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information gatherer
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: out in the middle someplace
Posts: 208
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gotta love the SR-71/A-12.
For what it did, there still doesn't seem to be anything that does it better.
Although the ramjet drones actually took out one or two of the aircraft, IIRC. at that speed, the vertical stabilizers aren't THAT wide apart.
I have a little toy RC counter-rotating helicopter... and a couple of 30$ toy airplanes... and they are fun.
But something like that... it seems like it would be hard to third-person control a jet like that in a very small airspace envelope, within eyesight range.
Something that fast needs some range, and if un-manned, almost needs instrumentation, and augmented reality, virtual first person control from on-board cameras. ...But letting a craft like that roam around could potentially cause trouble for airspace regulations.
It sure does look cool on orbit, and with fly-bys though. and the modeling is first rate.
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