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Originally Posted by Ralph Mowery
I remember seeing some films with a room full of engineeers with slide rules
that were shown as desiging the SR71 Blackbird.
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Did you know that the SR71 Blackbird was originally intended to be called the RS71 Blackbird. But, when President Johnson (I think it was) held a briefing to explain the project to some Senators that controlled the purse strings on black projects, he repeatedly called it the SR71 instead of the RS71.
So, they quickly changed the name of the plane from RS71 to SR71.