SR-71--Now my Cobra feels Flaccid!

[lovehamr]

Originally Posted by olddog

PS doing the math 29 years before the mid 1980's puts you in the mid 1950's. I do not think the SR71 was even a wild thought in the designers mind.

Considering the first A12 flew in 1962, the fact they got the contract in 1959 and what I have read about Clarence J. "Kelly" Johnson's imagination I think you may have overstepped your BS grounds.

Steve
P.S.
From Habu.org:
"When the A-12s (and later the SR-71s) were first flown to their new remote base at Kadena AFB in Okinawa, the local people thought that this strange and somewhat wicked-looking airplane was shaped like the habu snake. They started calling it the habu airplane, and later just habu. Crews who flew the airplane were also called Habu, and the name came to be recognized with the blackbird program and even incorporated into the insignia worn by the crews on their uniforms."

I still remember references to it all over the island, even in concrete slabs miles from the base.