Literally TRANSCRIPTS of an SR-71 Pilot from the video
Blackbird: The Fastest Spy Plane (Extended Cut) - SR-71@ 12:53. www youtube com /watch?v=mHjhgeyhuKk
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EXACT TIMES of statements (FORMER SR-71 PILOT) written VERBATIM, below:
To include a phrase analogous to "J58s PULLED him through the air more than the turbines pushed!".
Did he just know how to fly it and not understand the engine's physics for thrust..?
The video / talk is good irrespective this one snippet. Skeptical of my claim? exact times & verbatic text below.
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Blackbird: The Fastest Spy Plane (Extended Cut) - SR-71
1. @ 12:53: And then it reenters the engine there in the afterburner section where it gets reburnt and that equates for the ramjet cycle which means that at Mach 3 and above, 80% of my power was basically a ramjet, which meant that that engine and the inlet system associated with it was actually pulling us through the air as opposed to the engine pushing us through the air. So you save a lot of fuel by doing that.
2. @ 42:48 Also, look at the precision of it's astro-inertial nav: traveling at 36-miles a minute! They could GUARANTEE staying within a ± 100 yard track..!?
3. Blackbird: The Fastest Spy Plane (Extended Cut) - SR-71
@ 29:04 We had an astro-inertial navigation system onboard. It tracked three stars. Not unlike Star Trek, we had a stardate. We put a stardate in the airplane and the airplane system would know what stars to track and once it saw the sky, it would lock on to three stars. (Per 42:48 ...going 36 miles a minute) We promised the president, because of the sensitivity to our missions, that we would never be more than 300 feet now, 300 feet off the centerline of the mission track we were supposed to fly, and that astro-inertial tracker would keep us there.
...The reason we did that is like our flights along the Soviet and Chinese border. Back in those days, I don't know what they do now but in those days, the Soviets declared supremacy out to 15 miles that they owned out there. We said we gave them out the three miles, international law. So our missions were at the three-mile point along the borders.