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Tuesday, August 13, 2013

A return to the Air Force for the sleek Blackbird?


Nearly 50 years after its first flight — and 15 years after its last — the SR-71 Blackbird still looks like the spy plane of the future.

During its Cold War heyday, the sleek rocket-plane could skim along the atmosphere at Mach 3, twice as high and more than three times as fast as commercial jet aircraft.

It could shoot high-quality photographs of secret sites from an altitude that no Soviet fighter could reach.

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