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If this plane looked ugly, would anyone care that it is the fastest plane ever made?
by amichail 17y ago
If this plane looked ugly, would anyone care that it is the fastest plane ever made?
- hugh3 17y agoPossibly not. The X-15 (while arguably a rocket with wings rather than an aeroplane) was much faster and less pretty, and you won't find so many nine-year-olds with posters of it.
- stcredzero 17y agoPosters!? [starts Googling]
- jrockway 17y agoIt also never flew a real mission. The SR-71 was a real airplane that could take off, fly a mission, and land. The X-15 had to be ferried into space by another aircraft, then it flew around for a while, and then it could destroy part of itself, and finally land. Pretty or not, the SR-71 was a lot more practical.
- joe_bleau 17y agoNever flew a real mission? It was an experimental research tool. Or is Mach 6.72 not 'real' enough for you? It was carried aloft, not into space, by a B-52.
- jrockway 17y agoI'm just explaining why I think kids don't have posters of it on their walls. Experimental research plane? Yawn. Real plane? Awesome.
- mixmax 17y agoThere was a saying on the Lockheed Martin Skunkworks department where this plane was designed: "If she looks beautiful, she'll fly beautifully"