An excellent multi person presentation on the Blackbird which still looks ahead of its time today but was from another planet in the mid sixties. I'm not into tech-porn but the Blackbird is beautiful and yet for me the obvious thought is imagine if we could have channelled this much genius and design into making the world a better place rather than a CIA plane that relied on Soviet Titanium (thus negating its very existence) while we gave them Ford factories that built trucks to shoot US Marines in Vietnam.
Bottom line is a lot of money rides on the backs of the people who put down their lives for an elite who really don't care all that much but don't mind having a technological edge and are prepared to keep a technocracy handcuffed to very nice GovCorp pensions and non disclosure agreements for life.
The plane looks like a different beast from every angle.
