Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/06/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks Vick. I was told that much of the Blackbird was designed using analytical techniques rather than computational solutions to the partial differential equations. Not long afterward computers became fast enough to be significantly useful. The difference in computer speed between the US and the Soviet Union continued to diverge - so there was a lot of work done in Russia on formal analytical techniques that was not pursued in the US simply because you didn't need to do that way - brute force worked just fine. This was also especially true for plasma physics. I'd recommend an excellent book: "Sled Driver Flying the World's Fastest Jet" by Brian Shul. ISBN 0-929823-09-7. It may be out of print. Interesting text and great images. Adam On 6/12/05, Vick Ko <vick.ko@sympatico.ca> wrote: > Beautiful shots of the most curvaceous plane that was previously in the > US arsenal. > > I admire that Kelly slammed that plane together without modern > computing, and despite all the government "help" that comes ultra-secret > projects. > > Regards, > > Vick Ko ://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >