Message posted by Gordy on March 13, 2008 at 17:42:06 PST:
To me, as a lay person pilot type, the most obvious difference is the nose. The SR-71 has a knife-edged perimeter that extends from the leading edge of the wings clear around the nose (horizontally) where the YF-12A seems to have a more conical nose with a spire tip. There also seems to be intakes on either side of the nose on the YF-12A that the others don't have.
In Reply to: Re: cosmetic difference between A-12, SR-71 posted by ALAN on March 13, 2008 at 9:42:01 PST:
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