the lockheed sr-71 blackbird: designed using a pencil & slide-rule to look beautiful …

Okay, I know there are many better media clips of the SR-71 out there, but this near vintage clip puts a big smile on my face. Apart from the fantastic music track (Oxygene IV by Jean-Michel Jarre), the Mach 3+ Blackbird when it banks at 35 seconds into the clip, still looks so futuristic even today, even though it was desgned using a pencil, slide-rules & notebooks & first flew in he early 1960’s.

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