It is taking at least 8 years to design and build the prototype replacement of the SR-71 an airplane that was designed, built, tested and activated in about 5 years using sliderules, paper and pencil.
No. We couldn’t do what we did in 1969 again today.
“It is taking at least 8 years to design and build the prototype replacement of the SR-71 an airplane that was designed, built, tested and activated in about 5 years using sliderules, paper and pencil.
No. We couldn’t do what we did in 1969 again today.“
I read an article many years ago where Kelly Johnson himself lamented that the US could not build the SR-71 anymore due to a lack of a sufficiently large forge for the titanium parts.
It is taking at least 8 years to design and build the prototype replacement of the SR-71 an airplane that was designed, built, tested and activated in about 5 years using sliderules, paper and pencil.”
Well there is a lot of truth to what you say, supersonic flight is a tricky, tricky thing to master and the margins for error are slim.