[Gunslingr3]

So long as we are limited by the laws of physics as we know it within the Earth’s atmosphere, it will never be bested.

It was, quite simply, the most perfect flying craft humans will ever make until there is a fundamental change in physics and our use thereof.

Kelly Johnson was an amazing designer, but he had to use a slide rule. We haven't been allowed to see what they have come up with since, but I'm doubtful the SR-71 had no actual successor.

[freedumb2003]

>> but I’m doubtful the SR-71 had no actual successor.<<

I think physics limits what could be next.

Just for the heck of it, I found this: http://www.strategypage.com/humor/articles/funny_flight_stories.asp

:)

[lentulusgracchus]

Kelly Johnson was an amazing designer, but he had to use a slide rule.

What -- no $25,000 workstation full of CAD-CAM software and Chinese chipsets? </s>

That cat needs his own statue in the Smithsonian. Titanium, of course.