SR71 Engine by Richard Graham (SR71 Pilot)

Aaron let's put some typing on that's when they said well it's you so that high-pressure air that's going through there and augment the thrust Tellis of us built this augmented thrust with only 16 to give up or dismiss much greater this expansion joint for the heat container right here is very unique it holds about I said a look at letter a little bit less than what lever of a liquid chemical liquid chemical in there is very volatile what's called triethyl lorry triethyl warning the TEB we call it temper short try out the bore he has a characteristic if I head it will stay ahead of the squirt gun right here and I swear that right here right now it would go kaboom it explodes as soon as you expose it to the atmosphere so when the guys smell that tank attempt time they come out in the suit everyone's out of the hires they look like spacemen and they fill it up it's inert it with gaseous nitrogen to keep it in early that is then take it from me to discourage sequins and we take the throttle and go from cut off to idle during to start get rotation bring the throttle up as soon as the fuel control line since right the psi1 to the main fuel control it sprayed this neither amount of missus have in the turbine section which is located about right here and if I go kaboom and that's what in turn then off the jp-7 fuel the fuel this airplane is a one-of-a-kind jp-7 has a very very high class it has to because the field temperature gets up to 350 because of that Kelly came up this fuel normal ignition plugs igniter plugs like we have in jet engines usually it like lives with American Airlines we have the all the engines had to admire plugs back up just a redundancy a very high spark plugs if you will put JT's some anomalies Brown them out so Kelly said okay guys come up with some way to start this me and Mike this jp-7 and that's what they came up with and liquid chemical we had 16 shots on each engine that will counter in each throttle so he soon as you start the engine to go from 16 down to 15 when you like the afterburner you go from 15 down to 14 so you kept track numerically on this little calendar it was a just a mechanical counter take them off 16 shots printed then they get a stark here these are doors resubmit of those Israel's we call them suck indoors and this sorna's as you go along they just sort of open and modulate just like I'm going right here other means on their skins driver and they drive additionally to this section right here which is the after part or section that's what it's all about this engines located pretty close to where would be actually in the airplane useless what people say how do you

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Keywords: SR71, Richard Graham, Duxford Air Museum, Lockheed, skunkworks, lockheed martin

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Length: 3min 0sec (180 seconds)

Published: Sat Dec 30 2017

Reddit Comments

[u/OldGuyGeek]

If you want to learn how the J58 engines work, here's a great video explaining it in detail but in terms the rest of us can understand.

How the SR-71 Engines Work