The SR-71 was designed in the early 1960s and it was the first aircraft to be made primarily from titanium* so they didn't have much knowledge of how to work with that material (yet) and even though the fuel system was very advanced for its time, ...
Due to the great temperature changes in flight, the fuselage panels did not fit perfectly on the ground and were essentially loose. Proper alignment was only achieved when the airframe warmed up due to the air resistance at high speeds, causing the airframe to expand several inches. Because of this, and the lack of a fuel sealing system that could handle the extreme temperatures, the aircraft would leak its JP-7 jet fuel onto the runway before it took off. The aircraft would quickly make a short sprint, meant to warm up the airframe, and was then air-to-air refueled before departing on its mission. Cooling was carried out by cycling fuel behind the titanium surfaces at the front of the wings (chines). Nonetheless, once the plane landed no one could approach it for some time as its canopy was still hotter than 300 °C
This kind of shit happens when your plane flies at Mach 3 as a matter of course. fucking cool huh?
I fucking love the blackbird. Its my favouritist plane of all time.Looks like ass on the ground, but I always thought it looked gloriously beautiful in the air.
You know what you should do today 42? Skip out on anything you have to do today, show up at the Hooters Inner Harbor for lunch, keep drinking Yeunglings, then go to the O's game today at 3, all drunk and shirtless and yelling obscenities. Then after the game, go to the Hustler Club (I have a bouncer friend, I think working tonite) and waste dollars on sexual frustration.
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I dunno about that.
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I can't grab hold of a real otter's yoke and pull it's throttle to make it go
The most I could hope for is to hop on it's back and make engine sounds
but mine actually has weapons. what you have there is an extra fancy passenger jet
It needs to go fast just to hold its fuel in.
Bad ass.
C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER!
Wait... what?
Jordan of Elienor, Human Shaman
I dig your beard.
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Thank you, Bogey. I was literally tapping my feet, waiting for someone to bring the awesome.
The SR-71 was designed in the early 1960s and it was the first aircraft to be made primarily from titanium* so they didn't have much knowledge of how to work with that material (yet) and even though the fuel system was very advanced for its time, ...
This kind of shit happens when your plane flies at Mach 3 as a matter of course. fucking cool huh?
WHAT YOU SAY !!
But in the air...
That movie was a god awful abortion.
Ladies and gentlemen, award this man an intardnet! End thread! See you tomorrow!
Nah. We don't really give awards around here.
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We only have surprise buttsex. Lets give him some of that, but only when he's not expecting it.
I'm really not all that into anal.
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Strangle a Ranaedos.
Where the fuck is butters?
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I may not be into anal, but I'm all in for some erotic asphyxiation play.
edit: I love your sig, Dublo
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Christ so angry
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you should do it on a weekend and work it around my schedule
"If you're going to play tiddly winks, play it with man hole covers."
- John McCallum
Useless emo girl-shit that I should not even be angry about. But the fact that I AM angy about it just makes me more ANGRY!
fuck shit face hell damnit whore
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