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BlackBird · 4145 days ago · link · · parent · post: This is the successor to the SR-71 Blackbird, and it is gorgeous
Haven't heard of that book before, thanks! I think I'll be adding that to the Xmas wish list. Such amazing designs and almost unfathomable to think they were done with ingenuity and slide rules. As awesome as some of today's more modern tech and design is, my mind is not boggled/amazed by designs such as the SR-71 and how there was no computer power to fall back upon. Not to discredit the use of such tech, but it's more amazing that they designed and built them successfully without the aid of CAD or other modernised computer modelling/testing tech.