We got our money’s worth out of this one.
Another era, another time.
My daughter was a jet mechanic on the 117 and 22. She always knew of my lost over the A12/SR71s and one day she took me to the Tucson museum to see the one there. Keep in mind her then-job working on the best of the best and the fact she had never seen one of these beasts in the flesh. in the flesh.
Long story short her mind could not grasp that it was built 50 years ago. And on the engine they had on display with mechanical actuators consisting of wheels and ‘rubber bands’, I thought she was going to have ‘a moment’.
What we did then/that era, in space and aeronautics will likely never be repeated until warp drive becomes real. Thanks to our Govt.