How Was The Blackbirds Program Kept Secret?

Published: 02 December 2022
on channel: Not What You Think
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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:
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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


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