{"id":140645,"date":"2022-06-15T15:40:38","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T20:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/darkstar-the-hypersonic-jet-in-top-gun-maverick-could-become-a-real-plane"},"modified":"2022-06-15T15:40:38","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T20:40:38","slug":"darkstar-the-hypersonic-jet-in-top-gun-maverick-could-become-a-real-plane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/darkstar-the-hypersonic-jet-in-top-gun-maverick-could-become-a-real-plane","title":{"rendered":"Darkstar, the Hypersonic Jet in \u2018Top Gun: Maverick,\u2019 Could Become a Real Plane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/darkstar-the-hypersonic-jet-in-top-gun-maverick-could-become-a-real-plane.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The legendary Skunk Works had a hand in developing Tom Cruise\u2019s fastest plane yet.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>In Top Gun: Maverick, Captain Pete \u201cMaverick\u201d Mitchell takes his need for speed to a new realm: the hypersonic realm, that is. Thirty-six years after the first film debuted, Mitchell is a test pilot flying the SR-72 \u201cDarkstar\u201d airplane. Although fictional, the SR-72 has a real-world pedigree, with design help for the aircraft and models coming from the same group that is designing the real SR-72: the world-famous Skunk Works, Lockheed Martin\u2019s Advanced Development Programs.<\/p>\n<p>According to Lockheed Martin, the production team behind Top Gun: Maverick contacted the company\u2019s Skunk Works division to assist with the SR-72 concept. The Skunk Works, a name drawn from the cartoon Li\u2019l Abner, is the division of Lockheed Martin that works on classified aircraft programs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The legendary Skunk Works had a hand in developing Tom Cruise\u2019s fastest plane yet. In Top Gun: Maverick, Captain Pete \u201cMaverick\u201d Mitchell takes his need for speed to a new realm: the hypersonic realm, that is. Thirty-six years after the first film debuted, Mitchell is a test pilot flying the SR-72 \u201cDarkstar\u201d airplane. Although fictional, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140645","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\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}