NASA appears to be pulling its SR-71 Blackbird, the fastest production plane ever made, out of retirement as the Trump administration teases its new line of hypersonic surveillance jets — but doubt…
Seeing Blackbird fly again after all these years would be incredible. I’d love to know what NASA has planned for it.
Just remember NASA are the ones doing this, not the air force. I don’t think they want to use it as a spy plane, and if they were designing a successor, you’d expect it to be the air force, or someone like DARPA doing this.
Just remember NASA are the ones doing this, not the air force. I don’t think they want to use it as a spy plane, and if they were designing a successor, you’d expect it to be the air force, or someone like DARPA doing this.
yet another reason to not bring the sr71 back - nasa used them for decades for testing, dunno what else they’d need it for.
Did they? Never knew that. I’ll take your word for it as well.
yep used it to test aerospike ramjets iirc
https://aerospaceglobalnews.com/news/nasa-sr-71-blackbird-844-comeback/
Thank you and thanks for the good read