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What It Took To Build The SR-71 Blackbird
The legendary SR-71 Blackbird retains the record for America’s fastest manned aircraft—ever. W hile almost everyone has heard ...
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Fifty Years Later, the SR-71 Blackbird Is Still the Fastest Plane Ever Built
Conceived in the late 1950s, as the Cold War was underway, the SR-71 was designed to fly faster than any known aircraft. At that time, Soviet air defenses were becoming more complex and could do ...
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What It Took To Build The SR-71 Blackbird
the SR-71 also featured a minimized radar cross section so that the jet’s combination of stealth and speed would make it nearly impossible for even the most sophisticated Soviet SAMs to take out.