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

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Start date Oct 7, 2010

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Oct 7, 2010

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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?"

This video clip is 90 minutes long, but very interesting.

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

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