{"id":106893,"date":"2020-05-10T20:04:13","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T03:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/all-new-sr-72-blackbird-mach-6-bomber-might-be-on-the-way"},"modified":"2020-05-10T20:04:13","modified_gmt":"2020-05-11T03:04:13","slug":"all-new-sr-72-blackbird-mach-6-bomber-might-be-on-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/all-new-sr-72-blackbird-mach-6-bomber-might-be-on-the-way","title":{"rendered":"All-New SR-72 Blackbird Mach 6 Bomber Might Be On The Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/all-new-sr-72-blackbird-mach-6-bomber-might-be-on-the-way2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you really have the need for speed, you could get it on the ground. But if you\u2019re looking more for stuff that can break the sound barrier many times over, you should consider looking up. That\u2019s the hint casually dropped by aeronautic manufacturer Lockheed Martin, which has mulled over revisiting the idea of a hypersonic revamp. In this case, they\u2019re reportedly looking at an upgrade of the old SR-71 \u201cBlackbird\u201d that first took to the air nearly 60 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Lockheed Martin\u2019s Skunk Works department has been making noises about a revival of the legendary bomber, a jet that was capable of flying up to Mach 3. That\u2019s slightly more than 3,700 mph, about one and a half times speedier than the .220 Swift, reportedly the fastest bullet ever produced.<\/p>\n<p>But the Skunk Work\u2019s brain trust claims the SR-72 might even double the speed of its predecessor. That\u2019s a tricky proposition considering the plane\u2019s air intake would be brutal at those speeds, like trying to start a campfire in gale-force winds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you really have the need for speed, you could get it on the ground. But if you\u2019re looking more for stuff that can break the sound barrier many times over, you should consider looking up. That\u2019s the hint casually dropped by aeronautic manufacturer Lockheed Martin, which has mulled over revisiting the idea of a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}