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Indeed. My office is on Kelly Johnson Drive (named in his memory) and I've known many Lockheed Skunk Works people over the years. I'd say no aliens, but really really good engineers.SR-71 still looks ahead of it's time, I reckon the aliens in area 51 helped Kelly Johnson
Oooh.
Yeah, the CORONA satellites; it still feels like a Rube Goldberg-ish operation to me. ^^;; Then again, there were weirder systems; the Lunar Orbiter series from the 60s used a film camera to photograph the moon, developed the film in the satellite, and scanned the developed film for transmission to Earth. https://www.inverse.com/science/lun...-for-planetary-science-more-than-50-years-ago
Heh. You can actually reach out and touch the one at the Kansas Cosmosphere.SR-71 still looks ahead of it's time, I reckon the aliens in area 51 helped Kelly Johnson
As you maybe know I have the Vivitar 28mm f2.0 Close Focus, the Komine made one which is kind of rare in Pentax K-mount and yet to try it on S5ii. I used it for flowers/close ups as a bokeh lens and it does have unique bokeh like an artist painted it.
In an earlier lifetime I had one of those careers that involved traveling all over the world, for months and occasionally years at a time - no, not military; show business - and if there was an air museum wherever I found myself, that's where you'd find me on my days off, especially if they had an SR-71 or YF-12 or any other variant of the Blackbird... If you ever get to the Frontiers of Flight Museum at Dallas (TX) Love Field, they've got the last surviving SR-71 flight trainer there. (no, I couldn't fit into it, although not for lack of trying.)SR-71 still looks ahead of it's time, I reckon the aliens in area 51 helped Kelly Johnson
That's about 45 minutes from my house. You should be there during hot-air balloon week; it's almost as grand as Albuquerque.
A B-25 story. Sadly my friend Charles Sperry just passed away, the grandson of the Sperry that invented aircraft instrumentation to fly blind in bad weather, and a founder of the company Sperry Gyroscope. One of the many stories Charles told, my favorite, was when he was a child in his grandfather's kitchen, early in WWII, and his grandfather was working at the kitchen table with uncle Jimmy. They had drawings and stuff all over the table. They were figuring out the best way to instrument a B-25 for night flight and bad weather flight. Uncle Jimmy was Jimmy Doolittle, who orchestrated to Doolittle Raid over Tokyo in April 1942, where B-25s flew the first air attack over Japan.
The main thing that made it non-Rube Goldberg is that it used the same reliable camera right out of the U-2 spy plane, so all of the back end work for film was in place. All they had to do was get the dammed film out of orbit.
Hah, a rival!
Kansas City was another central location for B-25 production, at the Fairfax Airport.
Wow.
Hah, I knew there was a reason I shot this...
