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.
We didn’t directly trade with them then, and we wouldn’t now. If the government wanted it, they’d just do the same thing and use intermediary countries and shell companies.
The thing they aren’t mentioning is that the only reason to try and take a sixty year old plane out of mothballs is that they can’t make them anymore.
All the titanium for the current ones came from Russia. They’re even harder to trade with now than they were in the cold war
We didn’t directly trade with them then, and we wouldn’t now. If the government wanted it, they’d just do the same thing and use intermediary countries and shell companies.