there's never been an actual successor. aurora was the code name for the b-2 project and the media ran with thinking it was a spy plane 35 years ago. somehow the myth has never gone away. ben rich didn't think a hypersonic manned plane was possible 15 years ago, and he was one of the principle designers of the sr-71. materials science/propulsion probably has to advance a big more before it's possible.
>ben rich didn't think a hypersonic manned plane was possible 15 years ago, and he was one of the principle designers of the sr-71
Which sounds odd to me because my grandad was working on projects for Rockwell and Boeing back in the 80's which were hypersonic manned aircraft. They had all the brochures at family days. I'm not sure how far those projects got, but all the literature was there. They were talking about going around the world in a matter of minutes with the longest parts of the fight being takeoff and landing.
yeah but that was also during the Reagan admin where they were throwing money at pie-in-the-sky projects and his advisors weren't on the money at what was feasible with current tech. they did preliminary feasibility studies and designs but couldn't work out a lot of the problems according to the the guys in the know. who knows they could have made it work and maybe even made some prototypes but i have my doubts.
ben rich actually phoned the chief technical advisor for reagan when he put the proposal out and informed him that they were off their rockers if they thought it was currently possible. even the sr-71's hurdles would be tough to overcome today, but much more doable with current manufacturing techniques, electronics, propulsion, and materials.
to expand on that, at mach 10 the leading edges of the vehicle experience temps above 3600degrees. you'd be hard pressed just to create an novel AC system for the wienerpit that wouldn't literally boil the pilot alive inside after a few minutes.
using fragile ablative materials for short reentries. AC systems that use water-steam transfer cooling to keep the capsule/wienerpit cool. not flying for hours on end at similar temperatures. the sr-71 dumped excess heat into the fuel using a heat exchanger. sustained flights at temperatures exceeding mach 10 would take a system an order of magnitude better.
not saying it's a deal-breaking problem but a significant hurdle.
It was a one off prototype, the tic-tac isn't even the latest and greatest, The current stuff is operating in mirrored dimensions to our own and aren't ever visible
no because it can hover using technology that is unknown to the civilian/commercial world
by declassifying it, they have to declassify its propulsion system... which is not going to happen willingly.
Its called the darkstar though
Literally what the African football team calls my butthole.
I’m trans btw
cute and funny
there's never been an actual successor. aurora was the code name for the b-2 project and the media ran with thinking it was a spy plane 35 years ago. somehow the myth has never gone away. ben rich didn't think a hypersonic manned plane was possible 15 years ago, and he was one of the principle designers of the sr-71. materials science/propulsion probably has to advance a big more before it's possible.
>ben rich didn't think a hypersonic manned plane was possible 15 years ago, and he was one of the principle designers of the sr-71
Which sounds odd to me because my grandad was working on projects for Rockwell and Boeing back in the 80's which were hypersonic manned aircraft. They had all the brochures at family days. I'm not sure how far those projects got, but all the literature was there. They were talking about going around the world in a matter of minutes with the longest parts of the fight being takeoff and landing.
yeah but that was also during the Reagan admin where they were throwing money at pie-in-the-sky projects and his advisors weren't on the money at what was feasible with current tech. they did preliminary feasibility studies and designs but couldn't work out a lot of the problems according to the the guys in the know. who knows they could have made it work and maybe even made some prototypes but i have my doubts.
ben rich actually phoned the chief technical advisor for reagan when he put the proposal out and informed him that they were off their rockers if they thought it was currently possible. even the sr-71's hurdles would be tough to overcome today, but much more doable with current manufacturing techniques, electronics, propulsion, and materials.
to expand on that, at mach 10 the leading edges of the vehicle experience temps above 3600degrees. you'd be hard pressed just to create an novel AC system for the wienerpit that wouldn't literally boil the pilot alive inside after a few minutes.
Anon, every space capsule and the Shuttle gets back into orbit at mach 25 without boiling the crews
*back into the atmosphere
using fragile ablative materials for short reentries. AC systems that use water-steam transfer cooling to keep the capsule/wienerpit cool. not flying for hours on end at similar temperatures. the sr-71 dumped excess heat into the fuel using a heat exchanger. sustained flights at temperatures exceeding mach 10 would take a system an order of magnitude better.
not saying it's a deal-breaking problem but a significant hurdle.
They had all kinds of crazy concepts that never made it through feasibility studies but would never work. See any HOTOL spaceplane design
>vertical stabs
It was a one off prototype, the tic-tac isn't even the latest and greatest, The current stuff is operating in mirrored dimensions to our own and aren't ever visible
Nope
no because it can hover using technology that is unknown to the civilian/commercial world
by declassifying it, they have to declassify its propulsion system... which is not going to happen willingly.
Is that pic real???