>>13974347Yes, non plus ultra.
The talk about SR-72 is just L-M marketing violating the memory of Kelly Johnson in a desperate attempt of clouding the massive problems with F-35.
>>13974353>Your phone has more computing power than the ENTIRE WORLD had in 1969.I know. I have been in the SW and HW industry for years. And the thing is, what you write is the result of EVOLUTION, while the work up to 1970 was about technological revolutions. The Blackbird family was the
- first to use a major body made of titanium
- the first to reach Mach 3+ - how much faster than Mach 3.4 they never said
- the first to fly continuous supersonic, many hours continuously
- the first to use cooled fuel to use as heat sink
Today? Not so much. And this is a world wide problem, it just happens to be most visible in the US. We have entered an era of stagnation where the few small exceptions are heralded as the typical when in reality they are not.
