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In Ben Rich's book about the Skunkworks, one of the aircraft (U2? SR71?) was encountering high-altitude insect impacts on their windshields. Turns out they'd be
by tonyarkles 7y ago
In Ben Rich's book about the Skunkworks, one of the aircraft (U2? SR71?) was encountering high-altitude insect impacts on their windshields. Turns out they'd been lofted up there by nuclear tests.
- W-Stool 7y agoAbsolutely the best book, everyone here should read it.
- baxtr 7y agoWhy?
- baxtr 7y agoThat was a genuine question... I am really interested in knowing
- permatech 7y agoRead the book and tell us
- tim333 7y agoHave an Amazon review: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/customer-reviews/R3PX9NZPUHXBI9/ref=cm_cr_dp_d_rvw_ttl?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B00A2DIW3C https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/customer-reviews/R3PX9NZPUHXBI9/... Sounds pretty good if you like aircraft tech and the like
- tonyarkles 7y agoI think one of the things that still blows my mind is how quickly they went from concept to first flight on the U2 (18 months?). That's the kind of things a well-focused, finely-tuned, well-funded, "cut the bullshit" engineering organization can accomplish.
- mathattack 7y agoGreat book. And this was my guess for the ISS too.