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Posted: 07 May 2023, 17:49

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Posted: 08 May 2023, 11:23

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Posted: 08 May 2023, 12:18

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Another OWT bites the dust.

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Posted: 08 May 2023, 16:59

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Just another amazing thing that Kelly's Skunk Works figured out that nobody had done before.

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Posted: 08 May 2023, 20:33

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It seems like the only logical situation. Why constrain the mission with admin fuel consumption.

I still marvel every time I examine an SR-71 at what a POS it appears to be.
In some places it looks like a corrugated tin high-school project.

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Posted: 08 May 2023, 21:34

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It’s incredible it was designed with a slide rule.

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