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RE: Some aircraft drawings and paintings
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BarkellWH
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 RE: Some aircraft drawings and paintings (in reply to estebanana)
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It was designed by Kelly Johnson, probably the greatest unknown to general public American mechanical designer who ever lived.
The United States was damned fortunate to have the likes of Kelly Johnson and his Lockheed "Skunk Works" developing reconnaisance aircraft like the U-2, the A-12, and finally the magnificent, menacing SR-71. There was nothing like them at the time, and there never will be again, as satellite imagery has completely overtaken them since the mid 1990s. The interesting thing about today's ISR (Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaisance) is we have great capability in detecting potentially hostile missile complexes and the like through satellite imagery, as well as real-time battlefield imagery via reconnaisance drones. Both macro and micro ISR, so to speak.
Bill
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Date Apr. 6 2018 20:16:36
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Richard Jernigan
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From: Austin, Texas USA
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RE: Some aircraft drawings and paintings (in reply to BarkellWH)
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The U-2 and the SR-71 played important roles in the Cold War.
Prior to the operational debut of the U-2 the USA had no reliable information on Soviet strategic missile numbers. Exaggerated estimates were bandied about by people lobbying for increases in the military budget. Eisenhower was more focused on domestic infrastructure projects like the Interstate Highway system.
Once the U-2 was operational, Eisenhower had verifiable numbers to counter the military budget hawks. He commented, "I pity the poor fellow who will sit in this chair and not know as much about the military as I do."
At the Udvar-Hazy Center, the branch of the Air and Space Museum at Dulles Airport, you enter in a wide marble floored hallway that turns out to be on the second floor. The hallway ends at a balcony that overlooks the high ceilinged display floor. Front and center is an SR-71, which dominates the scene--even though the Space Shuttle Enterprise is right behind it.
Stephen's cards with airplane silhouettes remind me of the "Plane Spotter" cards of WW II. There was a volunteer organization of people trained to identify enemy aircraft, in the event of an attack on the USA mainland. They were trained on stacks of cards about the size of a normal playing card deck. The cards contained silhouettes of enemy aircraft. As a seven-year old I was required to identify all the planes in the deck, in order to be allowed to play with the "big boys"--my brother's ten- and eleven-year old contemporaries.
There was also a deck of U.S. and allied aircraft.
An unexpected treat at the Udvar-Hazy center was an example of a Ryan open cockpit, low-wing monoplane. Henry Matyszek owned one, and took me flying in it a few times while I was a university student. Henry was a mechanic who had worked for Dad and "Uncle" Bob before WW II at the East End Airport in San Antonio, at their Piper dealership and flying school.
RNJ
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