NASA appears to be pulling its SR-71 Blackbird, the fastest production plane ever made, out of retirement as the Trump administration teases its new line of hypersonic surveillance jets — but doubt…

Seeing Blackbird fly again after all these years would be incredible. I’d love to know what NASA has planned for it.

  • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
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    16 hours ago

    Whenever nasa’s involved it’s always something to do with airflow dynamics or something. If it was the US military I would assume that though.

    • LazyOldPervert@lemmus.orgEnglish
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      14 hours ago

      I wouldn’t be surprised if they’re trying to use it to concept test something related to aero for the x-37

    • AA5B@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      15 hours ago

      We know that NASA is doing research on both supersonic and hypersonic airflow. There are extremely few existing aircraft they could use for hypersonic testing