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From: adam%rondo@rand.org (Adam Frankl)
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Subject: Re: SR-71 Blackbird question
Message-ID: <1990Oct8.030637.12403@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 8 Oct 90 03:06:37 GMT
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From: Adam Frankl <adam%rondo@rand.org>

In article <1990Oct2.235500.24130@cbnews.att.com> jumper@hobbes.ncsu.edu (Michael Lanham) writes:
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>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.

1970s ???  The really amazing thing was that it was designed in the late 50's
and early 60's.  The first flight was December 22, 1964.


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