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SR-71 Blackbird /

An examination of the design concepts of the Lockheed company and Kelly Johnson. These designs set the company and the man so far apart from their contemporaries at the time that to this day, in one design alone, that gap has still not been breached. The SR-71 Blackbird planes were so secret it is o...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Malcolm-Gibbs, Wayne (Producer), Roberts, Paul (Narrator), Sharam, Darren (Director)
Format: Video
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Geelong, Australia : World Wide Entertainment, 2007.
Series:World history in video.
Subjects:
Johnson, Clarence L., > 1910-1990.
Lockheed Aircraft Corporation.
Johnson, Clarence L., > 1910-1990
Airplanes, Military.
Industrial design.
Lockheed aircraft.
SR-71 Blackbird (Jet reconnaissance plane)
Avions militaires.
Design.
Lockheed (Avions)
SR-71 (Avion de reconnaissance)
Documentary
Alexander Street Video.
Documentary television programs.
Nonfiction television programs.
Documentaires télévisés.
Émissions télévisées autres que de fiction.
Online Access:Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press)
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Summary:An examination of the design concepts of the Lockheed company and Kelly Johnson. These designs set the company and the man so far apart from their contemporaries at the time that to this day, in one design alone, that gap has still not been breached. The SR-71 Blackbird planes were so secret it is only with the benefit of time that we can now look back in awe of their achievements. Even then we will probably never know all they were capable of.
Item Description:Previously released on DVD.
Title from resource description page (viewed Sept. 1, 2011).
Physical Description:1 online resource (25 min.).
Playing Time:00:24:12