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11. It’s tyres were specially designed for the SR-71. Their material was made of aluminium powder which was impregnated to reject heat. This additive gave its unique appearance of silver coloration.

12. Even though it leaked fuel, the fuel had such a high flash point that it would not ignite even if it was hit with fire.

13. To work on the plane as a crew member, you needed to be between the ages of 25 and 40, be married and be“emotionally stable.”

14. The plane was covered in over 60 pounds of black paint because the black helped cool down the plane by up to 86 degrees. Traveling at over Mach 3, the plane could hit as high as 1,000 degrees without the black paint dissipating the heat.

15. There were only 32 Blackbirds ever built. One of the pilots, test pilot Bob Gilliland, is photographed here.

16.” It’s astonishing-you’re above the haze, and in the atmosphere-how deep into space you can see from up there. There’s all this meteor activity you never see on the ground”. A lot of stuff’s going on.

17. “They were all in small hangars, all closed. We unlocked the back doors, turned on the lights, and I thought ‘Oh lord, there’s a spaceship.’

18 “In that first six months of training, they had to break all your habits you had from your first ten years of flying. It’s just different, and you can’t react to things that would normally happen the way you would in other planes. It was a vector, not a line.”
-Rick McCrary

19. “All other planes have either a three minute limit, or five minute limit on that, but you’d be going at full afterburner for an hour, hour and a half”.
-Rick McCrary

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