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NASA mysteriously trying to pull world’s fastest plane, SR-71 Blackbird, out of retirement — and won’t say why (nypost.com)

submitted 5 days ago by Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Seeing Blackbird fly again after all these years would be incredible. I'd love to know what NASA has planned for it.

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[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago (2 children)

It’s fun speculation to assume this is for military reasons but remember nasa s a civilian agency. Perhaps it’s connected to their research on supersonic and hypersonic flights

[–] jollyrogue@lemmy.ml 1 points 17 hours ago

Or someone as NASA got a fun project greenlit. They threw it into the budget for the lulz, and it didn’t get cut. 😆

You’re most likely correct. They need a really fast plane to test sonic boom dampening at Mach 3+ speeds, and they can’t build a specialty plane yet.

[–] Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 days ago

That's my thought as well, they want data for something they're building.