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SVTPerformance's Chain of Restaurants
Road Side Pub
SR-71 Blackbird fun facts
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<blockquote data-quote="James Snover" data-source="post: 16310441" data-attributes="member: 67454"><p>They did use a computer. Or at least, Ben Rich did. To optimize the shape of the inlets to hit their speed target was a monster of a job. Rich figured out how to codify his work. They'd build an inlet to scale at a specific design, test it in a wind tunnel, compile the numbers and have one of the earliest available computers crunch the numbers. Then they'd redesign, rebuild, re-test, repeat. Rich said he probably used over 10,000 hours of computer time. None of those guys were working an eight hour day.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="James Snover, post: 16310441, member: 67454"] They did use a computer. Or at least, Ben Rich did. To optimize the shape of the inlets to hit their speed target was a monster of a job. Rich figured out how to codify his work. They'd build an inlet to scale at a specific design, test it in a wind tunnel, compile the numbers and have one of the earliest available computers crunch the numbers. Then they'd redesign, rebuild, re-test, repeat. Rich said he probably used over 10,000 hours of computer time. None of those guys were working an eight hour day. [/QUOTE]
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