Blackbird

[Jim Steck]

>About the Blackbird leaking, the skin of the aircraft (it has wet tanks)
>was made with super thin slits in them.  When the airframe heated up at
>speed, the titanium expanded and forced these slits closed.  Without them,
>the skin would buckle at high temperature.  You have to admit, it takes
>balls to design a plane with holes in the fuel tank!

Am I correct that the fuel was more of a jelly than a liquid?

-Jim Steck