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The SR-71 should be on this list. <2 years from idea to one of the most remarkable aircraft ever built. Also quite fast :)
by savrajsingh 7y ago
The SR-71 should be on this list. <2 years from idea to one of the most remarkable aircraft ever built. Also quite fast :)
- dewarrn1 7y agoObligatory SR-71 story about going fast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AyHH9G9et0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AyHH9G9et0
- sneak 7y agoFast for fifty years ago, maybe. I wish they’d tell us about the cool stuff they built in the 80s or 90s.
- kortilla 7y agoWell fast aircraft sort of lost their purpose once satellites got good, so it wouldn’t surprise me to find out they stopped caring about manned, fast aircraft with the SR-71.
- sneak 7y agoOkay, what cool hypersonic suborbital drones do they have? Are any satellite-launched?
- amdavidson 7y agoThey don't and they're not. Look at the defense allocations for basic research into hypersonic capable materials to prove that they are still years away the most basic deployment and once the research is done, there is no supply base to make the materials (FA8650-20-S-5003)
- Cougher 7y ago"Fast for fifty years ago . . ." How many aircraft today can fly horizontally over 2,000 mph? ". . . maybe." It may have been fast 50 years ago?