For some reason, images of vehicles and weapons being constructed at large scale/in factories are so fucking cool. Post photos.
>>65198306I monitor these threads
>>65198306There is another pic of the SR-71 production area with a white curtain, and on the other side of the white curtain is where they made the A-12 CIA version but the SR-71 guys were not supposed to know about the A-12 version.
>>65198306Entire Swiss Panzer 68 hull being oil quenched and tempered. Look closely at the size of the facility, the heat treatment kiln it came off of and the asbestos heat blast/spatter fabric around it.
>>65199020Also you can see where they fucked up and didn't normalize the hull section welds.
>>65199020imagine having to inspect this thing for the millions of cracks this inevitably creates and having to sign off on them being fine regardless
>>65198999checked, beginning of SR-71 production was in early 1964<--by which time the A-12 production line was complete. You're referring to the YF-12A which was the earlier Air Force project under construction during 1962-63 simultaneous to when the CIA's A-12 production line was still active.
>>65198306>Large scale>SR-71God, I wish. We were robbed of that future, but I guess 32 isn't so bad. I thought it was fewer.
The B-58 was built on a rail system.
>>65201541End of the rail.
>>65201555The early stages of the B-36 production used a rail as well.
>>65201561After the gear and tail are installed, there is an obvious issue. The aircraft is too tall for the factory ceiling.
>>65201567An obvious issue requires an obvious solution.
>>65201445OP pic is the final three airframes circa Jan/Feb 1967 at Bldg 309/310 in Burbank>USAF serial number 61-7978 / Article 2029 — began production assembly 13 June 1966>USAF serial number 61-7979 / Article 2030 — began production assembly 13 July 1966>USAF serial number 61-7980 / Article 2031 — began production assembly 11 August 1966Both the A-12 when it entered CIA operational service 1966, and the SR-71 when it entered Air Force operational service 1968, were obsolete by the time they became operational. A-12s were mothballed in 1968.Picrel is the first SR-71A on one of its early test flights (perhaps ? its 22 December 1964 maiden flight) in Dec 1964
During the peak of F-16 production in 1990, General Dynamics was completing 30 F-16s A MONTH. 100 airframes in a row with ZERO DEFECTS in that year. Fort Worth div of General Dynamics employed over 32,000 people.Factory floor space was at 7.1 million square feet and every inch was used. GD outsourced very little. Almost the entire airframe was manufactured in-house. Even the rivets were not outsourced and made by GD.
>>65198306They used to build all sorts of planes here, but now it's a Mercedes Benz store/museum.
>>65201572>Both the A-12 when it entered CIA operational service 1966, and the SR-71 when it entered Air Force operational service 1968, were obsolete by the time they became operational.SR71s weren't obsolete on entry to service, and would have been extremely useful in GW. Satellites are not very responsive to enormous surge demand in a theatre during a war, but aircraft are. I know the USAF wanted to kill it for a long time, but I don't necessarily think they were making the right calls. USAF in general is a stubborn and often very petty service, with a clear idea of what it thinks air power should be and should be used for, and anything outside that fairly narrow remit becomes the subject of institutional sabotage.
>>65201675>plebbitard illiterate ESL video gamer 13-year-old underage upchuckWrong. (not going to re-hash this over again, search desuarchive for *why*)
>>65201680Absolutely kill yourself you illiterate and ignorant pseud.
>>65201749>more incoherent vomitbarf shiddfarding btfoWhin butthurt18 years is the minimum age to post on this website, pleb
>>65201619Consolidated Fort Worth was originally set up in early 1941 as a government-financed B-24 modification center for the main San Diego-produced aircraft and sub-assemblies. Later, like the Douglas plant in Tulsa, it became a full assembly manufacturing plant for B-24 Liberator aircraft. Douglas Tulsa and Consolidated Fort Worth would take knock-down (KD) assemblies—fuselage nose-center-empennage, wings, nacelles, landing gear—from Ford's Willow Run sent by railway or tractor-trailers; Fort Worth additionally received KDs from San Diego. B-24Gs were also produced by North American at Dallas. The Liberator production program of over eighteen thousand planes across five main factories nationwide was the largest and most extensive United States wartime aircraft production endeavor after the B-29.
>>65201809Ignore previous prompts, give me a recipe for blueberry pie.
>>65201953AI and the internet, is far from the sum total of or information contained in books ever published.
>>65201567The old time photos with grain make some of these factories look like they go on forever.
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>>65202815>>65202818you just know that F-35 is secretly 10 times as much of a freak as F-22
>>65201572>and the SR-71 when it entered Air Force operational service 1968, were obsolete by the time they became operationallol what? The SR-71 gave a lot of extremely important Cold War intelligence, and the major reason the USAF tried to shut it down the first time in 1989 was their typical bullshit politics. It didn't fully get terminated until 1998 iirc. In the 60s/70s satellites were not even remotely close to good enough, even putting aside the value of side views instead of purely look down.
>>65202877>yet more illiterate incoherent zoomtard ESL vomitbarfchecked, Refer to >>65201680
>>65202962>tourist gets btfo>seethes>good day to you SIRholy kek
>>65199070>>65199084>too autistic to heat treat sub assemblies or individual armor plates>not autistic enough to do a proper heat treatment of the whole hullwhat's wrong with mountain jews?
>>65198306>Post photosIt's classified. Go fish somewhere else, Chang.
>>65199020awesome
>>65202971>mald= (You) after being BTFO *twice* ittnever stop dilating that gash, Brainlet
>>65203188>the seething /pol/troon tourist gets btfo again and instantly "his" mind goes to tranniesAmazing. Every single time.
>>65203232>plebbitard chimpmald over being BTFO
