How Was The Blackbirds Program Kept Secret

Play War Thunder for FREE on PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X|S. Click the link to download the game and get your exclusive bonus now. See you in the game! In the 1960s, secrecy, ingenuity and cooperation resulted in a series of airplanes that were invulnerable missiles, because they could outrun them. The best video on YouTube about the SR-71 and the rest of the Blackbird family, is #NotWhatYouThink #NWYT #longs Music: Are You Ready - Philip Ayers Lead - Farrell Wooten Family Badass - Rockin' For Decades Flightmode - Chris Shards This Is Not It - Philip Ayers Hiding in the Shadows - Experia Stellar Minds - DEX 1200 Cloak - Christoffer Moe Ditlevsen What We Discovered - Philip Ayers Solve It - Max Anson There Is No Sequel - Philip Ayers Torpedo - Tigerblood Jewel One Last Drama - Philip Ayers Sidelined - Dip Diet Full Cycle - Jon Sumner Footage: Select images/videos from Getty Images Shutterstock Enterprise Videoblocks Russian Ministry of Defense National Archives NASA US Department of Defense Note: “The appearance of U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) visual information does not imply or constitute DoD endorsement.“ REFERENCES: #8 JET 00:00 What's inside the box? 1:33 The Blackbird Family 3:36 Play War Thunder 4:58 Why were the Blackbirds built? 6:38 The Blackbird's performance 9:30 The Engineering Challenges of the Blackbirds 13:11 The Engines that powered the Blackbirds 15:19 Why did the SR-71 Blackbird leak fuel? 18:36 Blackbirds' missions and trolling other nations! 20:07 Why I couldn't pilot the Blackbird 21:43 Were any Blackbirds ever shot down? 22:51 What happened to the Blackbirds? 24:23 Play War Thunder