Скачать или смотреть How One Engineer's 'Impossible' Project Became the SR-71 Blackbird

May 1960. Francis Gary Powers' U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union, exposing America's vulnerability. The CIA needed something faster, higher, and seemingly impossible. Enter Kelly Johnson and the SR-71 Blackbird - the fastest jet ever built.This is the untold story of how one engineer defied conventional wisdom, bought titanium from the Soviet Union using fake pizza oven companies, and created an aircraft that could fly at Mach 3.2, outrun every missile, and never got shot down in 30+ years of service.

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