Who was more brilliant than this guy?

>>34319241

Nobody.

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>>34319241

>>34319241
I wonder what else he and Ben Rich secretly cooked up that still hasn't been declassified

>>34319265
gonna agree on this one

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>>34319241
>Designing expensive sacred cows instead of cheap effective workhorses.

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>>34319496
The U2 has been in service far longer than the A-4.

>>34319241
Ed Heinemann was a big genius too

Jas 39 gripen was following one black bird in the days

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>>34319241
couldnt have our visions of nuclear holocaust without pic related

>>34319265
and to think that we have failed him =/

>>34319545
how the fuck

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>>34319265
I get to drive by his legacy everyday

>>34323440
is that at 75% scale or 100%?

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>>34323465
It's a full scale Saturn V replica.

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>>34319241

>>34321801
It was a JA-37, and it was not "following" the SR-71 it managed to get a brief radar lock on it by going full speed then pulling up at full burner long enough to get the radar on target despite only being able to maintain a top speed of barely over Mach 2 and a ceiling of 60.000feet

This was of course only possible since the Viggen was waiting for the SR-71 to come the same route that it did every time.

>>34323440
UAH Aerospace major here. You can see it from campus.

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Burt Rutan

>>34323941
Not really, it was possible because Sweden had a solid ground radar system, and had enough time to intercept (from Visby).

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modern Henry Ford

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This guy or Von Neumann

>>34324613
Half assed software developer. That got lucky and then bought his way into companies getting government dosh

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>>34319545
A-4 is still in service in nation of the white people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_A-4AR_Fightinghawk

>>34323440
Hello fellow Huntsville bro.
>>34323465
That's a 100 % replica, and then there is an actual Saturn V in that long white building to the right.

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>>34319241

>>34324999
>got lucky
>govvie dosh
So every successful celebrity CEO ever.

>>34325268
nah, some schemed, lied, cheated, and stole their way up. like bill gates and steven jobs.

>>34319241
Read skunk works by Ben Rich
Youll cry when he recounts his death
I know I did

>>34323440
I would dryhump that thing if they let me

>>34319241
A sad video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFO--wzFfUs

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>>34319241
>Johnsonfags will defend this

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>>34325568
>when they wheel him out to the runway to witness the last flyby of the SR-71

>>34324296
nailed it

>>34323440
FYI that a much rarer A-12; not an SR-71.

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this man's influence on naval warfare and nuclear power can't be overstated

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>>34319241
this guy

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>was absolutely sure the C-130 was going to be a failure
>brilliant
nah.

Managed to take a class taught by one of the engineers who worked on pic related and the X-29 once and it's mind boggling how complicated aircraft design can get. He tried explaining to the class a NASA report he'd written and it just went over everyone's heads.

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>>34326445
>lead the team that designed and built the very first american jet fighter in 180 days
>not brilliant

>>34319241
>tfw when he my inspiration but I decided to become a mechanical engineer.

He was too early for his time, imagine what he would of made with todays technology. The errors from the work of his time were so laughable small compared to modern errors.

>>34326628
good managers don't necessarily mean good engineers

>>34326660
but he was also an excellent aerospace engineer?

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>>34325568
Will do.

FYI my OP was weapons-specific. If we are gonna talk about the epitomy of cheap and functional then it would probably be pic related.

>>34326632
Me too in an indirect way. I am a mechE in aerospace and I jog by the A-12 daily.

We are effectively retarded compared to those SW engineers.

>>34319241
>Who was more brilliant than this guy?

The Lord Thy God John Moses Browning.

>>34319265
But rockets are gay, they're just giant space penises.

>>34327352
>having a giant penis
>gay
Anon, I...

>>34327403
Sr-71 is better than rockets in every way possible, but i will admit that the man responsible for the saturn class rockets is a genius in the field of rocketry, also, having a giant penis is not gay, but admiring giant penises is gay.

>>34327352
Why is it you always identify things as penises anon? I think we need to talk to your momma

>>34326348
I can't wait until it's fully restored, it was sad that they let it get in such bad shape in the first place.

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>>34327083
>people still think kalashnikov invented the ak

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>>34327834

>>34327655
K pls educate.

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>>34327863

>>34327426
>Sr-71 is better than rockets in every way possible

Thus my OP.

>>34326353
and he is still hated by every nuke and submariner in the US navy.

>>34323440
god I wish I could've seen a Saturn V launch in person.
so fucking beautiful.
also - some time ago, I ran the math - the Saturn V, if ICBM'd (don't ask me why) could potentially orbit a ~400mt class bomb, or sub-orbitally throw a ~600mt class bomb, based on sheer payload weight.
wish I wrote the calculations down.

>>34326167
It's honestly a genius design. It's basically a better MiG-21, but the west never really had a use for such a limited-role aircraft.

>>34327951
>Mach 3
>RAM
>titanium construction
>that turbine


Seriously Kelley Johnson and his team were smoking DMT

>>34327909
>wish I wrote the calculations down.
You mean you did tgat shit in your head?
>No need to lie on the internet.

I wish I could see a Saturn V, or Energia near equivalent (with a safe distance).

Looking forward to future heavy lift designs and execution.

>>34327900
Do you want Soviet tier nuclear navy accidents and bitching liberals?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_submarine#Accidents

>>34327900
>and he is still hated by every nuke in the Navy

isn't hate a bit of a strong word? nukes seem to hate everyone and life in general due to their wretched existence but I bet they respect Rickover more than they do any non-nuke officer

>>34323426
It's filmed from the chase car which the U-2 needs because shit visibility

>>34319241


Ahhhh yes the Saucer dudes

"We now have the technology to take ET home"

-Ben Rich