Re: How many aviation fans are there on this forum?
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Originally Posted by Yuri
I too fell in love with the SR71 Blackbird!!
I have heard that when filled with aviation fuel, it actually leaks through the metal skin of the plane. Only when it reaches it's supersonic speeds, does the fuselage heat up from friction with the air and expand to close the gaps.
Any truth to this seemingly far-fetched tale? As an engeneer perhaps you could comment on this?
(and I thought engeneers just drove trains! 
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As an engineer I reckon that explanation is on the money Yuri
Continuing the SR71 theme
thanks to a lead in a newsletter I can now bring you a youtube video of a most remarkable model of my very favoUrite aeroplane
Radio Controlled SR-71 Jet
text by the uploader
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Radio-controlled SR-71 jet with real jet engines. Awesome!
caption on the site I was led to:-
http://www.flixxy.com/rc-jet-sr-71.ht
I llked this comment by a youtube viewer:-
"hehehee.... no doubt; and I thought my dad's Lincoln Navigator was cool "!
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