{"id":72257,"date":"2024-06-24T21:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-06-24T11:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/what-makes-sr-72-darkstar-different-other-hypersonic-aircraft\/"},"modified":"2024-06-24T21:00:12","modified_gmt":"2024-06-24T11:00:12","slug":"what-makes-the-sr-72-darkstar-different-from-other-hypersonic-aircraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=72257","title":{"rendered":"What Makes The SR-72 Darkstar Different From Other Hypersonic Aircraft?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            Thanks to the boffo box office performance of &#8220;<em>Top Gun: Maverick<\/em>&#8221; two years ago, a super-secret spy plane that officially only existed in theory had already captured the imaginations of the American moviegoing public and, reportedly, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2022\/05\/chinas-was-freaked-out-over-the-sr-72-darkstar-in-top-gun-maverick\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" >freaked out Red China&#8217;s People&#8217;s Liberation Army (PLA) brass<\/a>. The plane in question is the SR-72, dubbed the &#8220;Darkstar&#8221; in the film, and nicknamed <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/lockheed-martin-sr-72-guide\/\">&#8220;SOB (Son of Blackbird)&#8221;<\/a> in many real-world outlets due to its supposed status as the heir apparent to the <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/why-was-the-lockheed-sr-71-blackbird-so-hard-to-fly\/\">Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird<\/a>, which remains the fastest air-breathing aircraft ever made 26 years after its official retirement.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The SR-72 captured the imaginations of the moviegoing public in 2022 in &#8220;Top Gun: Maverick.&#8221; But is the plane now for real? What do we know about it?<\/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":[396,1880,10820,627,412,6427],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-experimental-planes","category-hypersonictravel","category-lockheed-martin","category-military","category-sr-72"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72257","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=72257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72258,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72257\/revisions\/72258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}