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

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    3 days ago

    How can it be the fastest plane if it’s not even painted red?

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      3 days ago

      The first one was red but once they got everything right, they would just make photocopies every time a new one was needed. And as we all know, red ink comes out black in copies.

      My friend has the red one in his garage. They let him have it because he saved Obama’s life once.

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      3 days ago

      They could have made it even faster with a coat of red paint, but engineers thought that would have pushed the materials past their limit, so they chose to leave it black.