{"id":134675,"date":"2024-09-29T21:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-09-29T11:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/sr-71-blackbird-thermal-management-engineering-extreme-speed\/"},"modified":"2024-09-29T21:00:12","modified_gmt":"2024-09-29T11:00:12","slug":"the-usaf-sr-71-blackbirds-thermal-management-engineering-for-extreme-speeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=134675","title":{"rendered":"The USAF SR-71 Blackbirds Thermal Management: Engineering for Extreme Speeds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>26 years after its retirement from<a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/us-air-force-reorganizing-wings\/\" > the US Air Force<\/a> and 25 years after its retirement from the <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/5-ways-nasa-programs-influenced-us-military-aircraft-design\/\" >National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)<\/a>, the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird (unofficially nicknamed the &#8220;<em>Habu<\/em>&#8221; for a species of venomous pit viper endemic to the Ryukyu Islands of Japan) is still the fastest air-breathing aircraft ever made, with a top recorded speed of Mach 3.56 (2,731.478 mph; 4,395.887 km\/h; 2373.59 kn).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The SR-71&#8217;s world record speeds generated extremely high temperatures, but specialized engineering made it possible to stand the heat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,408,1624,412,202,1626,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-history","category-lockheed","category-military","category-nasa","category-sr-71","category-united-states-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134676,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134675\/revisions\/134676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}