Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoNASA mysteriously trying to pull world’s fastest plane, SR-71 Blackbird, out of retirement — and won’t say whynypost.comexternal-linkmessage-square333fedilinkarrow-up1564arrow-down115file-text
arrow-up1549arrow-down1external-linkNASA mysteriously trying to pull world’s fastest plane, SR-71 Blackbird, out of retirement — and won’t say whynypost.comIlovethebomb@sh.itjust.works to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square333fedilinkfile-text
Seeing Blackbird fly again after all these years would be incredible. I’d love to know what NASA has planned for it.
minus-squareAA5B@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·2 days agoIt’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
minus-squareIlovethebomb@sh.itjust.worksOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 day agoThat’s my thought as well, they want data for something they’re building.
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
That’s my thought as well, they want data for something they’re building.