The makers of Transformers are to blame

[centuryseries]

For me digging her out again!

Climb out from Kadena

Beginning the accel to Mach 1

Post Dipsy Doodle transitioning through Mach 1 and pulling into a supersonic climb

Like a homesick angel

Max Bank angle of 45 degrees

Through the periscope in the pilots canopy

Moment of serenity at 85,000 feet and Mach 3.23

Banking towards home

Descending through 14,000 feet and slowing to 300 knots

 

[harleyman]

Thats a sweet bird.....

 

[blazefox2]

where did you get that blackbird may i ask? i had the alphasim freeware one but lets face it it sucks!

 

[centuryseries]

where did you get that blackbird may i ask? i had the alphasim freeware one but lets face it it sucks!

Its the current AlphaSim payware version native to FSX.

If you buy it make sure you read the manual!! :ernae:

It's a toughie for the uninitiated!

 

[blazefox2]

Its the current AlphaSim payware version native to FSX.

If you buy it make sure you read the manual!! :ernae:

It's a toughie for the uninitiated!

ok il have to check it out thanks for the pointer lol off to alphasim!

 

[Lionheart]

Beauty!!!!

Very nice..

I hear it is very hard to fly at first. You have to get through Mach(s) with a technique, and at extreme altitude, I believe you are close to high speed stall and stall, they are close together up there... Too fast and you stall, too slow and you stall... Ultra thin air, hurrendous speeds.

Trully a spacecraft.



Bill

 

[kilo delta]

Beauty!!!!

Very nice..

I hear it is very hard to fly at first. You have to get through Mach(s) with a technique, and at extreme altitude, I believe you are close to high speed stall and stall, they are close together up there... Too fast and you stall, too slow and you stall... Ultra thin air, hurrendous speeds.

Trully a spacecraft.



Bill

True, Bill....and to consider that it's a 1950's design :isadizzy:. Makes you wonder just what black aircraft "They" have flying today...

 

[centuryseries]

Beauty!!!!

Very nice..

I hear it is very hard to fly at first.

Thanks, it's often described as threading the needle :ernae: Tough to master without reading the manual thats included thats for certain. The periscope view above was added to my aircraft courtesy of Wilycoyote

Kilo Delta, I agree! Begs the question when they will announce some more!

It's interesting comparing high altitude in FSX to real life imagery, saw this on BBC4 the other day:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJoMDq4AyLc

A little tribute to MJ:

 

[peter12213]

Its crazy this is such a strange aircraft for me, I think its gorgeous really love it on paper but just don't have the patience to fly it properly, I mean low and quite fast is what I prefer mach 2 bout my limit tho at 30 odd thousand lol Really this thing just hates that and i wouldn't insult mine or your intellegence by trying it so I just stay away she needs to be above 70' at least, is that hifi x graphics ya using?

 

[tigisfat]

My favorite screenshot ever is of your masterpiece:

 

[wilycoyote4]

Its crazy this is such a strange aircraft for me, I think its gorgeous really love it on paper but just don't have the patience to fly it properly, I mean low and quite fast is what I prefer mach 2 bout my limit tho at 30 odd thousand lol Really this thing just hates that and i wouldn't insult mine or your intellegence by trying it so I just stay away she needs to be above 70' at least, is that hifi x graphics ya using?

It's a challenge, as a simulation in FSX, or FS9, and was in reality. However, it is really about cruising so high, in the thin air near the edge the atmosphere, and navigation so you don't get lost, as the saying goes. Not verymany flight sim hobbyists know what the flight sim world looks like up so high, whether at 68,000 feet in a U-2S, or at 85,000 feet (or a bit higher) at over 2,000 mph, even over 2,200 mph. FSX is superior for this simulation of altitude. Those who enjoy it are touching unique aviation history.

Great screeny, tig, :USA-flag::ernae:

 

[centuryseries]

I'd forgotten quite what a challenge it is to get a heavy bird up high and fast, I need to get some AI tankers working I'm bored of single climb from take-off and descents straight to landing. What do peole use these days to get themselves some AI company in FSX? I have some tankers, just don't know what software is the standard to make them fly where I want.

The clouds are from Flight Enviroment X. The rest is default FSX on an ancient P4 3Ghz with 2Gb RAM and a GeForce 6800GT :ernae:

I love that screenshot too Tig

Its crazy this is such a strange aircraft for me, I think its gorgeous really love it on paper but just don't have the patience to fly it properly

What we aimed for was to produce the aircraft in such a way that it flies with the same profile that the real one did, we didn't want to produce an SR-71 that does Mach 3 at sea level as some out there do. However people fly how they want to fly, so we can't really stop them. Not many people know that the SR was limited to 2G, and flying upside down was a no-no. She was designed for one flight regime - high and fast.

Its not everyones cup of tea to go in a straight line, but personally I love the challenge, and once mastered it's not all that difficult, just got to remember the speeds and you're fine!

 

[wilycoyote4]

It's interesting comparing high altitude in FSX to real life imagery, saw this on BBC4 the other day:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJoMDq4AyLc

If anyone would like to consider a freeware program to download most YouTube videos and convert them http://www.any-video-converter.com/products/for_video_free/

Once you get used to it, not hard, you can make some big videos and then edit using Movie Maker (MM6 in Vista). The download for ths large file was youtube video mp4 at 43.2 MB to WMV at 80.1MB at 1124bps 720x480 using the freeware program.

I then made another from the download at 2000bps, 1280x720, WMV 152 MB so I can play it big with pretty good quality. Later, burn a dvd for lcd tv if you know what you're doing, lol.

Many thanks to centuryseries for the link to YouTube.

 

[tigisfat]

I'd forgotten quite what a challenge it is to get a heavy bird up high and fast, I need to get some AI tankers working I'm bored of single climb from take-off and descents straight to landing. What do peole use these days to get themselves some AI company in FSX? I have some tankers, just don't know what software is the standard to make them fly where I want.........
I love that screenshot too Tig

Thanks for the kind words!!

As long as I've owned this bird, here's what I've done:

I've got an ancient freeware KC-135Q. I'll make the SR-71's flightplan first, making sure it goes out to a real world tanker track between or past a known waypoint along it's way, before the acceleration and climb.

I then load the SR-71's flightplan and go back to the place the track was to be. I then manually edit in the track, using tons of ovals so that the tanker will fly there for at least 15 minutes. Then I save the plan under a different name, and load up the game. I fly the route using the tanker and FSRecorder up to about 22,000 feet, depending on the MOA. I then let the autopilot fly the track at 320KIAS for a long time. Be careful with your climb speed, or your blackbird will never catch up. Also, record on zero winds and never change views or click on anything besides autopilot.

I then reload the original SR-71 flight plan and the SR-71, and simply play the tanker file so that it takes off right before I do, otherwise I'll never catch it. Even a 30 second delay means a lot at a few hundred knots. Be sure to know where the track is, so that you can be ready for the turns in the track. As always, head to the join 500 feet low. Climb and accelerate in.

Once I'm off the tanker, the recording ends itself when I'm way up at altitude hundreds of miles away, but it's seamless to me.

 

[Bone]

I've done this exact thing, Tigisfat. I even have multiple tanker tracks recorded for various places.

 

[centuryseries]

Now thats a challenging screenshot - night refuelling! I find it hard enough during the day!!

Thanks for the pointers, I'll try and find some time - my ideal is a tanker waiting near Kadena, then another at the limit of the SR's range so I can fill her up and get back home. Trouble is timing etc lol :isadizzy:

 

[tigisfat]

Now thats a challenging screenshot - night refuelling! I find it hard enough during the day!!

Thanks for the pointers, I'll try and find some time - my ideal is a tanker waiting near Kadena, then another at the limit of the SR's range so I can fill her up and get back home. Trouble is timing etc lol :isadizzy:

The timing equation is easily solved. When you're about 30 seconds from a waypoint, start the tanker recording off at it. Make suer you've got at least 50KIAS on him, and you'll do just fine. Make sure you keep making your tanker flightplans off of the SR-71 flightplan, and make sure you remember which waypoint you used as your holding fix.

 

[gera]

The Chemistry of the fuel of this thing is an adventure in itself!!!! I know someone who worked for a company that had to constantly rework the numbers for as it flew the engine composition changed and so had the fuel!!!!! strange as hell ----and do you know this bug, sweated?????? yep and they din´t have a deshodorant---strange fellow this aircraft.

 

[Matt Wynn]

don't forget that if your engine 'burps' you stop climbing like a homesick angel and head earthwards like a large titanium missile astounds me to think they get so hot weeks after flying they were left to cool and would creak and graon as the airframe contracted

 

[Kavehpd]

That SR-71 fart scene in Transformers 2 compensated for all the nonsense with random footage of F-18s taking off and not showing up later in the movie, F-22s and F-16 reaching the other side of the planet in no time and Megan Fox not wanting to have sex with yours truly!!!

Hard to believe, I know.