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-square_skj@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·2 hours agoThey are expensive to fly and maintain and their primary purpose as a high-altitude spy plane has been taken over by satellites. They are still really cool, we just don’t have a good use for them.
They are expensive to fly and maintain and their primary purpose as a high-altitude spy plane has been taken over by satellites.
They are still really cool, we just don’t have a good use for them.