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All that aside the SR-71 spyplane is a very impressive machine
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The lifting body line is different from the wing's line this angle gives extra lift the lifting body needs to keep the nose up. This as side gives the SR-71 a narrow speed to altitude flight corridor. This is nothing new the U-2 had the same kind of flight corridor at high altitude and high speed. Higher speeds require the lifting body line and the wing line.
Bob L. Petersen
The lifting body line is different from the wing's line this angle gives extra lift the lifting body needs to keep the nose up. This as side gives the SR-71 a narrow speed to altitude flight corridor. This is nothing new the U-2 had the same kind of flight corridor at high altitude and high speed. Higher speeds require the lifting body line and the wing line.
Bob L. Petersen
Stats On Supersonic Sr-71 & Hypersonic X-15
Length Width Height Weight Wing Area
| lENTGH WIDTH HEIGHT WEIGHT WING AREA
| X-15 Rocket Plane
| SR-71 Spyplane
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| Length
| 50 ft 6 in
| 107 ft
| | Width
| 22 ft 3 in
| 55 ft 7 in
| | Total Horizontal Area
| 11 ft 7 in
| 18 ft 6 in
| | Weight Loaded
| 33000 lbs
| 140000 lbs
| | Weight Empty
| ^12000 lbs
| 55000 lbs
| | Total Horizontal Area
| 452 sq ft
| 2080 sq ft
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YF-12s lined up in a row
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Everybody, do you remember how we park? Sr-71
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Bob L. Petersen
My favorite Movie Fly Over At Dyden It was shot on my favorite day February 15 and this one most important of all.
Movies of the X-15 and SR-71 Dryden Air Force Base and NASA.
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