Well, you can’t hack the stars. Amazing that thing could pick out enough stars to know exactly where it was... in daylight... on the ground. One other critical bit from those planes was the celestial navigation camera. That technology is still in use if you're worried about gps crapping out...
Sent from my iPad cLyDe, That was the Angels 30 view answer... Dr. N nailed it.
Clarence (Kelly) Johnson Who also designed: The Electra The Connie The Neptune The bleed-air blimp (gotta be the the most ubiquitous, long lived transport In history C-130) U2 P-80/F-80 Starfighter Kingfisher (faster than SR-71) Loadstar/Ventura F-94 (Starfire??) Started the F-117A, finished by Ben Rich
And I’m sure I forgot some others. Guys, jump in if you know.
As to Doug’s mention of the Clock... its covered in one of the many books I have on the A-12/SR-71 family. It was dead solid reliable. Think back to the 50s and 60s cars and how many reliable car clocks there were... Zero.
Both P-38 and SR71 are made by Lockheed
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I met this collector guy on eBay. He was the last test pilot for the B-1. He was selling an SR71 rudder. Reasonably priced but it wouldn’t fit in my garage - - - or on my honorable wife Terri’s “That’s OK – boys will be boys” list. The 308 fits there as well as my TAG F1 engine. This fellow I met has a collection of P-38 parts. Early p-38’s had a habit of destroying themselves in a dive. Bad for morale. <image003.jpg> Onward DOUG Don’t know about that Scars are tattoos with better stories! ![]() When you're out of F-4's you're out of fighters! Clyde pontificates “Hopefully it [collision with earth] will be in an un populated area like the mountains . . . “ Ow. Chilling thot tho – I heard from a fellow who lives in Lancaster, CA, looks for old aircraft wrecks for a hobby (back to pre-WW II) that should your plane go down – someone in your family or you are responsible for cleaning up the site. Comments? Factual? DOUG
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