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Re:The SR-71 Spy Plane Was So Fast, It Outran Every Missile ... by combatentropy on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @03:33PM (#19505015)
Kelly Johnson, who led the project to build the Blackbird, disagrees. "All of us had been trained by Kelly Johnson and believed fanatically in his insistence that an airplane that looked beautiful would fly the same way." --- Ben Rich, Skunk Works

This quote opens an essay on beauty by Paul Graham, http://www.paulgraham.com/taste.html

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Re:The SR-71 Spy Plane Was So Fast, It Outran Every Missile ... by mixmastamyk on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @04:15PM (#19505529)
Believe he also had to be convinced by Rich to support the boxy F-117A.
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Re:The SR-71 Spy Plane Was So Fast, It Outran Every Missile ... by Teknoman117 on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @04:30PM (#19505696)
The F-117 was mostly a limitation of computing technologies at the time. We (apparently) didn't have the horsepower to model radar hitting curved surfaces, so the boxy plane came as a result of the limitations of the modelling system.
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Re:The SR-71 Spy Plane Was So Fast, It Outran Every Missile ... by js2 on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @03:58PM (#19505317)
Function follows form?
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Re:The SR-71 Spy Plane Was So Fast, It Outran Every Missile ... by ReptileMan on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @04:30PM (#19505698)
They merge at a point. The moment they merge you have achieved Nir... Unix ideal.
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