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-squarebrucethemoose@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·edit-215 minutes agoNASA is researching quieter supersonic flight, and I can’t help but think of how the (also Lockheed Martin) X-59- -has a extreme wing profile/nose, not unlike SR-71:
minus-squareIlovethebomb@sh.itjust.worksOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 hour agoI think the most likely explanation is something like this, they want data they can’t otherwise get.
NASA is researching quieter supersonic flight, and I can’t help but think of how the (also Lockheed Martin) X-59-
-has a extreme wing profile/nose, not unlike SR-71:
I think the most likely explanation is something like this, they want data they can’t otherwise get.