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ONE OF A KIND FABRICATIONS USING AUTHENTIC MATERIALS FROM HISTORIC SR-71 BLACKBIRDS
          

THE SR-71 ENGINES, "PRATT & WHITNEY J58" THE POWER OF 45 LOCOMOTIVES


 This is not your ordinary aircraft titanium, its B120VCA.

 

"The SR-71 BLACKBIRD"
 
1971 MACKAY TROPHY WINNER
"most meritorious flight of the year"
 
1972 HARMON INTERNATIONAL TROPHY
"most outstanding international achievement in the art / science of aeronautics"
 
July 27 / 28, 1976
3 SR-71's flown by 3 different crews set 7 world speed and altitude records.

Please view the following pages to see some of our items
 
 
This is the Mighty Blackbird's Exhaust Nozzle
SR-71 #17963, Beale AFB, CA. 963 stands proudly as the finishing touches of her beautiful new home are completed.
 
3-6-08, SR-71A #61-7963 has been painted with a base coat of Industrial Marine Acrylic black paint and given a UV resistant clear top coat in hopes to keep the hot Beale sun from fading it. If you want to get good photos of this bird I would say that soon after its finished being painted, It won’t take long for the dust to settle on her.
The D-21 Drone is still gone from its display pad.
 
Below are photos of the Inner Hastelloy X and the Outer Titanium Ejector Flap Expansion Joints.
 
  
The 9th Reconnaissance Wing proudly displays her heritage.
The men and women of the 9th did a fantastic job refurbishing SR-71A, 61-7963.
It just goes to show they still have that same old HABU sprit.
 
Sporting the new paint job #963 makes approach after a hot mission.

Personalized Titanium Dog Tag, This one is from A/C 61-7960.
Standard Titanium Dog Tags retail for $115, one like this is only $69 from MACH3Ti.com

2 inch tall Titanium ADP Shield 
The shield still has the wear marks caused by the extreme heat and presure in the Exhaust Nozzle of #61-7972
On Ebay now only $99, "Buy It Now"

Your SR-71 Titanium comes with a beautiful 8-1/2" x 11" Certificate of Authenticty 
The Hastelloy X base polishes up like a mirror.

 
Two Inch Diameter Titanium Coin in case from aircraft #61-7960.
Photo shows front and back, Only 2 made like this.
 THESE ARE SOLD
SEND REQUEST FOR MORE
 
A gift that will never wear out

Large over 4 inches high LASER Titanium on Hastelloy X Base.
Get yours personnalized
Have a name or dates LASER engraved

18 inches of SR-71 Titanium 1/2 of a Turkey Feather. Thats a lot of Titanium!!! 
Smaller pieces available as low as $19.99

 Rings as low as $149
Custom Ring made from #974
Dan, My wife absolutely loves the ring. She hasn’t taken it off since it arrived. My sincere compliments go to you for your fantastic work. My wife is a jeweler apprentice and custom makes jewelry as a hobby. These are her words, (for someone who says he is not a jeweler he sure has ring making down pat,) she said the workmanship was excellent. On a personal note, your items are first class, and I plan to order more to add to my personal "wall of achievements mementos and c.w.r.s. etc what would you charge for a polished Hastelloy X sample like the one you sent with the COA. Look forward to hearing from you and best wishes for a great day.
James Tully GS-12 Test Engineer (Ret)  Det: AFFTC, Boeing, NASA.

Thank you for the nice compliments’! As a machinist I have grown accustom to not wearing rings. But, since I made one of these rings and wore it, I found it was so comfortable that it didn’t feel like I was wearing a ring. This titanium has as one of its properties, the ability to absorb and maintain the temperature of its surroundings. And being so light makes it very comfortable as jewelry. 
Dan
 

A large hand made Sculpture only $199
SR-71 Blackbird LASER etched on a Titanium Diamond
OVER 4 INCHES TALL
HASTELLOY X stand included
 

"DISCOVERED"
"ASPEN 28" "PILOT CANOPY"
"4-2008"

SR-71 Titanium sees the light of day for the first time after more than 40 years after its tremendous impact straight into the Earth.
 
“I was strolling thru the desert one day, in the merry, merry month before May-- I was taken by surprise by a shinny piece of Ti “--- Hey look  under that rock!, none other than SR-71A, #61-7965’s forward canopy. It has the Lockheed Skunk Works build number 2016 stamped right on it. This is going to make someone an awesome and beautiful display piece.
 

25 Oct 1967, #61-7965 was the 10th Blackbird lost. Estimated speed at impact in excess of 1200 miles per hour sending debris through the bottom of a 40 foot crater. Lockheed Skunk Works build number 2016 was on a training mission and returning home to Beale AFB when it’s Navigation System failed in total darkness. "ASPEN 28's" pilot, Capt. Roy StMartin and RSO Capt. John Carnochan narrowly and heroically escaped with their lives.
This pilot’s canopy ejected with the aircrew thus survived the devastating impact and remains one of the very few whole pieces of 965 in existence.
 
Serious OFFERS now being considered.
Send offers or request for more photos from contact us page http://mach3ti.com/contactus.aspx.

 
As the story goes,
During a high speed training mission on a very dark night. 25 Oct 1967. Pilot Maj Roy St Martin and RSO Capt John Carnochan were finishing up maneuvers as call sign “ASPEN 28”. During the Mach 2.8 dash back to their home base in Northern California. The navigation system failed without warning. This caused the autopilot to bring the aircraft into a steep bank while the instruments indicated the aircraft was still in level flight.

It was so dark outside that the crew had no visible horizon. As the aircraft fell from 60,000 feet its speed increased. Miles passed in seconds, the SR-71 inverted and recovery became impossible. At 40,000 feet the aircraft was in a terminal dive.

The bailout order was given and the RSO ejected at a speed of Mach 1.4, below 30,000 feet. His seat was about 6 miles from the crash site. The pilot soon followed as the aircrafts speed increased and less than one mile before sure death, as his canopy deployed just prior to terrain altitude above 5,000 ft. His ejection sequence was still in progress as the jet shot into the earth like a hypervelocity meteor creating a bright white blinding titanium flash explosion. His seat landed 110 yards from the crater. Before he ejected he heard a warning buzzer in the cockpit that indicated the plane was below 10,000 feet with the landing gear retracted.

The huge impact crater left no recognizable traces of the aircraft. It’s been reported that nothing of SR-71A #61-7965 was found bigger than a grapefruit and what didn’t disintegrate, penetrated deep into the earth.
------------   Except her Canopy’s.
 

TITANIUM SWIZZLE STICK
Call Sign
"TROMP 31"
The very end subcomponet of 960's Turkey Feathers to cross "The Line of Death"
The natural curve of the part is the radius of the SR-71's exhuast nozzle.
$189.00 Measures approximately 2/10th" X 6.891"

 
Ladies Titanium Bracelet
This bracelet is made from a piece of SR-71 Blackbird Titanium from aircraft 974.
It is composed of two pieces that were originally spot welded together on the jet.
The bracelet was heat formed, polished, and heat colorized.
It measures 2-5/16 inches across and 7/16 inches wide, Ladies size small.
Sunlight enhances the brilliant colors of this magnificent bracelet. only $199.


Ti- 13V- 11CR- 3Al,  Money Clip Holds a heavy load of bills as easy as a single bill. 4 inches of SR-71 Titanium.
$189.  Order One Now, get it LASER Engraved and personalized. This one came from the Libian Raider #960.

2 inch and 1-3/4 inch Titanium Coins from SR-71 61-7974 ICHI BAN
Commemorating ICHI BAN'S First Operational Sortie
These coins make great Key Fobs and Golf Ball markers.
   Sold                                                                                                            Sold
ICHI BAN'S Original Black Emissive Paint on the back of the coin

 


“SR-71 BLACKBIRDIE”
The Ultimate Golf Pro Accessory

“KEY CHAIN” “PITCH MARK REPAIR TOOL” “BALL MARKER” “BOTTLE OPENER”

ALSO KNOWN AS A BALL MARK REPAIR TOOL
$249.
Courteous golf professionals are required to repair the marks on the greens caused by their balls.
Each time a golf ball hits the putting surface, it leaves a mark.
Proper golf etiquette dictates that you repair any damage to the putting surface, especially damage due to a ball.
(Not even TW has one of these)

Super Strong Super lightweight, Razor Sharp Survival Scalpel.
Titanium from SR-71 #972, 5-5/8 inches long. $239.
 

One of the last pieces of 958, 4-1/2 inch Titanium Key Chain / Bottle Opener
$89.
This BETA 120 VCA, SR-71 BLACKBIRD TITANIUM works as a balance scale,
Metalworking this material is quite differenent than other metals.
It also has a very sharp chisel point, handi for making holes, scraping, or cutting.
This sharpened tip was at the very end of the Blackbirds exhaust nozzle, so you know its been heat treated quite well.
At One Hundred Eighty Five Thousand Pounds Per Square Inch, Tensile Strength,
This Ti-13V-11Cr-3Al is up to Forty One Thousand Pounds Per Square Inch stronger than standard aircraft grade titanium.

"THREE EAGLES" 
This handi Key Chain Bottle Opener is made from the Titanium parts of the
Fastest Recorded Manned "Air Breathing" Jet Aircraft on the planet SR-71A #17958
It set an average speed of 2193.167 Miles Per Hour on 27/28 July 1979.
 3 inch only $49, 2 inch only $39
 


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A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE
SR-71 BLACKBIRD

The Lockheed SR-71 was an advanced, long-range, Mach 3 strategic reconnaissance aircraft developed from the Lockheed YF-12A and A-12 aircraft by the Lockheed Skunk Works. The A-12 was developed and tested during the early 60's under the Top Secret "OXCART" program at AREA 51.
The SR-71 was unofficially named the Blackbird, and called the Habu ("snake") by its crews. Clarence "Kelly" Johnson was responsible for many of the design's advanced concepts, with the SR-71 being one of the first aircraft shaped to reduce its radar cross section, although its radar signature could be tracked by contemporary systems unlike later "stealth" aircraft. A defensive feature of the aircraft was its high speed and operating altitude; whereby if a surface-to-air missile launch was detected, standard evasive action was simply to accelerate. The SR-71 line was in service from 1964 to 1998, with 12 of the 32 aircraft being destroyed in accidents, though none were lost to enemy action.

Our Items are 100% guaranteed AUTHENTIC

The materials we use are AUTHENTIC ACTUAL SR-71 BLACKBIRD PARTS. These parts were installed and used on the Blackbird airframes on many top secret high speed missions flying at altitudes near the edge of space. These parts consist of either Titanium or Nickel Alloy.
 
Features such as- original paint, part numbers, QC inspection stamps, Dates, Special original coatings, surface treatments, and dimensions and specific SR-71 aircraft ID or tail numbers that have been hand marked by Blackbird maintenance crews have also been found under the exhaust soot.
 

No symbols, or any colorable imitation of such words, initials, or seals in connection with any merchandise, impersonation, solicitation, or commercial activity in any manner is to be calculated to convey the impression that such use is approved, or endorsed, by any Agency, or person.
 
The statement below was made after seeing the photos of my pieces, by the Renowned Aviation Author / Aircraft Historian / Aerospace Archeologist.
Also known as The X-Hunter, PETE MERLIN

“I can tell just from looking at the photos that the pieces are authentic. I have a great deal of experience with Blackbird parts. This is the real deal.

A certificate of authenticity is just a piece of paper. Anyone can print one. A collector has to educate himself to know whether the item in question is as advertised. I can tell you, in this case, that it is.”

Pete W.Merlin 8-18-2007
Author, Aircraft Historian and Aerospace Archeologist
You can read about Mr. Merlin and his amazing quest for lost X-Planes on the following web sites.
The X-Hunters - Aerospace Archeology Team
Home Page of The X-Hunters - Aerospace Archeology Team.
www.thexhunters.com/

Author Peter Merlin, Member Roadrunners Internationale
Peter W. Merlin has worked as an historian/archivist in the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center History Office since June 1997. He originally joined the ...
area51specialprojects.com/merlin.html -

OXCART Down! - Searching for the remains of a secret spy plane
By Peter W. Merlin, October 2003 ... The first piece of A-12 (60-6926/Article 123) found by Peter Merlin on 4 October 2003. ...
roadrunnersinternationale.com/merlin/oxcart_down_6.html 

 
The brite white sparks of B120VCA Titanium 
"A Metalworkers Challange"