SR-71 “Blackbird” An Insight to Top Secret‚ Record Breaking‚ Cold War Technological Advances in Aviation A Brief Look into the SR-71 By JSoucy Introduction The Date is August 4 1955‚ and the U-2 “Dragonlady” Reconnaissance takes to the skies for the first time in history. The U-2 was built specifically to gather intelligence on foreign countries with the primary intention of flying over the Soviet Union and photographing sites of strategic interest. The U-2 was soon to have a
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at a Blackbird Stanza I 3. a. Ominous - "only moving thing" is an eye. b. Detail - contrast of silent‚ white snow‚ and moving black eye. c. Eye is all seeing. Stanza II 3. a. Torn: targets the "three" choices like with the different "three minds" and "three blackbirds" b. Detail - Compares and contrasts "three minds" and "three blackbirds" then in a way ties it to one thing‚ "a tree." c. Even though humans think of things with two sides‚ the tree has three sides the three blackbirds with
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The Comparison between the Antonov An-225 and the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird AER121 – NDD Prepared for: Andrej Zile Prepared by: Jovan Brech (115137176) Due: 09/27/17 We will be comparing the Antonov An-225‚ with the SR-71. We will examine some of the differences and the similarities between them. we will go in much detail in the contrast of both aircraft and will specifically compare the design feature of the engines‚ and how the engines help completes the mission for each
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Slide: Many big companies had benefitted from the ideas of their employees that not just bringing innovation but adding to its revenue stream. Several global cases have been renowned especially to big companies’ history on how their respective intrapreneurs made the business to be the pioneer of a certain business idea. 1. Most renowned “Skunk Works” 2. Spencer Silver and Art Fry’s development of post-it notes at 3 M company Modern Day 1. Steve Jobs and a group of 20 Apple Computer
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2100 hours‚ Captain James S. Steward of the United States Air Force straps on his G-suit and goes over his mission briefings one last time. He walks out into the hanger and awaits his chariot. The SR-71 Blackbird‚ the fastest plane in the world with it’s twin turbine engines and slick black radar absorbent skin make him a flying shadow in the air. His mission‚ to fly a covert reconnaissance mission over Moscow‚ the heart of the USSR Intelligence believe that the Russians have a build up of nuclear
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5. Violets It is dusk‚ and cold. I kneel to pick frail melancholy flowers among ashes and loam. The melting west is striped like ice-cream. While I try whistling a trill‚ close by his nest our blackbird frets and strops his beak indifferent to Scarlatti’s song. Ambiguous light. Ambiguous sky Towards nightfall waking from the fearful half-sleep of a hot afternoon at our first house‚ in Mitchelton‚ I ran to find my mother‚ calling for breakfast. Laughing‚ “It will soon be night‚ you
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21 Pale flakes with lingering stealth come feeling for our faces-- 22 We cringe in holes‚ back on forgotten dreams‚ and stare‚ snow-dazed‚ 23 Deep into grassier ditches. So we drowse‚ sun-dozed‚ 24 Littered with blossoms trickling where the blackbird fusses. 25 Is it that we are dying? 26 Slowly our ghosts drag home: glimpsing the sunk fires glozed 27 With crusted dark-red jewels; crickets jingle there; 28 For hours the innocent mice rejoice: the house is theirs; 29 Shutters and doors
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styles ideas and themes and also their similarities. The first poem I am discussing is ‘The Blackbird of Glanmore’ which is a contemporary poem written by Seamus Heaney. In this poem‚ Heaney uses the blackbird to refer to his lost brother. He makes a direct mention of ‘It’s you‚ blackbird‚ I love‘. This implies that the blackbird either is a symbol of his brother or is in fact his brother’s sprit. The blackbird gives two very contrasting symbols here. First is the liveliness of the bird which is the
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"Blackbird" Blackbird singing in the dead of night Take these broken wings and learn to fly All your life You were only waiting for this moment to arise. Blackbird singing in the dead of night Take these sunken eyes and learn to see All your life You were only waiting for this moment to be free. Blackbird fly Blackbird fly Into the light of the dark black night. Blackbird fly Blackbird fly Into the light of the dark black night. Blackbird singing in the dead of night Take
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end of her busy beak. “Ooh‚ it’s nooo sort of a day for nest building is it‚ dear?” Betty Blackbird sympathizes very much with Mother Sparrow.
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