Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 22 hours agoNASA mysteriously trying to pull world’s fastest plane, SR-71 Blackbird, out of retirement — and won’t say whynypost.comexternal-linkmessage-square244fedilinkarrow-up1432arrow-down113file-text
arrow-up1419arrow-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 · 22 hours agomessage-square244fedilinkfile-text
Seeing Blackbird fly again after all these years would be incredible. I’d love to know what NASA has planned for it.
minus-squareEcho Dot@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·7 hours agoWhenever nasa’s involved it’s always something to do with airflow dynamics or something. If it was the US military I would assume that though.
minus-squareLazyOldPervert@lemmus.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·5 hours agoI wouldn’t be surprised if they’re trying to use it to concept test something related to aero for the x-37
minus-squareAA5B@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·5 hours agoWe know that NASA is doing research on both supersonic and hypersonic airflow. There are extremely few existing aircraft they could use for hypersonic testing
Whenever nasa’s involved it’s always something to do with airflow dynamics or something. If it was the US military I would assume that though.
I wouldn’t be surprised if they’re trying to use it to concept test something related to aero for the x-37
We know that NASA is doing research on both supersonic and hypersonic airflow. There are extremely few existing aircraft they could use for hypersonic testing