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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
All the titanium for the current ones came from Russia. They’re even harder to trade with now than they were in the cold war
Replying to @Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz
But you could sell the titanium and buy gold ornaments at Home Depot.
Replying to @Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz
That was during the cold war in the 60s and 70s things are different now. I am not sure how different, but they are.
Replying to @Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz
We didn’t directly trade with them then, and we wouldn’t now. If the government wanted it, they’d just do the same thing and use intermediary countries and shell companies.