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From: jtchew@csa2.lbl.gov (JOSEPH T CHEW)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: SR-71 Blackbird question
Summary: Even more amazing: late-50s, not 70s
Message-ID: <1990Oct4.012422.11647@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 4 Oct 90 01:24:22 GMT
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From: jtchew@csa2.lbl.gov (JOSEPH T CHEW)
In article <1990Oct2.235500.24130@cbnews.att.com>, jumper@hobbes.ncsu.edu 
(Michael Lanham) writes...

>The most incredible thing to remember about the Blackbird is that is was
>designed and built by Johnson at Lockheed's sSkunkwork back in the 1970s.
>The plane's design is twenty years old, still state of the art, and still
>the fastest plane made.

Even more of a tribute to Johnson et al: actually, it's very-late-FIFTIES 
technology in an early-60s design.  I believe the first public demo flight 
was in 1964.  Depending on which "Aurora" rumors you believe, it's still the
fastest, highest-flying plane around.

>Here's to the SR-71 Blackbird, one of the most beautiful planes around...

Worthy heir to the P-38, F-104, and U-2. A pattern begins to emerge...

--Joe
"Just another personal opinion from the People's Republic of Berkeley"