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#Santa Claus#Flying Reindeer#Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird#Lockheed SR-71#SR-71 Blackbird#SR-71#Blackbird#Habu#Strategic Reconnaissance Aircraft#Reconnaissance Aircraft#Spyplane#Aircraft#artwork#comic#meme#Christmas#December#my post
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UK 1985
#UK1985#GILSOFT#CREATIVE#ADVENTURE#SPECTRUM#C64#THE GOLD COLLECTION#THE QUILL#MINDBENDER#AFRICA GARDENS#SPYPLANE#BARSAC#DIAMOND TRAIL#MAGIC CASTLE#DEVIL'S ISLAND
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Aurora is widely rumored 1980's aircraft supposedly based on alien technology. Now locked away...maybe more myth than fact.
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#anime#ufos#aliens#scifi#extraterrestrials#animation#ancient aliens#comic books#fantasy#manga#aurora#aircraft#lockheed#spyplane
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SR-71 Shirt Vintage Cold War SR71 Air Force
SR-71 Shirt Vintage Cold War SR71 Air Force Pilot Tee
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#sr71 #blackbird #cia #usaf
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Bobby Doherty
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"A huge component of “personal style” is not merely the ability to identify sick pieces you love but the ability to identify which of those pieces are actually right for your particular individual-a** gestalt. And the only way to figure out why a particular garment you find objectively dope is / isn’t clicking is to “be a good and patient listener,” attuned to the ongoing 3-way conversation between your body, your vibes & garments …"
- Blackbird Spyplane
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Too many places are STERILE and TORCHED — let’s make them COOL and FUNKY
In praise of Un-Grammable Hang Zones (U.G.H.Z.)
Right now, in year ~15 of the fetish for “clean lines” and “understated elegance,” I wanna hang for hours in a FRUMPY, MISSHAPEN, INVITINGLY INELEGANT place like Jump’N Java instead, during which time I would never even think to take out my phone and let the feed know I was there because, despite being packed with vibey curios, the place is way too much of a CHAOTIC VISUAL HODGEPODGE to “work” in the form of an iPhone pic on social media …
There is one major flaw with U.G.H.Z — the food and drinks on offer typically range from passable to abysmal !
Your clothes are haunted by beautiful ghosts
3. Relatedly, clothes can be haunted by ghosts — in a way that is not spooky but tight — and rocking them can be séance-like. Memories of your past selves get woven into the threads of a favorite t-shirt you wore throughout college or a rainshell you wore in the backcountry. The spectral afterglow of other people’s lives lingers in secondhand pieces, too, which is why it feels so transportive when you buy, e.g., a secondhand jacket and find an old plane ticket or handwritten shopping list or letter tucked in the pocket. The pockets can be empty, too, and the s**t can still be full of ghosts.
Cool clothes should have credit sequences
The pleasures of "C.R.E.D.I.T.S. Mindset" Collaboration Respecters Enjoy Deeper Immersion in the Tightest S**t !! The answer to 3. is illustrated nowhere better than the way N*tflix (and other streaming platforms) make it actively hard to NOT skip end credits these days… They play a few pro forma seconds, then suddenly the window minimizes and the algorithm tries to serve you up some other st INSTANTLY, on autoplay...
Just appreciating the visual representation, as name after name goes by, of the fact that MAD PEOPLE besides the director, writer & actors worked to make the thing I just watched — a collectivist counterbalance to romantic yet pernicious myths of INDIVIDUALIST GENIUS that can make us focus disproportionately on “numero uno” at the expense of fellowship & communitarian obligations! (This also manifests in a cool way when you see a filmmaker’s “Thank Yous” and get a little glimpse of the “social architecture” of a film’s making, like, “Dmn I didn’t know Joanna Hogg was homies with Martin Scorsese, that’s tight.”)
... Reading mad fashion magazines — which Erin has been doing since she was a COOL KID conducting adolescent jawn-recon — and whipping yr eye back and forth between the pics and the GUTTER CREDITS, where the info on designers, models, stylists, photographers, etc. is tucked. C.R.E.D.I.T.S. Mindset can be seen in opposition to marketing — because shining a light on otherwise unacknowledged labor can help reveal endemic exploitation (or, say, wildly inflated pricing). But it can abet marketing, too, for worse or better, whether via mockable clichés (“tonight’s chicken was raised 22 miles north of here by a farmer named Carol whose grain-free feed consists of …”) or by explaining and justifying something’s relatively high price tag by letting you know how, e.g., a pricey artisan jawn’s making was materially different from that of a cheap s*tty mass-market jawn.
By “blessed uninterrupted closed system” what we mean is that:
Nothing entered the room that wasn’t already there (e.g., no hot takes, no tweets, no IG stories, no “streaming content”) and
Nothing went out (no data for advertisers to vacuum up, no fuel for the algorithm to ingest, no performed versions of ourselves for the timeline to behold.) This was like that baller ROOM OF ONE’S OWN s*t Virginia Woolf was talking about, baby… And g-d dmn, it felt great!!
Is Ssense hurting the cool-clothes ecosystem? https://www.blackbirdspyplane.com/p/is-ssense-hurting-the-cool-clothes-ecosystem
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US Aircraft Carrier Battles Houthi Attacks in Yemen: A High-Stakes Game of Hide and Seek
#advancedtechnology #attacksonships #CommanderTimothyKuehhas #diplomaticefforts. #Drones #geopoliticaldynamics #hideandseek #Houthiforces #IranianbackedHouthis #jointtrainingexercises #MiddleEast #oiltankers #Saudiledcoalition #shippinglanes #smallboats #spyplanes #stabilityandsecurity #Tehran #tensions #unmannedaerialvehiclesUAVs #USaircraftcarrier #UScommitment #usmilitary #USSNimitz #Washington #Yemen #Yemenconflict
#Politics#advancedtechnology#attacksonships#CommanderTimothyKuehhas#diplomaticefforts.#Drones#geopoliticaldynamics#hideandseek#Houthiforces#IranianbackedHouthis#jointtrainingexercises#MiddleEast#oiltankers#Saudiledcoalition#shippinglanes#smallboats#spyplanes#stabilityandsecurity#Tehran#tensions#unmannedaerialvehiclesUAVs#USaircraftcarrier#UScommitment#usmilitary#USSNimitz#Washington#Yemen#Yemenconflict
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1960 – U-2 incident
Francis Gary Powers, in a Lockheed U-2 spyplane, is shot down over the Sverdlovsk Oblast, Soviet Union, sparking a diplomatic crisis.
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Blackbirds in formation, YF-12A and SR-71, with Lockheed F-104 Starfighter.
Date: 1975
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SR-71 “Ichi-Ban” – Buried in the Deepest Ocean on Earth
Throughout the 60s, Lockheed Skunk Works were building some incredible aircraft – the A-12 Oxcart and SR-71 were and still are some of the fastest vehicles ever made. These technical achievements were incredible. Before home computing and the internet, there were aircraft capable of more than 2,000 mph.
But, being on the bleeding edge of technology comes with risks. Either through lack of understanding or difficulty in manufacturing parts to tight enough tolerances, accidents can and will happen. This was to be the unfortunate fate of the SR-71 known as “Ichi-Ban”.
The Lockheed SR-71, known as the ‘Habu’.
SR-71 #61-17974 was based at Kadena AFB, Okinawa, Japan and made quite the scene for the locals who lived close by.
Read More: Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird – The Plane Designed to Leak
The unusual aircraft drew a lot of attention thanks to the unusual shape and jet black paintwork. The SR-71 became known as the ‘Habu’ locally, thanks to its resemblance to the Habu Pit Viper.
The Habu Viper.
The shape of the Habu Viper’s head has a strong resemblance to the SR-71.
As these aircraft were spyplanes, pilots did not become aces in the traditional sense, but with every mission flown a Habu was painted onto the side of the Blackbird. Once amassing 5 missions complete the crew would be considered an ace.
#61-17974 had the most operational missions complete and a large Habu was painted on the tail of the aircraft as a mark of respect. The snake was wrapped around a red ‘1’ and in the local language, ‘number one’ translated to ‘Ichi-Ban’.
The SR-71 known as "Ichi-Ban".
In April of 1989, just like many missions flown before, Pilot Lt. Col Dan House took Ichi-Ban into the skies above Kadena and everything seemed normal.
Nothing was reported by House or by his RSO Blair Bozek that would indicate any issue.
That was until House pushed the throttles on the pair of J-58 engines to maximum power. As Ichi-Ban hit Mach 3.0 the bearing in the left-hand compressor failed and caused the immediate destruction of the engine whilst travelling at over 2,000 mph.
The Wreckage of SR-71 "Ichi-Ban".
The damage from hitting the water was immense.
As the J-58 exploded, shrapnel was sent flying damaging the SR-71 and most critically severing hydraulic lines. Even the best and most experienced pilots ever would not be able to save such a badly damaged plane.
House did not give up, incredibly aware that the death of his RSO and himself was imminent, he managed to steer the Blackbird into a shallow descent and decelerate as quickly as possible.
Ejecting from aircraft is not a pleasant experience for anyone involved and doing it at Mach 3 would have been suicide.
The US could not let the wreckage fall into the hands of the Chinese government.
It was extremely important to recover the wreckage as the technology was highly classified.
However, extreme skill combined with a lot of luck meant that the wounded aircraft found itself below 10,000 at low enough speed for both House and Bozek to safely eject. They landed in the sea where some local fishermen came to their rescue.
Ichi-Ban continued going down and eventually smashed into the waters of the South China Sea.
Despite the age of the SR-71, the US could not let the wreckage be recovered by the Chinese. It was too technically advanced. It was not long before the wreckage had been salvaged and transported back to the Kadena Air Force base.
The tail of Ichi-Ban.
There were several options of what they could do with the wreckage of Ichi-Ban: scrap the aircraft and sell the metal to the highest bidder in Okinawa, send it back to the US for disposal, or bury it.
Typically the fastest and least expensive option was chosen.
Read More: The F-22 Raptor – The Fighter of the Future
But, the story does not end there – the Pacific Air Force would not permit burial of the aircraft at Kadena because facilities were constantly under construction for new tenants. Meaning that it may be a possibility that it would need to be dug up and moved somewhere else.
The SR-71 was an important aircraft to many.
Crews were very fond of the SR-71. Fitting that a full military honours burial was done to see her off.
Burial at sea seemed the most fitting option but required help from the US Navy. After all of the bureaucracy was settled the SR-71 #61-17974 was transferred to a waiting vessel.
Her remains were taken out to sea on Christmas Eve 1989 and buried with full military honours. Pushed off the side of the vessel, Ichi-Ban sank 25,597 feet into the ocean where she lies at the bottom of the Mariana Trench.
Are there any SR-71 still flying?
Though the SR-71 still holds the record for the highest altitude in horizontal flight, it’s no longer in use. In fact, Clarence “Kelly” Johnson designed this aircraft for Lockheed with the latest technology of the time. The plane’s pilots even required special suits to survive the extreme conditions the planes created. However, the US retired the planes in 1989 for political reasons and would only have brief reinstatement during the 1990s, after which the US permanently retired them.
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I know you said that you aren't the pinnacle of military knowledge that people think you are but know a damsite more than I do about the US military than I do, so I have a question. Do you have any idea how long the Darkstar project would've been going on for in canon? It can't have been a few months but I also don't know if it would be years and years? I know Mav has an award for being a test pilot that I think is dated 2007 (I may have imagined that) but that doesn't mean the Darkstar project was going on for over ten years? I think the F-18A took 8 years from testing to being approved, so it can't be far off. Just wanted your opinion. Thanks :-)
awright here’s my opinion (not an expert)
the darkstar is canonically a Lockheed Martin “skunk works” (super duper secret) surveillance and reconnaissance (SR) spyplane, as evidenced by the skunk works logo on the vertical stabilizer (left is darkstar, right is me with the SW logo on the SR-71 blackbird at the udvar-hazy museum this summer).
we can look to see how long other SW projects have taken to develop in the past. the SR-71, for instance, was first suggested as an “undetectable spyplane” idea in 1957. the lockheed A-12 oxcart, which would provide the framework for the SR-71, had its first flight in 1962, five years later. the finished SR-71 was introduced into USAF and CIA service in 1966. so a 9-year development for the fastest-ever air-breathing jet, with 4-ish of those years being flight testing (ish because the A-12 had to be heavily adapted into the SR-71 which had its first flight in 1964).
Lockheed’s been teasing its blackbird successor, the unmanned aerial vehicle the SR-72 “son of blackbird,” on its socials recently. i saw someone say: “soft-launching its new death machine like an instagram influencer with a new boyfriend”
leading many to believe this is what happened
note however that the SR-72 son of blackbird is an UNMANNED aerial vehicle (UAV) which is why in my fic I specifically said this
note also that most of aircraft development is just that—development. Flight testing (i.e. where mav would get hands-on involved) doesn’t come until very very late in the development process. For the plot of my fic’s sake I had mav go out to NAWS china lake in 2003, but in TGM during the Hard Deck scene Penny says something to the effect of “you got sent out to the desert three years ago for pissing off that other admiral” and mav goes “that was three years ago? 😀” (cute!) so that’s the longest mav could’ve canonically been involved with the darkstar project. (For my own purposes i made it like a year, for those two sections of the story to neatly flow into each other—from 2015ish to 2016. I know TGM takes place in 2020 [i know but idfc] Maybe LockMart has had this tech [probably not high hypersonic like in the movie] for that long anyway and it’s just been so heavily classified that we didn’t know about it till very recently. Definitely possible.)
#i took a picture of the A-12 oxcart at the intrepid museum in NYC but it’s not a selfie so not posting it#i saw it and i was like ‘uh you’re not supposed to just be able to see these’#they have the enterprise space shuttle too it was just fucking insane#military aviation#sr-72#pete maverick mitchell#top gun maverick#edts notes#thank you for the ask! really not an expert but talking about planes is fun for me#the hypersonic race is very interesting… Russia famously has its hypersonic kinzhal missiles and i think CN has them too#but the U.S. has never openly done hypersonics which is why IMO it would be crazy to start off with a manned jet like in TGM#and it’s not clear how useful or effective hypersonic missiles actually are in warfare#* i think I mean specifically air breathing jet hypersonics#obviously icbms and rockets (which fly at hypersonic speeds) are different
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