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Its cavities may be packed with sand and water, its engines have sat for 30-plus years, and the spare parts were disposed of in...
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Its cavities may be packed with sand and water, its engines have sat for 30-plus years, and the spare parts were disposed of in...
Tail number 844 flew the last SR-71 sortie anyone has flown, then went on a stand near the Armstrong Flight Research Center and stayed...
The Iowa-class battleships cost a fortune to revive for a few years of service. The Air Force buys new F-15s rather than pull Boneyard...
Reviving the SR-71 Blackbird means finding four J58 engines, replacing rodent-chewed wiring, building two JP-7 tankers and absorbing 300 maintenance hours per hour aloft....
The titanium tooling had been destroyed, so a new SR-71 Blackbird was impossible. At Edwards, 16 test flights chased a phantom four-degree yaw until...
Kelly Johnson's idea was to turn the CIA's A-12 into a missile truck that could sit above 80,000 feet at three times the speed...
The right SR-71 afterburner attachment section blew out on a low pass over the runway, driving flame into the nacelle and peeling titanium off...
A Cessna got 90 knots. A Beechcraft got 125. Then an F/A-18 out of NAS Lemoore came on the frequency and got 620, which...
On May 15, 1972, Maj. Tom Pugh and Maj. Ronnie Rice were flying the SR-71 known as "Rapid Rabbit" at Mach 3.2 when both...
The SR-71 was built to leak. Kelly Johnson's engineers knew the airframe would grow as friction heated it at Mach 3, so they fitted...