Thread 507314904

What the FUCK happened?

Satellites

pajeets

>>507314952
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITLlMH8MWTU

I guess, but why give up the badass planes?

I know I always thought those were the sickest, future like. We went backwards and I think, that was because the USA is too negrofied.

>>507314904 (OP)
Actually that’s 1950s tech

It had a very specific purpose. We don't need aircraft that fly fast enough to shred themselves apart anymore.

>>507314904 (OP)
>What the FUCK happened

Probably improvised so much that new crafts are hidden from public. See joe rogan podcast with Jesse Michels

>>507315244
We will when we visit Jupiter.

>>507314904 (OP)

we peaked. Then, like modern society, we got tired of tried and true methods and started experimenting.

>>507314904 (OP)
>using military technology to ask what the fuck happened
you have some learning to do

>>507315107
We actually went way forward and put satellites into orbit to take pics of soviet bullshit instead of a gay, leaky plane

>>507314904 (OP)
Big cocks in your mouth happened gay nigger cuck

>>507314904 (OP)
Its expensive as fuck to operate

>>507315463
this actually

the soviet union collapsed and the nearest peer competitor is only now just getting caught up to decades old tech. the pressure is back on. but can the us shake off decades of stagnation and regain their competitive spirit? or will they rot in irrational decadent values like dei and esg at the expense of true progress?

>>507315660
I miss the Cold War. It brought out the best in us. Humint is a lost art.

We in the west got tech which will hard to mimick, boasting is for competition

>>507314904 (OP)
Jews.

You cant handle the truth

*Sunglasses emoji*

>>507314904 (OP)
run out if kidnapped natsee scientists

>>507314904 (OP)
First mission was to defend pissrael. Look it up if you don't believe me.

>>507314904 (OP)
VIDEO GAMES AND CELL PHONES. INSTEAD OF AUTISTIC VIRGINS DESIGNING USEFUL SHIT, THEY NOW FOCUS ON MAKING OR PLAYING VIDEO GAMES, SMART PHONE APPS AND CONSUMING PORN.

WE ARE FUCKED. NERDS NOW HAVE LOWER TEST LEVELS AS WELL, SO THEY ARE NOT INTERSTED IN WEAPONS.

>>507314904 (OP)
High IQ white men fizzled out. Video games did a number on us.

>>507314904 (OP)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZScVFtKa-f8

>>507314904 (OP)
Strapping rockets to a cockpit isn't actually that technologically advanced

>>507314904 (OP)
It's a spy plane. Now we just do all of our spying from space. Satellites just move over an area, snap some photos, and send them to the Pentagon within seconds. Believe it or not, this sexy piece of American made machinery is obsolete.

>>507314904 (OP)
no competition
also, you make something public and it gives your potential compeditors information

in 1960 humanity managed to digitize themselves and create an artificial heaven and hell as they filled in a technological gaps left behind from the hyper war.
This "life" is currently in the hell designated simulation. True humanity in 1960 had a technological state that would be equivalent to the year 2400 at this current simulations level of progression.

>>507314904 (OP)
It got replaced by other dark projects, simple as.

maybe the ayys took their saucer back sometime in the 60s

>>507314904 (OP)
We still have stuff like this, but the Chinese are watching and we're not showing our hand until we're raining down on their cities with hypersonic weapons from sub-orbital aircraft

Our eyes can open anything. Its called
>not required

>>507316656
It not rockets its a really cool supersonic variable ramjet which doesn't exist any more because >>507316532

>>507316843
You niggers couldn't beat the Houthis

>>507314904 (OP)
Nixon took us off the gold standard and the jews asset stripped the country.

Orbs

Modern military tech is obviously extremely classified and you won't be able to find many pictures. Here's a little bit that is public knowledge though:

KH (Keyhole) Series – Reconnaissance (USA)
>KH-11 (“Crystal”/“Kennan”):
>Launched since the 1970s; still in use in upgraded forms.
>Rumored to resemble the Hubble Space Telescope, as both were built by Lockheed and have similar optical systems.
>Approximate size: ~15 meters long, with large aperture optical lenses.
>No official photos, but artistic renders and declassified diagrams show a long cylindrical body with solar panels.

Lacrosse / Onyx – Radar Imaging (USA)
>Uses synthetic aperture radar to see through clouds and darkness.
>Declassified photos show a boxy satellite with large radar panels.
>Likely ~15 tons with large side-facing antennas.

Mentor (Advanced Orion) – Signals Intelligence (USA)
>Enormous geostationary SIGINT satellites.
>Estimated to be the largest non-space station satellites ever built (~20,000 kg).
>Believed to have huge dish antennas for intercepting radio and satellite communications.

>>507314904 (OP)
>what happened

>>507314904 (OP)
Operation paperclip.
Then they retired.

>>507314904 (OP)
Well just like that was a secret in the 60s there's insane secret shit today you don't know about.

>>507314904 (OP)
SR-71 and Lockheed U-2 were meme planes.

>>507314943
fpbp

>>507314904 (OP)
>What the FUCK happened?
The sex, drugs and rock-n-roll psyop.

Turn on, tune in, drop out

Diversity and participation medal culture.

Schools these days spend their whole time trying to make sure everyone gets a C instead of encouraging the smart kids to reach their full potential. Smart kids achieving something would make the thickos feel bad.

>>507314904 (OP)
People are getting dumber, nations poorer, military's weaker. America is particularly bad because there's like a 100%-1000% upcharge on anything that goes through the military industrial complex.
>ask for a 50k drone they give you a 41 million dollar drone
>ask for a cheap truck that uses 90% off the shelf parts that retails for 25k and they give you one that costs 125k
>repeatedly keep trying to make the same useless light tank with a 105mm gun because some general who is going to get a job in military industrial complex after he retires says it's needed
It goes on and on. There's a lot of money finding it's way into some deep pockets and not being used to actually produce anything. Just be like Canada and don't spend anything.

>>507314904 (OP)
Disregard Experienced Individual became the standard policy

>>507314904 (OP)
breakaway civilization went to mars

>>507314904 (OP)

>What the FUCK happened?

Advanced rocketry mogging anything at altitudes over 100m.

>America then
>can make a space-class jet
>America now
>planes falling apart in the air
Tragic watching a superpooper fall like this.

>>507315035
They didn't give up badass planes. They just stopped declassifying them.

NAZISM DIED AND ROCKET SCIENCE WITH IT

>>507314904 (OP)
Doesn't matter how high or how fast you fly, missiles are going to get you.
You either have to be stealthy or have sophisticated ECM to be safe over enemy territory.

>>507314904 (OP)
the civil rights act and immigration reform

>>507318935
The Aryan travels to strange lands and conquers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDNupK1RkdY

>>507315244
Not yet.

>>507316843
What's point of having advanced weapons if you keep them secret?
(Soviets were secretive like that before WW2 and it cost them. Hitler later said that if he had known about T-34s and KV-1s and LaGG-1s and MiG-3s he would never have attacked. This is why USSR/Russia since WW2 always displays its new weapons.)

>>507314904 (OP)
German tech

>>507314904 (OP)
>What the FUCK happened?
All those paperclip Nazi's and old stock Americans retired, and the jews made sure it didn't happen again

>>507318878
thats just an 117

>>507314904 (OP)
Jews killed the Nazis then turned everything gay and female

>>507317523
what are those two weird planes on the right?
is the white and blue one truly asymmetrical or is it just the paint job?

All of our Nazi scientists died. All wr have are jeets

>>507321687
how about doing something by yourself instead of relying on nazis and jeets?

>>507314904 (OP)
this plane leaks fuel like crazy by design when on the ground. while its leaking fuel you have to bring in two blown racecar engines to jump start the plane

>>507316493
>Helping the juden create more weapons to kill goys
Sure thing rabbi!

>>507317054
Kek

>>507314904 (OP)
soviet threat went away

>>507314904 (OP)
>>507315131
These things are so slick. Hard to believe they're that old. Those look like they belong in the 90s. Can't imagine what the military has under wraps today.

>>507320698

Interesting

>>507314904 (OP)

nazi scientists dying out

>>507315131
There's no way we could have gone from the Wright brothers to this in just five decades without assistance. No way.

>>507322989
>Can't imagine what the military has under wraps today.
NOTHING because National Socialist scientists and engineers are long dead, and jews have filled the entire world with subhuman 75iq shitskins

>>507322989
>Can't imagine what the military has under wraps today.
lol, shitskin USA is not White Men USA anymore.

>>507314904 (OP)
They got better at keeping secrets.

>>507323134
>doubting the creative power of proud Aryans
Kikes really did a number on all of us. Fuck this world.

>>507314943
Correct unfortunately. The blackbird is so cool

>>507323199
A German saying this to an American, you’re copy trying to is going down the same path, of something doesn’t change or without divine intervention caliphates will be established across parts of Europe

>>507314904 (OP)
we found the limits of material science, we cant do any better, simple as that.

>>507321563
The white and blue is an F16XL and the other is

>>507314904 (OP)
moved on to ufo tech that every goverment on earth agrees to keep secret for some reason

>>507324507
Based stroke poster.

>>507315299
>joe rogan podcast
no thanks

>>507323202
/muttthread

>>507314904 (OP)
Social media

>>507314904 (OP)
>What the FUCK happened?
OHS. They don't want tech that gives 20 mechanics cancer a year servicing them anymore.

>>507323199
>>507323154
Brownoids mainly fill non-critical roles. Something tells me the number of brown people working in America's deep underground military bases is less than 1% of their population. Maybe a handful of Indian prodigies and extremely stern, loyal, disciplined black security officers, but that's it.

Your body is a meatcube and your meatcube is a fighter jet.

>>507323202
Yeah its sad

>>507323037
>upper photo smells like cool after-shave
>lower photo smells like stank and blood

>>507316077
This anon is correct.

>>507315299
>jew rogan the glownigger assett show
Ill pass.

>>507314943
Fpbp

>>507314904 (OP)
Space.
also cold war ends, USA gets the world and decides to only develop useless weapons to kill people on third world countries. so no more "wunderwaffen"

>>507314904 (OP)
Women, negroids, and immigrants

>>507317374
this.

>>507316493
Is that Vaush?

>>507314904 (OP)
same reason we'll never get to space

>>507314904 (OP)
A factor that people don't talk about much is brain drain from the defense/aviation industry and other engineering fields into software because it pays better and has perks like remote work.
There are very few top brains nowadays going into the fields that were big in the 1960s, aside from those who feel passionate enough about it to forego all the benefits other industries have.
Even top physicists and mathematicians nowadays move to shit like quant finance instead of doing research. A massive part of the brainpower that would have worked on advancing humanity is being spent instead on things that make a shit load of money by exploiting the system and appealing to the most reptilian part of the brain.

If a plane has any kind of interesting mission, by the time you learn of its existence, it will have been operational for ~ 10 years. We didn't stop making scary fun aircraft. You just don't know about them yet.

>>507314904 (OP)
>what happen?
thats for them to know and you not to find out.
>>507315463
assuming it was only used for recon

>>507315660
who said anything about stagnation? pseud.

>>507332190
Finance is a massive issue here.
The brain drain from other sectors into finance in the last few decades has been absolutely colossal its consequences to be felt for generations to come.

>>507323045
this.
competency crisis is a thing.

>>507321160
It really isn't.

>>507314904 (OP)
((()))

>>507318371
you fell for it.

>>507332784
it's worse then
>meme pizza slice with wheels vs. ufo the size of a city vs. teleporting 3m tall negro who will beat you up with your own gun
>who will win

>>507314904 (OP)
This is the coolest fly thing ever created

>>507334026
Nope, you should know better

>>507314904 (OP)
Same reason you can’t fly from Paris to new York in 2hours.

Jews ruined everything, Boomers got rich off of it and then soothed their guilt by importing, worshiping and facilitating niggers and every other brown across the globe.

Take the Concorde. One crash during its entire service life due to debris on runway, not pilot or aircraft at fault.

2 hours to cross the Atlantic.

Compare that to pajeet Boeing.

>>507314904 (OP)
they stopped letting white men do all the work

>>507314904 (OP)
It's crazy what white man can do, this plane is like W40k where in Horus Heresy timeline humans had better technology than what Imperium of Man have 10000 years later.

>>507314943
Satellites still haven't reached the same capability as one of these, it's just cheaper. You could have one of them doing runs in a place you needed quick.
Keep in mind the U-2 is still in service

>>507314904 (OP)
Greada treaties happened. Just like Nazi scientists, the Cold War superpowers signed deals with ayys for tech. Governments know they're bad and parasites sitting at the top of the food chain, harvesting us, but they still make deals with them.

>>507316843
Remember that 20 meter meteorite that actually struck russia about 15 years ago? I remember footage of some sort of bolt hitting it, after which it fractured and only meteorite debris struck the ground. Putin said they could strike threaths from outer space with conventinal weapons, "and by other non-conventional means".

You can bet your ass all sorts of exotic weaponry lies dorment deep within these underground facilitites - the only problem is ofc, once you use them the cat is out of the bag.

>>507314904 (OP)
>>507315035
>>507315331
>>507315818
>>507320421
the SR-71 would expand as it heated up with speed
all the little spots where fuel could not leak through are now gushing like a sieve
this problem was never solved that is why the new planes put all their points into stealth, and the idea that we will have people going mach 3 at 90k feet is just never gonna happen

>>507335422
Fuel leaks from the SR-71 stopped when it heated up. It leaked almost exclusively on the tarmac

>>507335095
unfortunately the U-2 is being retired next year, probably because the landings are so tedious

>>507316656
They're jet engines, dingus. Freaking huge and powerful ones.

>>507314943
AHAHAHAHA you made my day

>>507335598
it was both. there was sealant put in before it ever flew to stop the leaks and the high speed and temperature melted it away

>>507314904 (OP)
>What happened
the 1970s

>>507314904 (OP)
Cold war over, technological advancements, and widespread incompetence

>>507324634
Are you ok anon?

>>507314904 (OP)
Jewish engineers happened since then.
It takes a dream and imagination to make the Blackbird or Concorde happen.
Jews have neither. Ergo nobody's engineering this shit in real life.
Plus the red tape. The Navy Air services and the Airforce have hard targets and requirements that must be met and are very restrictive, but at home, in the realm of KSP with FAR and procedural wings, and in the realm of Flyout, any shape with any amount of power of engines and ordnance is possible.

>>507332341
I don't know that I would call the SR-71 mission interesting. All it did was fly fast and high in a straight line and take pictures. Flying it must have been boring as hell.

>>507314904 (OP)
>What the FUCK happened?
The British royals thru their Masonic lodges (yes, the grand master is always a royal) pulled the plug on innovation and technology.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Grand_Lodge_of_England

>>507335395
Lt. Colonel Thomas Bearded had talked about direct-energy weaponry using longitudinal scalar waves ever since observing the tech being used by the Soviet Union.
It's all over youtube. The kikes keep a lid on it because they can exploit their own DE-weapons against their own people if nobody knows they have them.

>>507336582
Bearden*

>>507314904 (OP)
Technology has been purposefully suppressed after free energy was discovered in the 1960s. Entire fields of technology are missing in action, having their proprietors killed.

Here's the funny part which you may be able to notice: entertainment and distraction technology has marched forward relentlessly. Somehow we can't invent any better materials, energy tech, or etc though

>>507336060
>Jewish engineers happened since then.
Not quite.
The British Masonic grand master (this position is always held by a royal) gave the order to his minions (subordinate masons in position of power, academy and science which also includes kikes) to halt any development, research and implementation of technology and innovation.

>>507336965
>to halt any development, research and implementation of technology and innovation.
>PCs, Smartphones, internet, wifi
what?

>>507328736
>hurr durr we have super sekrit stuff trust me
fuck off, we have jews shoving gays niggers and women down our throat and nobody wants to participate in society anymore. all our government does now is print money and give it to their banker friends.

>>507314904 (OP)
I read somewhere that the thing is basically a fuel tank shaped like a plane.

>>507336843
>Technology has been purposefully suppressed after free energy was discovered in the 1960s
Yes, check out who’s the grand master of United Grand Lodge of England (which also controls American lodges, which controls all of academia in US) since 1967 and everything will make sense.

>>507337094
>PCs, Smartphones, internet, wifi
These were allowed because they serve a dual purpose - mass surveillance of cattle goys.

>>507336965
Try to make your deflections sound less schizo, and more plausible, Yehuda.

>>507337664
so they allowed this technology to control cattle but did not allow military technology to control cattle?

>>507332489
>Recon only
That’s all it could do. There’s a reason its only defense was to go faster. Weapon systems add payload. A plane with minimum weight, giant engines and targeting optics is basically a missle.

>>507337923
And carrying the weapons would've meant a properly limited internal bay that made it useless, and if they did implement an internal bay the little microscopic gaps between the bay doors would cause a big thermal problem at speed, plus the drag.

>>507314904 (OP)
The esthetics? or the tech? The tech is way outdated, everything inside that plane fits into a suitcase that's orbiting the planet taking photos of everything.

But yes, there hasn't been a cooler looking plane. Or cars, really, since the 1960s.

The academia (its ranks and structure) was purposely modeled after Masonic lodges for control.
The academia is controlled by Masonic structures which are controlled by their parent british grand lodge.
Somewhere between 1967 and 1969, the British pulled the plug on science and technology (only the tech applicable to surveillance was allowed to continue development).
The bri’ish pulled another sneaky one and nobody noticed. Kek

>>507323154
german engineering is highly overrated. the usa was more advanced than germany was. so was russia for that matter

>words words words
>let me use some military terminology to look cool and try to credit my country
meanwhile in reality...

>>507338332
That was the whole point of the F-117.

>>507337770
Yeah, go ahead and hunt kikes in the streets you fucking retard. Kek

>>507323134
Just wait until you see what AI does in 5 years.

>>507337778
Do you understand what dual purpose means? All of tech is dual purpose.

>>507335610
I thought the F14 was retired but yesterday it took down a F35?

It is honestly awe-inspiring the amount of cool stuff white people made in the early 20th century.

Now it's just a.i. spyware, a few medical devices like MRI machines in the latter half, and tiny batteries to power consumer electronics like smartphones

>>507315107
The german scientists we took and the existential threat of the USSR stimulated some technological marvels you won't see again for a hundred, maybe a thousand years.
>>507315463
Shooting things into orbit is way simpler and easier than anyone ever actually expected it to be. Its not exactly a technological marvel at all, as you could say for manned space flight with all the complex engineering and science it takes to make possible.

Even the atomic bomb is basically just banging very unique rocks together really hard so as to cause a chain reaction to exploit a natural phenomena nature does every second of every day effortlessly. Its path of least resistance stuff. Basic bitch in other words. What makes a technological marvel is the challenges it has to overcome to work.

>>507321160
nope, its a wave rider, you ever see that dude who made an explosion canon? black dude, massive gun thing that shoots out flame and goes boom? think of that, but an explosion every second. the top part and side of that plane ride the blast wave. cool hey?

>>507323134
Dude, we were all recording music off the radio onto cassettes in the 90s in our bedrooms when our favourite songs played on the airwaves randomly.

>>507314904 (OP)
Didn't this thing cost a shit ton to maintain and leaked fuel all the time. Read somewhere that they had to design a certain type of fuel that wouldn't ignite outside the fuselage because of this.

>>507314904 (OP)
We should be off world by now but we gave up the stars to feed niggers and prop up women with fake jobs and a fake economy.

>>507314904 (OP)
You have to realize most of this is alien technology.

>>507339501
Costing a shit ton is relative. It might be dirt cheap today.

>>507339541
Correct.
See: >>507335306
And: >>507337993
Also: >>507338687

>>507318878
This. I don't think the general public has really any idea how far we are along in aerospace technology. Everyone looks at the DoD for answers about muh (((UFOs))), but absolutely no one mentions the AEC now DoE. Even one of the Christopher Mellon, King UFO faggot, literally says in every interview about it "I wonder what the DoE is up to?...People should look at the DoE". I've even thought about cornering the liberal faggot Congressman in my district, Andre Carson, about this very thing because he's a UFO faggot and on the UAP committee. You retards want to know about UFOs and directed energy weapons? Maybe stop asking the same faggots like Mellon and Elizondo over and over again and start asking glowniggers at UTTR and Phillips Lab at Kirtland instead.

>>507339385
The engine didn't work and was quietly abandoned as a concept. In fact all the time and money we dumped into that shitshow is probably why we lost the race to hypersonic craft.

>>507316493
Typical boomerbrain, you have to blame the thing you don't like instead of admitting your generation worked hard to kill wages in tech and engineering while simultaneously fucking over any STEM grads you can with massive debt and career gatekeeping.

>>507339198
>I thought the F14 was retired but yesterday it took down a F35?
Iran is the only that still flies it. an F14 with phoenix missiles is still a dangerous threat. I might go play some Captain Skyhawk later.

>>507314904 (OP)
The SR-71 was actually WAY ahead of it's time to the point we actually didn't have the tech to make it properly. The end result is that most SR-71s were destroyed due to malfunction rather than enemy action.

>>507314904 (OP)
>What the FUCK happened?
Corruption, hiding tech and science progression, gatekeeping via universities.....

>>507322989
>Can't imagine what the military has under wraps today.

Niggers, anon. It's niggers. They only have niggers and the occasional homossexual.

>>507336582
Tom Bearden was a gay faggot that stole some of his ideas from actual.classified work he was part of at Redstone Arsenal from Kirtland AFB regarding optical phase conjugation. Scalar weapons aren't real. They wouldn't be all over YouTube if they were. Unironically this retard was actually part of the military until he went totally off the deep end, so he would be NDA'd out the ass for "knowledge acquired during service" if it was real. If you're seeing idiots giving public seminars about allegedly highly classified technology, it's not real. There are all kinds of glownigger "blue sky" symposiums that cover potentially ridiculous, yet potentially feasible technology, and absolutely none of them mention "scalar weapons".

>>507340316
You don’t say. Really?

>>507317350
Good.
Too bad Britain is losing soul. They were soulfull.

>>507317448
Explain, Island nigger.

>>507337094
>PCs, Smartphones, internet, wifi

None of which is an actual scientific advance since the mid 1950s.
With the possible exception of wify.

>>507314904 (OP)
This was all the Germans doing. What’s stopping Germany from performing the same leapfrogging today?

Normies have no concept of how fast tech advanced in the early 1900's like car phones in 1940

>>507340036
U-2 and SR-71 were some of the first forays into using plasma sheathes as aerodynamic enhancements and wide band radar absorption. RCS reduction from the exhaust was ONE of the reasons they charged it with ionized cesium. It's really obvious when you look at the Trapeze variant of the U-2. The Soviets were attempting to do the same thing around the same time through work done by Antonily Koroteyev

>>507314904 (OP)
They stopped showing us what they have.

>>507323134
Once they figure out the basics of something its all just eefinment from there. Computers used to take up rooms worht of space until we shrank the components down over the uears so now computers fit in your pocket. Ironically the biggest challenge in any of this stuff is proving its initially possible

>>507338874
>Make the airplane more complicated and heavier to solve the problems caused by it being more complicated and heavier
Less is more

>>507341077
>They stopped showing us what they have.

COPE
O
P
E

Look at this C.I.A. remote controlled, robotic dragonfly powered by a chemical reaction that directed the gas products out the back.

>>507323134
You know Da Vinci and renissance thinkers constantly experimented with gliding and aerodynamics?

>>507314904 (OP)
Nothing, that required them to reveal what modern looks like.

>>507341077
Some of it manages to make it into the public sphere. Take EUV machines. The DoE invented the technology, but it had absolutely nothing to do with semiconductor manufacturing at first. It was excimer laser research as a part of SDI. There is a reason why Sandia National Labs is the patent holder on behalf of EUV LLC, especially considering they do nothing but weapons research for both directed energy and nuclear weapons.

You niggers think drones are the future? No they're ancient like this Navy BQM-74 Chukar drone from 1968 but the first ones were made during ww2

>>507341214
Fake.

>>507341181
If you know anything about the weird aerospace sightings, you would not be saying that. There are all kinds of weird sightings of EXTREMELY fast moving craft that aren't the traditional (((UFO))). The "Green Lady", Wichita, and Amarillo sightings in the early 2000's are some examples. The green color is either from borane based fuel systems or turning nitrogen in the air into an ionized plasma (probably the latter).

>>507341620
I am ignorant of all things aereal.
But you're just grabbing the UFO's are really ours! cope.

>>507339385
>black dude, massive gun thing that shoots out flame and goes boom? think of that, but an explosion every second. the top part and side of that plane ride the blast wave. cool hey?
no I've seen the one that took the american's gun and bashed his face in with it
sounds interesting though, any link?

>>507341757
But they are...

>>507341858
I do not find that likely, anon.

If the Jew SA had such wonder weapons they would use it in a... striking manner. In order to become masters of the world. For good or bad.

Yet, what we see is (((them))) losing control here and there and becoming ever more... deranged.
They do not have UFOs.

>>507316656
Strapping a pair of rockets to a cockpit is easy but flying the thing to outer space and back without killing the pilot is hard

>>507338874
The Nighthawk's mission was to get in quietly unseen on strategic targets such as factories and infrastructure, and quietly leave.
The Blackbird's mission was to get in and out as fast as fucking possible to procure and secure intel.
If you wanna make a Blackbirb drop a turd on a factory, its primary mission is compromised by the drag and heat problems a bomb bay will cause.
Vice versa a Nighthawk that goes mach 3 makes one cancer loud racket and will be as stealthy as a KKK member in Klan uniform in the Bronx.

>>507342203
Yeah, aliens totally flew millions of miles to crash because of radar in an area of New Mexico where they just happened to have the only nuclear capable base (Roswell Army Air Field) and also developing the world's first nuclear weapons (LANL and Sandia). But sure, it's just retarded aliens.

>>507317523
The NASA one is cute

>>507334130
we never left the moon, we have a boy up there now.

>>507314904 (OP)
>There were a lot of things we couldn't do in an SR-71, but we were the fastest guys on the block and loved reminding our fellow aviators of this fact. People often asked us if, because of this fact, it was fun to fly the jet. Fun would not be the first word I would use to describe flying this plane. Intense, maybe. Even cerebral. But there was one day in our Sled experience when we would have to say that it was pure fun to be the fastest guys out there, at least for a moment.
>It occurred when Walt and I were flying our final training sortie. We needed 100 hours in the jet to complete our training and attain Mission Ready status. Somewhere over Colorado we had passed the century mark. We had made the turn in Arizona and the jet was performing flawlessly. My gauges were wired in the front seat and we were starting to feel pretty good about ourselves, not only because we would soon be flying real missions but because we had gained a great deal of confidence in the plane in the past ten months. Ripping across the barren deserts 80,000 feet below us, I could already see the coast of California from the Arizona border. I was, finally, after many humbling months of simulators and study, ahead of the jet. I was beginning to feel a bit sorry for Walter in the back seat. There he was, with no really good view of the incredible sights before us, tasked with monitoring four different radios. This was good practice for him for when we began flying real missions, when a priority transmission from headquarters could be vital. It had been difficult, too, for me to relinquish control of the radios, as during my entire flying career I had controlled my own transmissions.

>>507345701
> But it was part of the division of duties in this plane and I had adjusted to it. I still insisted on talking on the radio while we were on the ground, however. Walt was so good at many things, but he couldn't match my expertise at sounding smooth on the radios, a skill that had been honed sharply with years in fighter squadrons where the slightest radio miscue was grounds for beheading. He understood that and allowed me that luxury.
>Just to get a sense of what Walt had to contend with, I pulled the radio toggle switches and monitored the frequencies along with him. The predominant radio chatter was from Los Angeles Center, far below us, controlling daily traffic in their sector. While they had us on their scope (albeit briefly), we were in uncontrolled airspace and normally would not talk to them unless we needed to descend into their airspace. We listened as the shaky voice of a lone Cessna pilot asked Center for a readout of his ground speed. Center replied: "November Charlie 175, I'm showing you at ninety knots on the ground."

>>507345804
>Now the thing to understand about Center controllers, was that whether they were talking to a rookie pilot in a Cessna, or to Air Force One, they always spoke in the exact same, calm, deep, professional, tone that made one feel important. I referred to it as the " Houston Center voice." I have always felt that after years of seeing documentaries on this country's space program and listening to the calm and distinct voice of the Houston controllers, that all other controllers since then wanted to sound like that, and that they basically did. And it didn't matter what sector of the country we would be flying in, it always seemed like the same guy was talking. Over the years that tone of voice had become somewhat of a comforting sound to pilots everywhere. Conversely, over the years, pilots always wanted to ensure that, when transmitting, they sounded like Chuck Yeager, or at least like John Wayne. Better to die than sound bad on the radios.
>Just moments after the Cessna's inquiry, a Twin Beech piped up on frequency, in a rather superior tone, asking for his ground speed. "I have you at one hundred and twenty-five knots of ground speed." Boy, I thought, the Beechcraft really must think he is dazzling his Cessna brethren. Then out of the blue, a navy F-18 pilot out of NAS Lemoore came up on frequency. You knew right away it was a Navy jock because he sounded very cool on the radios. "Center, Dusty 52 ground speed check". Before Center could reply, I'm thinking to myself, hey, Dusty 52 has a ground speed indicator in that million-dollar cockpit, so why is he asking Center for a readout? Then I got it, ol' Dusty here is making sure that every bug smasher from Mount Whitney to the Mojave knows what true speed is

>>507345932
> He's the fastest dude in the valley today, and he just wants everyone to know how much fun he is having in his new Hornet. And the reply, always with that same, calm, voice, with more distinct alliteration than emotion: "Dusty 52, Center, we have you at 620 on the ground."
>And I thought to myself, is this a ripe situation, or what? As my hand instinctively reached for the mic button, I had to remind myself that Walt was in control of the radios. Still, I thought, it must be done - in mere seconds we'll be out of the sector and the opportunity will be lost. That Hornet must die, and die now. I thought about all of our Sim training and how important it was that we developed well as a crew and knew that to jump in on the radios now would destroy the integrity of all that we had worked toward becoming. I was torn.
>Somewhere, 13 miles above Arizona, there was a pilot screaming inside his space helmet. Then, I heard it. The click of the mic button from the back seat. That was the very moment that I knew Walter and I had become a crew. Very professionally, and with no emotion, Walter spoke: "Los Angeles Center, Aspen 20, can you give us a ground speed check?" There was no hesitation, and the replay came as if was an everyday request. "Aspen 20, I show you at one thousand eight hundred and forty-two knots, across the ground."

>>507341527
Said the same idiots who thought parabolic mics wouldn't be able to listen to their conversations outdoors and away from possible bugs.

>>507346029
>I think it was the forty-two knots that I liked the best, so accurate and proud was Center to deliver that information without hesitation, and you just knew he was smiling. But the precise point at which I knew that Walt and I were going to be really good friends for a long time was when he keyed the mic once again to say, in his most fighter-pilot-like voice: "Ah, Center, much thanks, we're showing closer to nineteen hundred on the money."
>For a moment Walter was a god. And we finally heard a little crack in the armor of the Houston Center voice, when L.A.came back with, "Roger that Aspen, Your equipment is probably more accurate than ours. You boys have a good one." It all had lasted for just moments, but in that short, memorable sprint across the southwest, the Navy had been flamed, all mortal airplanes on freq were forced to bow before the King of Speed, and more importantly, Walter and I had crossed the threshold of being a crew. A fine day's work. We never heard another transmission on that frequency all the way to the coast. For just one day, it truly was fun being the fastest guys out there.

>>507323037
Apollo 13 is such a good fucking movie, childhood favorite

>>507314904 (OP)
They slowed down the release of new technology.
Ayyys were not happy with the speed they were releasing it to the public.

>>507331830
Underrated

>>507317523
I like that picture because its clear the guys who had the idea to take it were planning for a picture that was less "check out our military might" and was more like "check out our cool engineering toy collection." They even included the little pushback tug :)