Flight of the Blackbird: The how, what and why of the incredible SR-71 [feedly]

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Flight of the Blackbird: The how, what and why of the incredible SR-71
// Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine



Even though it was built at the height of the Cold War and hasn't flown in over 17 years, the SR-71 Blackbird still looks like it fell out of the future. The war plane with no weapons not only had the lines of a spaceship, it set the record fastest air-breathing manned aircraft in 1976 that remains unchallenged to this day. But what makes this incredible machine tick, and what was it like to fly this supersonic denizen of the edge of space? New Atlas jumps metaphorically into the cockpit to take a look.

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