SR-71 speed at ground level (Mach 3)

In this video, we take a look at what the speed of the SR-71 Blackbird would look like near the ground.

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[airplanemode]

Wanna see this video, but at the speed of light?! ⬇

[Brother_In_Christ]

Flying that low in NYC now days would activate everyone's PTSD

[haymaker]

Honestly what surprised me most about this simulation is that it feels slower than my mind expected. I thought Manhattan would whizz past so fast that you would hardly even get a chance to look at it. I guess you would literally have to be at street level, altitude 1 meter, before it would feel so disorienting as that.

[CandyVanMan]

0:32 yo careful around those towers, you don’t want something to happen to them

[larsonkaas]

Bro the twin towers where stil standing in this map

[kenxtachi]

0:32 😮‍💨 it almost happened all over again

[flarry]

i respect you. it took a lot of will to fly through newyork without hitting any buildings

[khabbad]

The SR71 is simply said to cruise at over mach3. It has been mentioned the aircraft was in fact much faster than that. Incredible

[peanut-junder]

Those from ground shots were awesome. At first I was like I thought it would look faster but then those shots came and I was like 😮

[nuniq]

Fun Fact: The final flight of the SR-71 from Los Angeles to Washington D.C. was done in under an 1hr, 4mins, 20secs with an average speed of 2, 124mph. That is 4 hours less than the average time to arrival from a commercial plane to get to either destination.

[SenhorDoutorProfessorPatrick]

A simulation with the Voyager spacecraft would be cool

[cristianruiz]

0:28 World Trade Center ?
What about the supersonic shock wave?

[videowilliams]

Wow, that Sydney's eerily realistic from 0:59! I expected the speed to look more hectic but in fact it looks quite graceful.

[shazam]

The SR-71. In the late 70's I was with a group that went to Beal AFB to watch the Black Bird take off. Completely insane that was. It began to increase throttle but fuel started flowing out the rear engine nozels. That is when the Pilot in one fast move throttled completely down and then full throttle, OMG it exploded with sound, and the fireballs that happened it all was the loudest roar and such a vibration thru your body it stung a bit. We were pretty close to the runway. After take off it immediately went vertical and quickly disappeared. The Militay guy then said it is now leveling off at 30, 00 feet maybe 5 minutes and meeting a tanker waiting to refill it with fuel. He said that usually, the SR-71 won't pull vertically right when it is has brought in the landing gear but this maneuver going vertical and picking up speed so quickly was a rare sight to behold and feel. And a couple years later on a county road going down to Beal AFB an SR-71 was in its glide slope to land but from this direction, it was just below the ridge line on both sides of a small valley. When I saw it I was going toward Beal AFB and to my right there it was I immediately slowed down stuck my arm out the window and began franticly waving well the Pilot saw me and waved back! That experience seared into my brain and I feel very fortunate to have watched a full throttle take off and vertical ascent then a low fly and the wave exchange at the top part of the valley, we were at the same level, I was on the ridge and he was just opposite me. He freaking waved back. Oh goodness.

[hyuweh]

I see 2 towers and I hate what I am thinking.

[thego]

yes!! i've been wanting to find a video like this for a while

[Synystr]

Someone modded in the twin towers in a flight sim game...

That puts you on a list.

[someguy]

Still a monster that hold speed records to this day.

It will always be my dream plane.

[AussieBall-Animations]

This is such good content
+1 sub from Sydney, Australia:)

[shanegibson]

*casually shatters every window in a kilometer wide swath of new york*