Engineering

Product

What’s your favorite product that you’re not a user of but admire from afar?

Yeah I've come to the conclusion that my answer is undoubtedly SR-71

Why:
- Operated at 85,000 ft, at over Mach 3 (~2100 mph)
- No SR-71 was ever shot down, because Mach 3
- 1 hour flight from SF to NYC
- A special titanium body out of it from scratch for it
- Absolutely bonkers

Yeah I've come to the conclusion that my answer is undoubtedly SR-71

Why:
- Operated at 85,000 ft, at over Mach 3 (~2100 mph)
- No SR-71 was ever shot down, because Mach 3
- 1 hour flight from SF to NYC
- A special titanium body out of it from scratch for it
- Absolutely bonkers

https://warpcast.com/jayme/0xba21812e

creating and destroying; flying cars, roc.camera, july.rocks

It was DESIGNED to leak fuel out of the body panels at top speed because it’s fucking that badass

Have you heard the idea that it was a ruse to distract for high end satellite tech?

They knew it was obsolete half way into making it but went ahead and yeah as a diversion