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07-12-2018, 12:05 PM

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One quiet evening, an SR-71 and a few friends...

Here are a few pictures from our last photo shoot with SR-71 NASA 844.

And here is our Enata Aerospace management team that assisted me for the session.
From right to left:
Dejan, COO
Matthieu, assembly and systems engineer
Janusz, lead designer
Myself...

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07-12-2018, 01:56 PM

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hey oli, good to see the photo of you and the guys, sr71 is awesome...regards..roy

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07-12-2018, 01:56 PM

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Very nice!

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07-12-2018, 02:23 PM

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I was second-guessing myself when i saw the "droopy" ailerons. I was sure I was looking at the real-thing. Then I saw the 4th picture.

Great looking model.

Rafael

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07-12-2018, 09:05 PM

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hey oli, good to see the photo of you and the guys, sr71 is awesome...regards..roy

Welcome, Roy. Enjoy your plane...

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07-12-2018, 09:08 PM

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I was second-guessing myself when i saw the "droopy" ailerons. I was sure I was looking at the real-thing. Then I saw the 4th picture.

Great looking model.

Rafael

Lol...

We have a certain technnique to weather the surface of the Blackbird. It looks extremely realistic once processed...
Note that this one has 18,000 rivets put on. At scale 1/8 they are tiny little things, though...

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