Une interview de Adelbert “Buz” Carpenter pilote du sr-71
https://airandspace.si.edu/air-and-space-quarterly/winter-2022/he-flew-sr-71
quelques passages:
the SR-71 instruction manuals stacked together were probably 12 inches high
The film from my nose camera, which had a 72-mile-wide view, took 12 hours to process. Because the film was two miles long
But we probably had about a 50-percent divorce rate [in the SR-71 program].
a propos de la zone 51:
The work must be scheduled during a time when no satellites are flying overhead, for example