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How important is an open airway? Time after time we see that once the airway is opened during the day and maintained during sleep, the transformation is quick and dramatic.
Gasp!
Michael Gelb, Howard Hindin
In my view, shared by many blue-suiters, this marvelous airplane should still be operational but, alas, that was not to be. One of the most depressing moments in the history of the Skunk Works occurred on February 5, 1970, when we received a telegram from the Pentagon ordering us to destroy all the tooling for the Blackbird. All the molds, jigs, and forty thousand detail tools were cut up for scrap and sold off at seven cents a pound. Not only didn’t the government want to pay storage costs on the tooling, but it wanted to ensure that the Blackbird never would be built again. I thought at the time that this cost-cutting decision would be deeply regretted over the years by those responsible for the national security. That decision stopped production on the whole series of Mach 3 aircraft for the remainder of this century. It was just plain dumb.
Skunk Works
Ben R. Rich and Leo Janos
In a rare interview with the Middle East Economic Survey, Al-Naimi said that Saudi production costs are no more than $5 per barrel, and that marginal costs of development are “at most” $10 per barrel. As 2014 drew to a close, estimates were that it cost U.S. frackers as much as five times that to get a barrel out. “Is it reasonable for a highly efficient producer to reduce output, while the producer of poor efficiency continues to produce?” asked Al-Naimi. “That is crooked logic. If I reduce, what happens to my market share? The price will go up and the Russians, the Brazilians, U.S. shale oil producers will take my share.” Al-Naimi and OPEC thus came to the decision to leave production levels where they were.
Saudi America
Bethany McLean
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