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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

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I hope you’ve gotten to see one IRL. They’re beautiful!

Believer, husband, dad, optimist // Strategy & design at Crema // Expert dabbler // Steward of /pony /midwest /aethletics tylerhilker.com

“I know what a plane looks like, big whoop”

*Proceeds to walk-and-gawk for an hour straight*

It’s a plane unlike any other plane. Almost everything is different in interesting ways. All that…AND knowing what it can do. Breathtaking.

It’s a… flying two story black awning/roof with massive engines is what it feels like up close if I were to describe it

Beautiful machines

Surprisingly massive as well, hard to understand by a picture how ginormous they are IRL