Oxcart/SR-71 - History as indictment of today's aerospace industry?

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syscom3

syscom3

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"Could the modern US aerospace industry build an aircraft today that is as ambitious as the A-12 Oxcart/SR-71 was for its time? Could the industry build an aircraft today that could beat the performance of the CIA's Oxcart and the Air Force's Blackbird?"
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This video clip is 90 minutes long, but very interesting.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2ltrvY3O1w
 
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