What Made the SR-71 Blackbird Such a Badass Plane (2015)

Re:What Made the SR-71 Blackbird Such a Badass Plane (2015) by Terr_ on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @05:28PM (#15752220)

> the armed forces will completely ignore data on flight characteristics due to politics

There's a comedy/dramatized-history called "The Pentagon Wars" starring Cary Elwes, following the development of the Bradley Fighting Vehicle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXQ2lO3ieBA

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Re:What Made the SR-71 Blackbird Such a Badass Plane (2015) by ProAm on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @05:37PM (#15752276)

Ill watch this later. They talk about testing the Bradley in the book and how they pretty much fudged all the tests to get it into service even though people knew it would be a tomb for soldiers if they ever went to war in it.

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Re:What Made the SR-71 Blackbird Such a Badass Plane (2015) by josephcooney on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @07:25AM (#15756239)

This is hilarious.

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Re:What Made the SR-71 Blackbird Such a Badass Plane (2015) by Terr_ on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @04:54PM (#15761040)

I find it's applicable to some software projects as well.

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Re:What Made the SR-71 Blackbird Such a Badass Plane (2015) by josephcooney on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @05:06PM (#15761115)

Indeed. I was thinking exactly the same thing.

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