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12. I'll be we've already spent a $1m on sketches and the final price tag will be hundreds of billions.

Sun Nov 3, 2013, 07:17 AM

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This is the successor to the SR-71 Blackbird, and it is gorgeous [View all] MADem Nov 2013 OP

"and, in a twist, it's now lethal". n/t PoliticAverse Nov 2013 #1

On paper, anyway. They've got a ways to go, yet. nt MADem Nov 2013 #4

The Skunk Works still lives? longship Nov 2013 #2

Skunk (singular) Works. MADem Nov 2013 #3

Mea culpa, the dreaded iPhone typo. Fixed. longship Nov 2013 #6

Minor point, shouldn't first sentence say SR72 after habu? pkdu Nov 2013 #5

No, the SR-71 was the Habu. MADem Nov 2013 #7

Nice jet. unhappycamper Nov 2013 #8

Who knows? It looks like a drawing and maybe a scale model at this MADem Nov 2013 #11

Well, it's a sketch on paper at this stage. nt MADem Nov 2013 #10

+1 n/t unhappycamper Nov 2013 #13

Could be. Hard to know. MADem Nov 2013 #14