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In reply to the discussion: 50 years old and still the most impressive, menacing looking plane ever engineered [View all]SnowCritter
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50 years old and still the most impressive, menacing looking plane ever engineered [View all]
packman
Dec 2019
OP
Right you are, the Blackbird has very briefly hit Mach 3.5 or approx 2593 mph.
MasonDreams
Dec 2019
#55
i saw one once at dryden research centre in southern ca whilst following a space shuttle .
AllaN01Bear
Dec 2019
#3
Once saw a B-52 on a *very* low practice run on a military training route in Nebraska.
The Velveteen Ocelot
Dec 2019
#24
She used to greet visitors driving by the National Museum of the USAF, right by Col. Glenn Highway
OilemFirchen
Dec 2019
#20
Reminder: The YF-12 was the *armed* two-seat version of the A-11. SR-71 was the later modification.
eppur_se_muova
Dec 2019
#15
Glad to know she is still there, I still think they should bring her indoors.
MasonDreams
Dec 2019
#54
It was built with titanium which came from - wait for it - Russia.
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
Dec 2019
#76
I rode a few times at a farm near the Ottawa airport. I was out when all of a sudden i noticed
applegrove
Dec 2019
#77
Fun fact about that spyplane's titanium fuselage. Guess where the titanium came from...
LaurenOlimina
Dec 2019
#79