What were the preferred pronouns of the SR 71 designers ?
—”What were the preferred pronouns of the SR 71 designers ?”
My guess; is a mostly self-selecting team of mostly males with short or no hair, and Mary Golda Ross...
“The nature of the work required immense skills, disruptive creativity, and intense focus on execution. Kelly’s team had superstars like Mary Golda Ross, who had helped fix flaws in the P-38 and became the first female Native American flight engineer. Each engineer on the team were talented, quirky, and mirrored the misfit profile of today’s developers. In the traditional era of the 40’s and 50’s though, they did not fit the ideal of model employees.”
https://www.teetee.us/skunk-works-hiring-the-outliers/
She moved to California in 1941 to seek work after the US joined World War II, on the advice of her father.[7]
Ross was hired as a mathematician by Lockheed in 1942. While there she began working on the effects of pressure on the Lockheed P-38 Lightning. The P-38 was one of the fastest airplanes designed at the time: it was the first military airplane to fly faster than 400 mph (640 km/h) in level flight.[9][10] Ross helped to solve numerous design issues involved with high speed flight and issues of aeroelasticity. Although Ross preferred working on topics surrounding interplanetary spaceflight, she later said that “If I had mentioned it in 1942, my credibility would have been questioned.”[11]
“Often at night there were four of us working until 11 p.m.,” she recalled later. “I was the pencil pusher, doing a lot of research. My state of the art tools were a slide rule and a Friden computer.”[6]
“...After the war, Lockheed sent her to UCLA for a professional certification in engineering. “She studied mathematics for modern engineering, aeronautics and missile and celestial mechanics.”[8] It was unusual for a company that hired a woman for work during the war to keep that woman once the war ended; “Gold” Ross continued to work for Lockheed.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Golda_Ross