If you like X-Planes and in particular the Blackbird SR71 then you'll love these pictures over at SPLOID of how it was made [click]!
I wonder if it needed that many folk to make the SpaceX/ Golden Astronaut version! The scratchbiuld R2 just needed one! Kevin!
Favourite 'plane ever...if the conspiracy theorists are correct (and I don't think they are) in believing the Yanks were talking to Aliens in the 1950's...this is where the tech. went! We were everywhere else producing aircraft that were either giant fireworks with wings or spitfires with jet/rocket motors (technology wise), and along comes a totally new shape, which has fuel tanks that leak on the ground so they will fit tight at high altitude...nitrogen in the tires, pressurised to several atmospheres! Constant afterburners...and if we're allowed to see it now, what's still hidden!
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I wonder why they chose the Dyna Soar over the Blackbird for Project SWORD? I'll have to check but I'm sure it appeared in the original strip in SOLO comic. The Blackbird must have been more famous than the Dyna Soar in 1967. Or?
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