Are we living in the future?

Are we living in the future?

Other urls found in this thread:

youtube.com/watch?v=8AyHH9G9et0
youtube.com/watch?v=8zvmWyBje04&t=3m36s
youtube.com/watch?v=IiBsD-cafH8
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_Johnson_(engineer)
youtu.be/Mp_dXDdidmw
twitter.com/SFWRedditGifs

only to those living in the past.

Are we using technology from the past?

when was this aircraft built? it looks like a fucking spaceship

>A plane that first came out over 50 years ago

Yeah, sure

>you will never be the fastest thing in the sky

Designed in the 1950's with no computers.

1960s Blackbird SR-71

its based on the almost identical A12, which first flew in 1962.

the SR71 itself first flew 54 years ago.

is it nuke-proof then? (non-direct)

no, Dusty 52, you will not be the fastest thing in the sky.

youtube.com/watch?v=8AyHH9G9et0

you can tell the design of this aircraft was not from earth. its way to scifi and the fact it was done without a computer reinforces that even more.

combat version

search for the term TR-3B on Google Image Search

what in the fuck, is this thing legit?

Nah, the future hasn't come yet

Reminder that this thing first flew 71 years ago.

Depends.
About half the country is living in the past.
So, you takes your chances.

Reminder that these things were first.

...

...

...

...

...

look how the design is exactly the same
i doubt thats a coincidence

The Lockheed SR-71 "Blackbird." It still holds the record for the fastest manned aircraft. Over 90% of it is made of titanium. On the ground, it leaks fuel like cum leaks from a cheerleader's pussy on prom night, but once it gets into the air, the friction causes so much expansion of the air frame that the leaks stop.

The SR-71 flew at 80,000 feet and speeds of Mach 3.2 (up to 3.5 during some missions). The Soviets fired over 1000 surface to air missiles at the Blackbird, but they flew so high and so fast, that the SAMs couldn't go high enough or fast enough to catch them... none were lost due to enemy fire.

In the comic books, a modified Blackbird was the aircraft of the X-Men. In Anime, Alucard crashed one into an aircraft carrier in Hellsing Ultimate. Do a google search on "Aspen 20 - the SR-71 Blackbird Groundspeed Story." It is definitely worth a read.

I give fuck-all about jets, but this magnificent bastard of a plane makes me diamond every time I see one.

...

Yes, and also the past.

Honesty it's probably old outdated tech just like the sr 71

Snoke?

Yeah, because the us abducted the german scientits inventing the rocket engine after the war?

good point, i forgot we took all the nazi scientist

The Horten brothers were a company that built gliders like this. When the Naz finally realized they were the most efficient design for flying large payloads the farthest and fastest and could fly low and flat and slip under the British radar, they worked BMW jet engines in them and thank fuck it was too late in the war, bc they were cheap as shit to make, required almost no metal, and would have been unstoppable. When the Americans rolled in, they took everything and the employees, shipped it all back to New Mexico and California, and continued their work in experimental aircraft.

This is peak aircraft design in Aesthetic terms. Pure airporn.

One of many gliders. Haul it behind a truck to get it up to speed and release.

These are by far the most beautiful planes anyone has ever built, and three of them hang in the National Air and Space Museum in Washington DC.

More Hortns...

Nah, it just flew too damn fast to hit.

This one is dead fucking sexy.

We are living in the past ;

Stationary in the present :

and moving into the future.

Imagine being the one of the first allied soldiers to hear this fucker flying overhead, having never heard a jet engine before.

youtube.com/watch?v=8zvmWyBje04&t=3m36s

We still haven't built one faster.

Imagine flying this mad motherfucker into a battle

Well we have, just not a manned aircraft.

the curves...

It's crazy to think, a tiny shop of a couple dozen guys could build these in the 1940's, out of thin plywood and glue, they flew easily and beautifully, and yet, in all the time since, no one has picked up where they left off, and everyone flies clunky shitboxes instead...

In the next second you will... and it’s gone.

Ahem.

The X15 politely disagrees.

That's even older!

X15 is really just a rocket though

That fucking thing.

The X-15 flew faster and higher than any other airplane. A peak altitude of 354,200 feet (67± miles) was reached by the X-15, and the X-15A-2 attained a speed of Mach 6.72 (4,534 mph) while testing a new ablative thermal protection material and a proposed design for a hypersonic ramjet. Various proposals were set forth for modifying the aircraft to accomplish new and even more radical tasks. At one point, NASA scientists planned to test a hydrogen-fueled supersonic combustion ramjet engine mounted on the X-15s lower vertical fin. A mock-up of this proposed installation was flight-tested on the X-15A-2. Other ideas included modifying the X-15 with a slender delta wing and using the aircraft as a booster for small satellite launch vehicles.

Not an air breather, though.

>really just a rocket
and an airplane is really just a propeller.

The X15 it is a spaceship. One with a rocket built in. And all the systems of an airplane built in too. And controlled by a pilot. In a space suit.

Yeah, it has a better engine.

The blackbird and the X15 are the pinnacle of aircraft. And if I recall, they were conceptually designed by the same kooky old senior designer.

You may as well include STS and Buran then.

>Implying rocket fuel burns without air.
ok mr wizard

youtube.com/watch?v=IiBsD-cafH8

No, because those are fat turds that failed to meet their ojbectives.

Interesting fact, the oil for lubricating the engine had to withstand such high temperature that it had the consistency of molasses. It had to be heated up before flight if they wanted the engine to run. Also, the engine used both ramjet and turbo fan technology to go from normal, subsonic speed to hih mach speed. The way to do this was the cone shape whcih would move forward and backward to get the ramjet to work at different speed and regime. The guys that designed this thing are pure geniuses

but they went fast

>this

>>Implying rocket fuel burns without air.
>ok mr wizard

what is an oxidizer

Skylon never

If you walk around the side of the blackbird, you'll notice some odd details, such as the cones also point downward slightly, and there's an odd saggy wing edge that looks like it's melted somewhat.

all these details to deal with the otherwise catastrophic pressure zones created at supersonic speeds, where conventional aerodynamics goes out the window.

Rockets doesn't take air from outside the rocket, dumbass, they carry their own oxygen. The X15 only has an exhaust, not an intake and exhaust like the SR-71.

a way to get oxygen into your fuel mix where it can become a gas again and burn

The future doesn't exist, there is only now.

thank you for that valuable insight genius

we will live in the future but we will never live in the future

So your definition of an aircraft is one that only takes air from the outside the hull to burn as fuel.

Ok then.

My definition is a manmade vehicle that combines a lift system, a propulsion system, and a control system, to achieve controlled flight.

sure but they went through tax dollars the fastest

No... my definition of an "air breather" is one that intakes AIR.

People don't realize that revolution that's coming, start reading about cryptocurrencies and your mind will be blown, the amount of innovation going on there is astonishing. You will start looking around in the street and will think that we're fucking cavemen compared to what we'll be in just a decade or so.

The sad thing about planes that beautiful is, they can't be built today. Curves are gorgeous and fly well, but military aircraft have to be stealth and curves are finished as far as that goes. Then, curves are fucking expensive to build, so they're pretty much out for civilian aircraft as well.

Not until a society of affluence arises where enough people can afford to fly and it makes sense to mass produce previously cost prohibitive designs, will things like this be built int the US. And then, we still won't build them until some other companies in Europe or Asia do, because liability insurance lawyers make all our decisions here and fuck us out of everything good, every fucking day, of our shitty little pathetic pissant lives

Trips of Truth checked
Beautiful summation

which rocket fuel does require to burn, aka breathes air.
oh but that's air from inside the rocket engine
because it didn't come from outside before that...

wow I like how you kinda went all robot9000 there at the end

God you're so right

>eptually designed by the same kooky old senior designer.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_Johnson_(engineer)

That's not the point. The point is, we're talking about the fastest airplanes. And the X15 has all the systems of an airplane, but because it doesn't use a fuckin wind-up starter and wooden prop, user makes an exception and says it doesn't count. user has a fucking hangup about the way an airplanes engine works. Apparently a jet engine is fine, even though that's only barely using propellers to compress air into an explosive pressurized fuel mixture for a fucking rocket blast out the back, and that's all cool, but as soon as you bottle the oxygen and add it to the fucking engine in a controlled way, which you have to at 4500mph or it compresses into a fucking plasma and rips your craft apart anyway, it's no longer part of the discussion because big paddles aren't pushing it through thick slow air.

user is a droopy old git.

That's the one. He is a god now.

At least a hundred thousand of the best aerospace engineers and designers in the last century designed and engineered those things. How does one guy take the credit?

by being the boss

bitch this picture is from like the 70s

>military aircraft have to be stealth and curves are finished as far as that goes

Wrong

Recommend this book for anyone interested in the Skunk Works.

Because 'that damned Swede can see air'.

I read that book
saw a documentary on Johnson too. Interesting dude.

Next I'm gonna do sex wit yo mama.

We are always living in the future, to everyone else who ever lived on this planet up til 1 moment ago.

my grandfather was on the design team at Pratt & Whitney tasked with developing the ramjet

>fucking krauts just building shit right off the floor
>no problem, we precisicely ground the concrete floor so flat a marble doesn't roll anywhere on it
>so all points on the aircraft can be accurately set and measured against an accurate baseline at any time
>we're basically building the thing in the air

f'n krauts

well, what's your excuse for being a degenerate loser wasting your life here with us?

all his work at Pratt & Whitney, for you to sit here jerking off to trannies.

We are not really 'living'. And this IS ONLY EVER the present.

The 50s and early 60s were the best fucking time to be an aerospace engineer.
Literally unlimited budget. You want to do something? Fucking whatever, the government would throw money at you.

It resulted in such crazy fucking shit. Some of it was practical. Some it was not.

Like the god damned mongoloid aircraft, the ThunderScreech.
What happens if you power a prop with a jet engine? How fast can you spin those blades?
The answer? So fast that the tips create a constant sonic boom that literally cause the ground crew to have seizures and vomit.

They actually built that retarded plane.
There were so many more crazier ideas that they didn't build, thank god.
Like Project PLUTO

Trips of titanium truth

"Roger control, descending to 750."

Nigga the Nazis were doing this shit in the 1940s. Most of the post war supersonic tech was based off the German research in supersonic/transonic aeronautical mathematicians and aircraft designers.

What a remarkably ignorant post.

Good job.

>In the comic books, a modified Blackbird was the aircraft of the X-Men.

The same one Cyclops crashed into the X-Mansion before as well

youtu.be/Mp_dXDdidmw

>flies a confederate flag
>causes everyone to have seizures and vomit

typical

i grow weed for a living and own dispensaries lol

Well, yes and no, plus, we already covered that shit.
Read the tred

Where do you see the Confederate flag?
Are you mistaking the USAF rondel for something else?

also my great grandfather Frederick B Rentschler founded Pratt & Whitney.. my grandfather met the boss's daughter and figured it would probably be a good idea to wife her up lol