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Kelly Johnson, who led the project to build the Blackbird, disagrees. "All of us had been trained by Kelly Johnson and believed fanatically in his insistence th
by combatentropy 8y ago
Kelly Johnson, who led the project to build the Blackbird, disagrees. "All of us had been trained by Kelly Johnson and believed fanatically in his insistence that an airplane that looked beautiful would fly the same way." --- Ben Rich, Skunk Works
This quote opens an essay on beauty by Paul Graham, http://www.paulgraham.com/taste.html http://www.paulgraham.com/taste.html
- js2 8y agoFunction follows form?
- ReptileMan 8y agoThey merge at a point. The moment they merge you have achieved Nir... Unix ideal.
- mixmastamyk 8y agoBelieve he also had to be convinced by Rich to support the boxy F-117A.
- Teknoman117 8y agoThe F-117 was mostly a limitation of computing technologies at the time. We (apparently) didn't have the horsepower to model radar hitting curved surfaces, so the boxy plane came as a result of the limitations of the modelling system.