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Old 05-05-2016, 08:47 AM
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Watch this one when you have 45 minutes. Best film online I could find. Touches everything, concept, building, testing, including getting it's metals thru Russia - in which is the reason why this plane was built - wow ! - to outrunning a missile from North Korea.....to...well, everything.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDgPXcydwow
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Booming heads of state, hilarious!
Miss the sonic booms, although they would scare the crap out of you at times
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Old 05-07-2016, 09:45 AM
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Originally Posted by sutphen 30
and all built w/ slide rulers and a pencil.plane is a marvel,even today.
Absolutely. I can't imagine the amount of engineering paper and pencil lead that went into it.
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