---
title: "Check Out All These Blackbird Videos NASA Just Released"
description: "A whole new trove of flight test videos were published by NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center."
date: "2017-07-22"
modified: "2017-07-22"
authors:
  - name: "Tyler Rogoway"
    job_title: "Editor-in-Chief"
    link: "https://www.twz.com/authors/tyler-rogoway"
url: "https://www.twz.com/12757/check-out-all-these-blackbird-videos-nasa-just-released"
categories:
  - "Air"
  - "Manned ISR"
  - "NASA"
  - "Space"
  - "SR-71"
tags:
  - "Armstrong Flight Research Center"
  - "Dryden"
  - "Edwards AFB"
  - "flight test"
  - "NASA"
  - "SR-71"
  - "UCAV"
  - "valkyrie"
  - "X-40"
  - "X-45"
  - "XB-70"
  - "YF-12"
---

# Check Out All These Blackbird Videos NASA Just Released

![](<https://www.twz.com/wp-content/uploads/images-by-url-twz/content/2017/07/kiuiad51.jpg>)
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NASA [Armstrong Flight Research Center](<https://www.nasa.gov/centers/armstrong/home/index.html>) is posting hundreds of film clips to Youtube from the agency's flight test activities at Dryden/Edwards AFB over the decades, many of which have never been seen before. So far they have posted a few hundred videos, and a handful of them feature the legendary [YF-12](<https://www.nasa.gov/centers/armstrong/news/FactSheets/FS-047-DFRC.html>) and [SR-71 Blackbird](<https://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/celebrate-the-51st-anniversary-of-the-sr-71-blackbirds-1749338300>).

https://youtube.com/embed/Ol7Tcza6wi0

https://youtube.com/embed/pwnRQKZh9Ec

https://youtube.com/embed/USsKznwIQxI

https://youtube.com/embed/pIPOVuJrOF0

https://youtube.com/embed/5SwyJTJagq8

https://youtube.com/embed/vJ-XDNl8u_4

https://youtube.com/embed/bJ3kJbv3oVI

https://youtube.com/embed/iKNS4DTj3io

https://youtube.com/embed/cxGbmAtfaX8

https://youtube.com/embed/KrhJ3vFD3fE

https://youtube.com/embed/w61qCsDg7II

Videos of the X-45 Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle (UCAV) were also posted. As we have discussed [in great depth before](<https://www.twz.com/3889/the-alarming-case-of-the-usafs-mysteriously-missing-unmanned-combat-air-vehicles>), it's amazing that networked UCAV technology was proven nearly a decade and a half ago. There are also some great clips of the X-40 Space Maneuver Vehicle in testing. This was the forerunner to the USAF's successful [X-37B orbiter](<https://www.twz.com/10684/darpa-chooses-x-37-builder-boeing-to-craft-a-revolutionary-space-plane>) that makes so many headlines today. Finally, a couple [XB-70 Valkyrie](<https://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/take-a-virtual-360-tour-of-the-amazing-xb-70-valkyries-1740724279>) videos were posted as well—it's an aircraft we can't get enough of.

This is just a sampling of the various playlists that are offered up, so make sure you go other to Armstrong Flight Research Center's [Youtube page](<https://www.youtube.com/user/DrydenTV/playlists>) to browse the whole archive, and more videos are supposedly going to be uploaded soon.

https://youtube.com/embed/uCLCq_ggCL4

https://youtube.com/embed/GjRNF-TVn3Q

https://youtube.com/embed/FD90UuPpaAo

https://youtube.com/embed/-AFsPyN1GNA

https://youtube.com/embed/LdSwKqY-WA4

*Contact the author: Tyler@thedrive.com*

## Author
Tyler’s passion is the study of military technology, strategy, as well as foreign policy, and he has fostered a dominant voice on those topics in the defense and national security space. Tyler was the creator of the hugely popular defense site *Foxtrot Alpha* before developing *TWZ*, which he continues to lead as the Editor-In-Chief to this day.

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