Tom Cruise's hot Mach 10 scramjet craft was inspired by the company's legendary Skunk Works' SR-72
A look at the fictional piloted version of the SR-72 Darkstar hypersonic plane in"Top Gun: Maverick."
To help director Joseph Kosinski and Paramount Pictures, Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works partnered up with the"Top Gun: Maverick" production team to engineer what might be an adaptation of their hypersonic SR-72 plane with a few modifications to make it look even cooler on the big screen as both a full-sized physical mock-up and an airborne CGI version. Lockheed Martin's logo even appears on the pilot's stick.
Taiclet revealed in a LinkedIn post that engineers at the legendary Skunk Works had"partnered with"Top Gun's" producers to bring cutting-edge, future forward technology to the big screen." Artists' conceptual renderings released over the past few years do appear to look suspiciously like"Maverick's" Darkstar and speculations and rumors have swarmed around it since the $170 million film went into pre-production way back in 2017.
There are certain differences between the SR-72 concept art and the Darkstar, one being the movie model having two inward-tilting tail fins instead of one. Another is the blind cockpit setup of the fictional Darkstar having no forward visibility. Skunk Works' actual SR-72 would be configured as an unpiloted aircraft, but there could be a demonstration plane with room for a single pilot. Also, the real jet being developed is engineered to max out at Mach 6, not Mach 10.
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