And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Wednesday, March 11, 2026
Ten A-12 Archangels await their missions at Area 51 in 1963
...and no other country has even attempted to design or build anything like them, even though these machines were designed and built well before CAD systems came online.
Even if the USSR built an equivalent they would not have the foreign airbases and aerial tanker fleet that allowed the SR71 to go anywhere it wanted. The USSR chose to build photo reconnaissance satellites instead of aircraft. Al_in_Ottawa
63 years ago, with interest and inflation taxpayers are probably still paying for them
ReplyDeleteDuh, it's all part of the debt that'll never be paid.
DeleteYou're paying it daily via inflation, that 1963 dollar is valued at nearly $11 today. Thank a 70 yo voter for that.
ReplyDelete...and no other country has even attempted to design or build anything like them, even though these machines were designed and built well before CAD systems came online.
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Even if the USSR built an equivalent they would not have the foreign airbases and aerial tanker fleet that allowed the SR71 to go anywhere it wanted. The USSR chose to build photo reconnaissance satellites instead of aircraft.
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Second one from the bottom is a trainer. Note the second cockpit bumped out behind the forward one.
ReplyDeleteKelly Johnson at his best!
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