lots of great inside information i hadn't heard in previous documentaries on the blackbird (kinda wish
they'd found cleaner/sharper footage, though), but i was really hoping they'd include my favorite bit of
sr-71 trivia during the scenes showing the manufacturing: since most of the plane was to be made of
titanium, which america didn't have nearly enough of, the cia set up a dummy corporation to obtain it
from the world's largest supplier... russia!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/lockheed_sr-71_blackbird
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/skunk_works
http://www.barthworks.com/aviation/sr71titanium.htm
they'd found cleaner/sharper footage, though), but i was really hoping they'd include my favorite bit of
sr-71 trivia during the scenes showing the manufacturing: since most of the plane was to be made of
titanium, which america didn't have nearly enough of, the cia set up a dummy corporation to obtain it
from the world's largest supplier... russia!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/lockheed_sr-71_blackbird
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/skunk_works
http://www.barthworks.com/aviation/sr71titanium.htm
