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“In-flight Refueling the SR-71 during the Cold War”
Click here for pdf view in B&W of the first 33 charts that I used to brief in person. Not a video.
Introduction
Introduction to Speaker, Charles Vono (2:11)
Overview, What the Following Charts Will Cover (1:34)
History
The Rise of Strategic Bombing (7:12)
Two Brothers from Calabria (8:37)
United States Nuclear Triad (3:07)
After the War, The Feel of the Fifties (12:00)
The SR-71
The Birth of Strategic Reconnaissance (5:53)
Speed means Heat, Heat means JP-7 (1:23)
The Q-model Tanker
Tanker Formation for In-flight Refueling and other Q stuff (4:12)
Rendezvous-ing with the Receiver (in work)
Fuel Tanks, Weight, Center of Gravity, Flyability (7:04)
More about the Q (in work)
More About All KC-135s
Look out! Engine Blades! (in work)
Aircraft Control Surfaces (18:16)
Scientific American Article about life on a wing (a more complicated and complete explanation)
Pilot’s Instrument Panel (in work)
Introduction
Center Panel Instruments and Aircraft Engines (10:06)
Sextant
Landing Gear (in work)
Today’s KC-135 (in work)
Q&A
Advice to USAF Academy Cadets (1:55)
“The Complex System Sustainment Management Model”
Sustainment Timeline of the 20th Century (2:05)
Closed Loop Failure Analysis (CLFA) Short Version (3:20)
Closed Loop Failure Analysis (CLFA) Long Version (25:21)
Short step by step of the Complex System Sustainment Management Model (6:37)
How We Kept Minuteman ICBMs at Top Performance for Half a Century (23:37)
“The 1790 Evans Flour Mill Led to Commercial Space”
(in work)
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