NASA Wants to Fly the SR-71 Blackbird Again!?
Walk into the Great Gallery at Seattle's Museum of Flight and the Blackbird is the first thing you notice — a long black titanium dart with a drone riding on its back. Now picture walking in one day and finding it gone.
That's what happened at NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base. The SR-71A with tail number 844, the last Blackbird Lockheed ever built and the last one to fly, had stood on a display pole since 1999. Earlier this year, it vanished. Aviation Week reporter Steve Trimble found out why: NASA appears to be trying to get the SR-71 Blackbird to fly again.
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