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quarter. It was a rare win. So Kelly approved my idea of painting the airplane black, and by the time our first prototype rolled out the airplane became known as the Blackbird. Our supplier, Titanium Metals Corporation, had only limited reserves of the precious alloy, so the CIA conducted a worldwide search and, using third parties and dummy
... See moreLeo Janos • Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years of Lockheed
Ditch the laptop. Ditch the Python scripts.
WarDragon Scanner: This ESP32 creates its own Wi-Fi AP, decodes Drone RID, and serves it directly to the DragonSync iOS app.
No dependencies. No nonsense. Just flash, connect, and hunt.
With help from @cemaxecuter.... See more
With Its First Flight Ever in 1964, the SR-71 Was the Most Impressive Plane of Its Time
popularmechanics.com
Kelly Johnson: The Swede Who Transformed American Air Power
nationalinterest.org
The resulting U-2 surveillance aircraft, designed by America’s most talented airplane designer, Kelly Johnson, was built in a supersecret area (the Skunk Works) at Lockheed’s sprawling Burbank, California, facility in 1955–56. Based originally on the Air Force’s F-104 but longer, lower, and lighter, with a wingspan of eighty feet, the U-2 was more
... See moreJean Edward Smith • Eisenhower in War and Peace
<--- Will never stop posting videos filmed by aerospace employees that weren't supposed to be public award🎖️ https://t.co/LgywyM5PQW
SpaceBasedFoxx.com
A new Russian UAV is apparently intended as a decoy and for reconnaissance of Ukrainian air defenses.
For use as a decoy it resembles a Shahed, but also has an analog FPV camera with a powerful 1.2 GHz video transmitter capable of a transmission range of greater than 50km. https://t.co/M1pRX7qrT9