold plate was removed because the heat dissipation properties did not out weigh the cost of replacing lines as they started leaking.
Side note: When #957 crashed off the North end of the runway at Beale AFB and pictures were published, the hew and cry that came from the civilian segment about all the gold that was on the engine caused quite a commotion, even when it was explained why the gold was there. (Info courtesy Ron De Lozier)
(C) Copyright
If Lukk5 has not sold
all the SR-71, lukk5
will have all the plane
for himself.