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NASA mysteriously trying to pull world’s fastest plane, SR-71 Blackbird, out of retirement — and won’t say why
Seeing Blackbird fly again after all these years would be incredible. I’d love to know what NASA has planned for it.
nypost.com/2026/09/29/us-news/us-quietly-sr-71-blackbird-out-of-retirement-and-wont-say-why/Replying to @Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works
The thing they aren’t mentioning is that the only reason to try and take a sixty year old plane out of mothballs is that they can’t make them anymore.
Replying to @CrimeIsLegalNow@ani.social
There are plenty of reasons to take one out,
They could be doing non destructive testing on it
They could have a hypothesis on how some phenonomen works and want to do a test on an already built product vs spending billions on a new product
They could be working on a similar design and the original drawings (hand drawn) have an inconsistency that they want to compare to the real product
it’s not like they are sending it on spy missions again, it’s nasa wanting to see it and it’s also possible they don’t even NEED the blackbird but a bunch of aerospace nerds found an excuse to pull out a plane that’s considered one of the coolest planes of all time