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Originally Posted by RF5BPilot
One of the designers of the SR-71 and now a lead designer/engineer at The Spaceship Company flew up to Seattle, bought my RF5B glider and flew it back to Mojave a couple of weeks ago. An interesting guy with interesting stories.
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Burt Rutan is the lead designer on SpaceShipTwo, isn't he? He is too young to be have been involved in the design of the SR-71 which was started way back in 1960. That was 54 years ago. Kelly Johnson was the lead designer. I would think anyone having a major role in designing the SR-71 would be in their 80's now....