{"id":81474,"date":"2024-07-07T08:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-07-06T22:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/sr-71-vs-sr-72-darkstar-look-design-hurdles\/"},"modified":"2024-07-07T08:00:12","modified_gmt":"2024-07-06T22:00:12","slug":"sr-71-vs-sr-72-darkstar-a-look-at-the-design-hurdles-for-the-son-of-blackbird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=81474","title":{"rendered":"SR-71 Vs SR-72 Darkstar: A Look At The Design Hurdles For The Son Of Blackbird"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    One good SR-72 Darkstar AKA &#8220;SOB&#8221; (as in &#8220;Son of Blackbird,&#8221; i.e. the SR-71 Blackbird, not the profane kind of &#8220;Son of&#8230;&#8221;) deserves a timely follow-up. As I noted in my previous Simple Flying article on this still-hypothetical (at least officially) futuristic warbird, it not only captured the imagination of the Western moviegoing public but concurrently freaked out the top brass of Red China&#8217;s People&#8217;s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) via its fictitiously embellished appearance in the 2022 box office blockbuster &#8220;<em>Top Gun: Maverick<\/em>.&#8221;    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The SR-72 &#8220;SOB&#8221; sounds great in theory (and looks great in the movies). So what are the hurdles keeping it from becoming a reality?<\/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":[396,1880,5214,627,412,11183,9678,6427,8822,11273],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-experimental-planes","category-hypersonic","category-lockheed-martin","category-military","category-pratt-whitney-engines","category-skunk","category-sr-72","category-top-gun-maverick","category-turbo-jet"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81474","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=81474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81475,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81474\/revisions\/81475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}