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<blockquote data-quote="WildRose" data-source="post: 1125196" data-attributes="member: 30902"><p>Yep, hard to believe this was designed on paper by guys with coke bottle horn rimmed glasses and the calculations done on a slide rule.</p><p></p><p>Pocket protectors and belt mounted slide rule cases were the mark of the brains of that day!</p><p></p><p>It's hard to even call it a plane because it was literally designed to fly on the edge of space and maxed I think at a paltry mach 1.2 till it got past 60k feet because pushing it faster in the thicker air even exceeded the temperature safe range for titanium.</p><p></p><p>If I remember correctly it was the SR71 in fact that really brought titanium metallurgy and machining into the real world initially.</p><p></p><p>I had an uncle and cousin who both worked on it's development and the cousin was instrumental in the stealth program as well. They and their colleagues pretty well invented the field of "Materials Science".</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="WildRose, post: 1125196, member: 30902"] Yep, hard to believe this was designed on paper by guys with coke bottle horn rimmed glasses and the calculations done on a slide rule. Pocket protectors and belt mounted slide rule cases were the mark of the brains of that day! It's hard to even call it a plane because it was literally designed to fly on the edge of space and maxed I think at a paltry mach 1.2 till it got past 60k feet because pushing it faster in the thicker air even exceeded the temperature safe range for titanium. If I remember correctly it was the SR71 in fact that really brought titanium metallurgy and machining into the real world initially. I had an uncle and cousin who both worked on it's development and the cousin was instrumental in the stealth program as well. They and their colleagues pretty well invented the field of "Materials Science". [/QUOTE]
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