This is the coolest use of a V8, and it's not in a car!

[@Drivetribe]

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[@markabhassan8405]

Shout out to Mike for wearing a traditional Kenyan bead bangle 😊 Greetings from Kenya 🇰🇪

[@Felice_Enellen]

Mike! It's new-clear, not nuke-you-lure. Please, buddy, I love you, but you're making my ears hurt. 😕

[@KXF41]

Personally I'd never use car vertical just in protest of the amount of times I've been forced to hear "car vertical" it's become enraging 😂

[@Ramsi-Berlin]

Very interesting episode ❣️👌🏼 Thanks for showing ❕🙏🏼 Love from Berlin 🇩🇪 Ramsi 😘🙋🏻‍♂️

[@wangzian5664]

not food blender？

[@NeurodivergentSuperiority]

It was apparentley too cool

[@andrewbailey7999]

This was also my first thought haha

[@phoenixdzk]

Brick, beef & bone smoothies never quite caught on

[@maybenot6075]

My personal favourite was the rocking chair, guaranteed to rock you into a nice longgggg sleep

[@will24655]

Definitely better than a rocking chair

[@joshuawinebrinner3113]

The SR-71, in my opinion, is the coolest thing mankind has ever produced

[@Sunthaz]

Maybe not the coolest thing, but coolest vehicle for sure.

[@deanj846]

Apollo rockets for me.

[@PRCOM]

Concorde is up there

[@noelguer2220]

Oh yes it is the coolest plane in the world. I stand under one last week. This is the coolest plane I ever saw.

[@matthewlovesbritney]

Concorde 💪

[@maybenot6075]

Mike loving the fuel leaking out the panel gaps & also owning an old rover seems very appropriate 😂

[@rg807]

He left out that the fuel was also the hydrolic fluid and about 1M other incredible facts. The entire plane was developed by Lockheed Martin, Skunk Works group in

[@firesurfer]

@@rg807 Ironically, the titanium was sourced from the USSR.

[@areebsiddiqui758]

@@firesurfer Yeah, they set up various shell companies to buy titanium at auctions.

[@x808drifter]

@@rg807 Less impressive though when you realize alot of the work came from the R&D for the A-12. First flight in 1962 went into service 1967. It was could also go faster and higher than the 2 seater SR-71. Also the number he's says are for the A-12 not the SR-71. SR-71 could only go to 85,000. Max speed of 3.2.

[@Charkunt.d5]

If there ain’t no oil under them, there ain’t no oil in them! -Mater 😁

[@Bl4ckWarHawk]

That bass rumble at 4:00 when the SR-71 gets introduced was dope. Great job editor.

[@MAGGOT_VOMIT]

That frontal shot gave me chills. 😂

[@onefastslimjim]

Real quick correction for the Chrysler Bell Victory Siren: if 138 dB doesn't sound impressive, it was measured at 138 dB 100 FEET AWAY FROM THE SIREN. It could be heard for MILES away. It is still the loudest outdoor warning device ever produced to this day. It was an impressive piece of kit.

[@rightwingsafetysquad9872]

I was slightly horrified seeing it ran indoors.

[@supertornadogun1690]

@@rightwingsafetysquad9872 They didn't have that thing ramped up to anywhere near full bore, it is much higher pitched than that at full song.

[@micmc23000]

I think the important thing to remember is that the decibel scale is logarithmic. Meaning at 1 ft it would be 178db which would actually be 100 times louder. Something else important to note here is that ear drums will rupture at 150 db. Meaning anyone within around 25ft is getting their ears blown out instantly. 120db hearing loss will occur in 30 seconds (everyone within 800 ft) 105db hearing loss will occur in 5 minutes (everyone within 4500ft) 103db hearing loss will occur in 7.5 minutes (everyone within a mile) The limiting factor is probably that they don't want to deafen everyone within a significant radius. Not that they can't make it louder

[@Klutch58Customs]

Worth mentioning the SR's fuel was developed specifically so it would not go up in flames if someone dropped a tab end in the puddle.

[@hovie69]

Like all fuel ?

[@stevemcrichards8768]

Yes, the JP7 fuel could only be ignited with a catalyst reaction from I think it was toluene.

[@waynesimpson2074]

@@stevemcrichards8768 Was it Tri-Ethyl-Borate, the green flash we see at for turbine start?

[@HowieCarson]

@@waynesimpson2074 yes that is the Triethylborane flash

[@waynesimpson2074]

@@HowieCarson Yup, apart from pilot fatigue the only limiting factor in the Blackbirds' mission endurance was the limited quantity of the TEB tanks😎

[@mulymule12]

The V8 in the blood house wasn’t used for the jet Engine( that has it’s own fuel pump) is actually used for the a rocket engine that supplements the jet engine, it’s a hybrid rocket engine and it needs all the power just to pump the fuel for the rocket engine.

[@duncanshour]

Unfortunately, bloodhound isn't using the hybrid anymore or the V8 even though it was already tested. It is now using a hydrogen peroxide monoprop thruster that is fed by an electric motor.

[@JosiahGould]

I've been lucky enough to be able to have seen and touched an SR-71 at the Air Force Armament Museum. That plane is awesome. It's so much smaller than you think, but when you know how fast it goes... it's so huge.

[@BRAINFxck10]

Yeah I've seen them at Plant 42, on the ground you notice how lean they are, zero body fat, razor thin edges, narrow cockpit but the proportions are so exaggerated it becomes an optional illusion in pictures and videos the plane looks way bigger.

[@aarondancer4658]

They have one at Duxford Air / war museum. In mid England. Seen it a couple times. It sings alongside a b52 bomber too. If your around that area you must visit

[@finlaygibson8356]

I seen the A-12 at the intrepid museum, absolutely beautiful

[@jeremytheimer7443]

It needs to be huge to accomodate those engines.

[@Gordanovich02]

I've sat in the cockpit section of one at Seattle Museum of Flight. Even with the canopy open and not wearing a high-altitude pressure suit it feels quite snug.

[@TheMissendenFlyer]

Can't compete with the SR71 for coolness of course but when I was a kid at our local glider airfield they's used a stonking great Chevy V8 to power the glider launch winches....still do in fact! I thought it was cool (they sure sounded it)....

[@bradalgra8088]

I work in the Port of Long Beach, and nearby oil refineries use the sirens for their "lunch break" sirens. Suckers are loud! I read in some magazine years ago, that a hot rodder somewhere was able to source a brand new Chrysler Hemi, at an oil refinery, to use in a car he was building. Too cool!

[@stevefowler2112]

I'm a recently retired Aerospace Engineer from Lockheed Martin. The 71 retired about 15 years after i was hired and though I never worked on the program I knew quite a lot of the Engineering details, but I never heard about the engine starting cars. Thanks for a very interesting tid bit.

[@KenSmith-bv4si]

I'm a Phantom Phixer who was stationed @ Kadena AFB, when I was on night shift you could hear the Habu getting started, them V8s would roar but, not as loud as Habu @ full afterburner on take off.

[@phoenixdzk]

Every now & then you get a machine that feels like it belongs in sci-fi more than reality, and the SR-71 is their king

[@kev8943]

As i remember even b-52 stratofortress heavy bombers also use a similar system to start up its 8 jet engines at regular takeoffs(which can take about an hour) , at emergency's where the aircraft needs be air born soon as possible they even use an explosive cartridge to quickly jump start the jet engines.

[@richardl6751]

The KC-135 used a similar system.

[@filanfyretracker]

@@richardl6751 interesting, I figured the KCs would just start with their APUs since they are basically modified jet airliners. I think the 135 is a 707.

[@richardl6751]

@@filanfyretracker For normal starting, yes but when they wanted to get into the air fast they would hit the cartridge and run. Correct, the 135 and 707 are basically the same airframe.

[@bunning63]

There's a guy not far from where I live here in New Zealand that's actually got one of those Wildcat V8s from the XR71 program in his hotrod. Somehow it came all the way to NZ once it became surplus, amazing as they say.

[@PrydeWater901]

The head-on view of the SR-71 Blackbird is the stuff of legend.

[@IgorEngelen1974]

ah yes, the SR-71. Other guys had posters of girls in their bedroom, I had the blackbird and a Lambo Countach :-)

[@Elwaves2925]

The Blackbird, a Mig-31 Firefox and a Ferrari 308 GTE for me.

[@verajavi12]

And now u wonder why u love men.

[@Videoswithsoarin]

legend has it a girl is yet to be seen in that room

[@IgorEngelen1974]

@@Videoswithsoarin ah how nice of you. there’s this other legend; that brains yet have to be found in your skull ;-)

[@Rhodanide]

@@IgorEngelen1974 got em

[@cambridgemart2075]

Another use is in glider winches, the airfield where I did my gliding lessons had a Chevy V8 powered winch.

[@MAGGOT_VOMIT]

Anyone else get chills at that Blackbird frontal shot?? 😂

[@tomzelanin5522]

Later in the SR-71 program the Buick engines were difficult to source. They were replaced with Chevy 454's. I worked in the Side Looking Radar (SLR) shop (reconnissance radar) '82-'86, at Beale AFB, CA. I've never heard of a Buick V6 being used, but who knows? Bench stock in the Aerospace Ground Equipment (AGE) Shop had Holley carbs and Sun tachs, lol. Regardless of which version of the engine was used, they lived a hard life. Running up to redline, holding it to start the SR, then chopping power caused a lot of wear. If you notice the rear view of the engine during start, there's a green flash (starting at 6:15 of the video). The engines were started using Triethylborane (TEB) a highly volatile abd toxic chemical that ignited when exposed to air. If the SR engine "unstarted" in-flight you used another of the 16 shots of TEB. The TEB was also utilized to ignite the afterburners.

[@johna7661]

I was at Beale ‘77 to ‘82 as a crew chief on 00212 and 00117 KC 135 Q tankers for the SR. I got to listen in the early mornings as they started those monsters.

[@filanfyretracker]

same chemical that is used to light the Falcon 9 rocket and how it restarts for landing, I am guessing other rockets using RP-1 for fuel use it too. RP-1 like jet fuel is a variation of kerosene.

[@Make_Boxing_Great_Again]

Thanks for patronising us for several minutes about what a car report can do.

[@williamchurchill3174]

Fantastic video Mike, I really enjoy all these history type studio videos. Just one thing on the SR-71, throughout all its time being a spy plane it did not have a single second over the Soviet Union after Gary Powles had been shot down in his U-2, thus it had such wide film.

[@steelwheelsminnesota]

Thank you. I came here to say this too

[@5startech1]

I've seen the starter carts and the SR 71 on display at Pima Air & Space Museum. The plaque on the starter carts identifies the engines as Chevrolet LS7 454 engines.

[@AudioOrchardMusic]

I saw the cart in a museum in Seattle, that one had 2 425 Buick nailheads.

[@-PLAYER0NE-]

SR-71 has got to be the coolest aircraft ever. There’s a great aviation museum near Seattle that has a legit blackbird cockpit/fuselage that you can sit in. I’m sure it’s been watered down a bit lol but it was an awesome experience, it’s just amazing to me that nothing has flown as fast or high as that machine since then.

[@iKvetch558]

V-8 engine on the starter cart for the SR-71/A-12...knew it as soon as I saw the picture of the plane. Still a great story told really well.👍💯✌

[@GemSquash96]

This is so interesting and the video is absolutely brilliantly produced

[@bryankotsch]

Don't forget Clarkson's V-8 powered air compressor for inflating love dolls.

[@colinstamp9053]

The Bloodhound V8 powers the oxidizer pump for the rockets, not the fuel pump for the jet.

[@Pugjamin]

they changed the design to use an electric motor to run the oxider pump in the latest design

[@RJN82]

The SR-71 always looks like it's 20 years in the future!

[@redjaypictures4528]

As an aviation enthusiast, i did a lot of research into commercial planes that are fun to fly, and one company in Russia has made a small racer plane that looks like a fighter jet, and it uses the horsepower of a V8 on par with the one in a charger, to power two ducted fans that power the plane

[@boneyardbiker]

I lived near Greenville SC many years ago, I wish I had known this 20 years ago, I would have definitely went looking back then!

[@joe_moms_lover]

I don't know, the Clarkson Corvette blender is pretty up there too. And that rocking chair?

[@stevemcrichards8768]

Agreed.

[@pantherdean84]

and the stairlift

[@liviubita4238]

The Robin comes to mind.

[@benn454]

Could blend you if I wanted.

[@peaty32]

No. The SR-71 may be a close third, but the coolest application of a V8 to this day still is on the old granny's rocking chair. Followed by the mixer grinder. Don't even bother to argue this one, you are wrong.

[@AlaskaSkidood]

It wasn't a stealth aircraft, it was a reconnaissance aircraft. It didn't avoid detection so much as avoid interception by going so fast it was too late to do anything by the time it was detected.

[@wagnerrp]

It was stealth for the time. The chines and canted tails were added specifically to produce a reduced radar cross section, and they experimented with cesium-laced fuel that would ionize the exhaust to absorb radar.

[@Obsfucation]

The Skunk Works did extensive testing of the Blackbird’s RCS (RADAR cross section) to design in a lot of stealth concepts. They also used wedges of RAM (RADAR Absorbing Material) on the leading edge to help along with the design features Raymond correctly lists. Certainly not to the standards of today or even the last 25 years but, most definitely stealth in any book.

[@MustangsTrainsMowers]

The Ford 300 inline six cylinder engine was installed in cars, trucks, medium duty trucks, UPS trucks, wood chippers, water pumps, generators, giant boat lifts and sometimes farmers would repower a combine or tractor with one. I had over a dozen Ford trucks including a 1971 F600 with 300-6 in them. I miss the most the 1994 F250HD I had with the 300-6, ZF heavy duty 5 speed manual transmission and 2wd. Wish I could find another one that’s 4x4.

[@FLAPARON]

Atlas Copco built air start units for Boeing 707, & DC8. Powered by a big block V8, and by the time the 4th engine was started the Exhaust manifolds were translucent. The Atlas Copco air start was superseded by gas Turbine start units.

[@chris_flies_business]

As a fellow V8 daily driver (Holden 6.2 LS3), i'm already biased to agree this is the most legendary engine layout...however the V10 I think is the best sounding.

[@tighematthew]

I agree 👍

[@filanfyretracker]

its crazy the places you find V8 engines, Especially ones like the Chevy 350. I suspect one reason is not just they are a solid reliable design but also you can still get parts for them. Either new or from a junkyard.

[@Tom-Lahaye]

The use in the Bloodhound was the one which was new to me, I knew the use as starter motors for the SR-71 and for the siren. The Blackbird is an awesome plane, I saw the example at Duxford, the leading edge of its wings is as sharp as a knife. Other weird uses I have seen of a V-8 is in a chain saw and a food blender (Top Gear), more common uses outside a car are locomotives, boats, power generators and planes

[@Usmodlover]

you know the contents going downhill when you have to skip to 4 minutes in the video for them to get into the content

[@3ducs]

In my 60 years of driving I've only owned one V8 car, a 1969 Maserati Ghibli 4.7 liter. All my friends had V8s though.

[@jamesmancuso3666]

One major part of the SR-71 was the titanium body. The source for the metal at the time was the USSR which the plane was spying on.

[@Uajd-hb1qs]

I knew the Victory Siren would be on this list. What can be more American than the worlds loudest siren being powered by a V8 🇺🇸

[@Simon-Zephyr]

Great to see Mike talking about the SR-71.

[@theprodigalstranger5259]

Mike, nucular (nuk-u-lar) is not word, its nuclear and is pronounced new-clear. On a plus note the Isengard sweater is phenomenally cool! I'm not that far from Rochester N.Y. so maybe Ill go photo hunting when I get my motorcycle back from the shop.

[@smartin2174]

Just ask Homer Simpson. 😆

[@pcgenie-la]

Two comments: 1) The starter carts for the SR-71 were called "Meet the Buicks", according the Seattle Air Museum exhibit, because the V-8's used were Buicks. 2) the Jet fuel leaking on the ground was not as flammable or dangerous as you might think. It was a specially formulated jet fuel designed especially for the SR-71 with low volitility.

[@bobwiley6221]

The SR-71 was made with paper and slide rules. Not a computer in sight in the design room. Kelly Johnson was a genius.

[@beezball]

Ha, so I live in Warner Robins GA, and the air force aviation museum is here. They have an awesome SR-71 and they have this engine there with an informational plaque as well.

[@richardl6751]

The AG330 starter cart was used early on but an air-start method superseded the cumbersome "Buicks" when better compressed air supplies became available.

[@geoff3610]

You should have mentioned boating! V8's are very common recreational boat motors. There's even v8 boat racing classes

[@Felice_Enellen]

Everyone in that siren test scene now has massive tinnitus.

[@Henchman_Holding_Wrench]

I saw the A-12 Blackbird on the deck of the Intrepid as a kid. Man, I wish I could see it fly. What? No mention of Clarkson's V8 blender?

[@rootofskynet]

"f**k it level of engineering..". i've to remember that one. you just made my day, sir.

[@Hanky_Bannist8r]

I live about 10 miles from Beale Air Force Base in Northern California where the SR-71 called home. Now, I see U-2 Dragonlady spy planes daily. What a treat.

[@wildcat6669]

just a side note, the Buick Engines were not techically the Wildcat Engine, but rather a nailhead which was discontinued in 1967, after that there new V8s were nicknamed Wildcat motors, although the wildcat was also a car the same time as the nailhead was used but still used the old name

[@AudioOrchardMusic]

I have seen the SR-71 starter cart in a museum in Seattle. It had 2 425 nailhead Buick V8’s.

[@ronniestanley75]

I personally like the engine that was used in the Sherman tanks from WWII. It was an adapter plate that held five v-8 engines. They used a common engine of that period so that they could be made quickly and there was already repair parts that were easy to get.

[@sabero5668]

I thought those were chrysler slant 6's, although the original engine designed for the tank was a titanic ford v8 and the makeshift 30 cylinder was used while ford was ramping up production

[@AD-xt9og]

The Boeing air museum in Seattle has a M-21 (SR-71) along with its starter cart and a spare jet engine on display.

[@calvingreene90]

The coolingest use of V-8 engines is powering industrial heat pumps.

[@mefobills279]

The SR was a turbo ramjet. I was woken every morning to the start cart. Very nice sound, but by then it was a rat motor.. a Chevy 454. The fuel only weeped out of the expansion joints. The pilot's would get leather face from the Sun. Even with a gold faced helmet visor, the Sun's rays are hostile when flying so high.

[@chrisreed3515]

There are two Chrysler air raid sirens left in Seattle. The most prominent one is on Phinney Ridge near Woodland Park Zoo. It's been painted bright yellow and is hard to miss. The other is next to the parking lot at North Acres Park and, while in plain site, is not very noticeable. I suspect most people who drive by it everyday don't know it's there. Neither one is functional anymore.

[@brettnicholas3190]

My family worked in the factory that made the J58 engines. And many others. Pratt makes beautiful engines ….

[@david-spliso1928]

I've run my hand along the fuselage of the SR-71 Blackbird spy plane. Wright Patterson Airforce Base museum. Feels rubbery. Also the F-117 Nighthawk stealth bomber. Beautiful planes.

[@filanfyretracker]

F-117 even today looks out of its time, looks like something that would be a starfighter in a scifi movie.

[@markmayer7495]

The sr71 engines weren't turbojets, but rather turboramjets. Also as far as I am aware the sr71 didn't ever overfly any superpowers airspace. It wouldn't need to as staying outside of the 12 nautical mile line would still leave it in international airspace, whilst letting it look and listen well within the superpowers territory due the the aircrafts shear altitude.

[@ApothecaryTerry]

I'll always pick a V10 or flat 6 over a V8, but the list of awesome cars powered by the V8 is definitely unmatched in number. The SR-71 is the coolest vehicle ever though, but they cost nearly twice as much per flight hour as a B-2 and at least 5x what the F-35 costs so I can see why they retired it...still a shame though.

[@damionlee7658]

Archangel (The A-12 model of the Blackbird family) driver Frank Murray used to refer to the SR-71 as "The family model". There are videos of some very interesting talks he gives, floating around on KZbin.

[@Stef.Cata051]

Nooo, the best engines are in-line 6, they're literally moving the world right now

[@HansDelbruck53]

Figuratively, not literally.

[@InternetEntity]

Yup, straight-6. Fight us about it, but nicely please.

[@BigWoody823]

Key words to that phrase are “right now”, it may be an in-line 6 now, but best ever? Nah

[@BigWoody823]

@@richardharrold9736 to quote the great philosopher Clarksonius 3rd century AD, “Bigger is better”

[@iowa_don]

4:34 - It did NOT replace the U-2. According to Wiki, the U-2 is listed as being "in service" and the SR-71 is listed as "retired" as of 4/12/2023.

[@waynesimpson2074]

Correct Sir...and the reason the BB was specced with such a performance envelope was so it never actually had to fly 'over' the USSR, it just went right up to the border to get the pictures it needed.

[@shutterflyboy85]

We had an emergency generator the size of a house at the utility I worked at, and it used a v-8 to start the two C-130 engines to drive it. I believe they were Allis-Chalmers tractor engines. Udvar-Hazy at Dulles has an SR-71 and Tom Lee Jones' character in Space Cowboys describes these very same events. I knew it was time to come home for dinner because our neighborhood Air Raid siren was tested every day at 6PM! Duck and cover... before being vaporized like Linda Hamilton! Signed-2 litre Capri lover.

[@oliverbyrne3209]

Mike should have his own car show on TV... one of the best presenters of this type of content there is on the internet.

[@althejazzman]

I like Mike's uncensored nerdy excitement in this.

[@billiecook97]

I'd Recommend to anyone to head over to the IWM Duxford to have a close look at an SR-71, as well as all the other Aircraft they have there. Truly extraordinary bit of kit.

[@MichaelG1986]

The big guy in the old air raid siren video definitely looked like Robbie Coltrane's doppelganger.🙂

[@ManuelPerez-ip4bb]

903 Cummins Diesel V8 was used to power missile launcher systems, and is still used in the Bradley's armoured personnel carrier. 903 cubic inch.

[@badboattail]

You show a photo of a model year 1968 Buick Wildcat Custom sedan at 5:57 But Wildcat is the name of those Nailhead engines, so they didn't come from just the Buick Wildcat car model. Later on they used Chevrolet LS-7 454 engines for the starter kits.

[@jameshewitt8828]

They’ve got a lovely example of a SR71 Blackbird at IWM Duxford

[@andrewcooper8980]

At first I wasn’t sure if I was going to watch this episode but I’m sure glad I did.

[@doxnoogle5782]

The idea of thinking a jaguar engine is less fragile than a cosworth has me rolling. I would be surprised to learn that the nailheads in the SR71 starting cart turn 5k under their own power, more likely that is the redline for being overspeeded by the jet. The 401 and 425s used have some really neat design features, if not outright obscure, like the fact that they have smaller valves than a 289 ford (known for small valves) and teeny tiny intake ports due to the vertical valves (nailhead) because the pushrods path of travel.

[@BLAC_WORX]

Someone actually got their hands on one of the v8's from an SR71 starter cart and put it in a car. Coolest engine ever for sure

[@XBullitt16X]

There are other really cool jets, but the Blackbird is my favourite one, there is nothing quite like the SR-71.

[@dakavanagh]

I'm watching this video from Rochester, NY. Time to go looking (though I'd rather find an SR-71 than a siren)

[@jonmeray713]

In fort scott kansas they have those exact things as tornado sirens. I have seen them all across kansas

[@lord_scrubington]

I think they did this for a number of other aircraft as well for scrambling

[@williampaddock4863]

The SR-71 did not replace the U-2. The lockheed U-2 was still flying long after the retirment of the SR-71 In the 2023 Chinese balloon incident, the U.S. Air Force used U-2 aircraft to monitor a Chinese balloon that crossed the United States and Canada. U-2 flights confirmed the balloon's surveillance package was outfitted with multiple antennas capable of conducting signals intelligence collection operations and that the craft had large solar panels to power them.

[@timbrwolf1121]

I literally got weak in the knees when I heard the words "fuel pump" I did not anticipate this.

[@madmania056]

At work we have an AEC 6 cylinder starter trailer that was used for the Vulcans and a few other aircrafts.. can't remember any others they used

[@rhyswilliams4893]

Surely the greatest engine ever is the tiny little 3 cylinders in the GR yaris comfortably making 300+ HP while doing 30+ mpg... engines who purpose is turning fuel into power and the G16E-GTS absolutely smashes it.

[@azzajames7661]

I'm sorry, but the coolest in using a Supercharged V8 as a fuel pump, lol. That is just mental🤪

[@the2uzrunner]

I believe the 1UZ was also considered to be used as a plane engine. It was the only engine approved by the FAA for aviation use. I believe....

[@mattmisanthropy.]

This is correct. I've seen a video of a light aircraft flying, powered by the 1UZ. It's a strange sound because you're used to hearing it in a car, but you instead hear the sound of the 1UZ mixed with the propeller, and see a plane.

[@YZ250W1]

JP7 has a flash point of 140 degrees. It's very hard to light, hence the TEB to start the engines. Leaking all over the ground isn't a big deal.

[@_AF__]

I'll undoubtedly be in Seattle sometime soon-ish. If I can remember, I'll grab a shot of the air raid siren!

[@beagle7622]

From what I can real the ground crews really got these engines singing. Putting out much more power than the Standard V8 . If you watch an SR71 being started you can hear these engines screaming. I bet there were some high performance parts involved. The green flame you can see when starting the engine was an explosive TEB liquid which was used to ignite the special fuel which had a very high ignition temperature because if the temperatures seen on the plane at cruising speed. A remarkable aircraft.

[@waynesimpson2074]

You beat me to it, TriEthylBorate I believe?

[@aaronhussain3873]

The bloodhound is on display at the Coventry transport museum at the moment. Last time I saw it, the engine and related bits were removed - presumably the team ran out of funds to try and achieve the 1,000mph goal :(

[@earlofpineapple4830]

the quality of content lately has been impressive

[@pizza2437]

this is super cool, although personally I think the Concorde beats the SR-71 for coolest thing ever, but its not far behind.

[@Sebastian001]

One of the most interesting videos you’ve made

[@henrytang2203]

Australian V8 super boats are pretty cool too. They can out accelerate a Tesla Model S Plaid to 100km/h.

[@ericrosenburg657]

Cool? Of course. But, I had the privilege of riding in a sail plane piloted by my uncle Hilton in Hobbs NM. We were dragged aloft by a big V8 motor connected to a huge spool of wire. It was an amazing experience. We couldn’t outrun a bottle rocket, though.

[@samuelsalita1660]

When I heard that the SSC had a jag v8 for a fuel pump, I immediately realized by the project was so expensive: They had to replace the garbage engine after every run.