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Credit:. @sr71habubrats One of the Blackbirds before the SR-71 is the MD-21. M~Mother D~Daughter.

The Skunk Works team at Lockheed called the A-12, the MD-21, the SR -71, and the YF-12 all Blackbirds.

Engineer Ben Rich is the man who succeeded Kelly Johnson as the vice president of the Skunk Works. It was his idea to paint the airplane black. He remembered from his college days that a good heat absorber also made an excellent heat emitter that would actually radiate away more heat than it would absorb through friction. “I calculated the black paint would lower the wing temperatures by 35° by radiation.” Kelly Johnson did not like the idea because the paint would cost him 80 pounds of fuel with the extra weight. Kelly said that he was desperate to lose 100 pounds of weight. ( Kelly wants the SR 71 to be as light as possible because of the massive amount of fuel the Blackbird used.)

Ben responded,” But Kelly, think of how much easier it will be to build an airplane using a softer titanium, which we can do if we lower the heat friction temperatures on the surface.

The next day, Kelly Johnson gave me a quarter; it was a rare win. He said Ben, on the black paint, you were right about the advantages, and I was wrong.

From the book “Skunk Works” by Ben Rich,

posted by Linda Sheffield Miller.

Photo by Fisher located at the Museum of Flight Seattle, Washington.

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