Legendary Spy Plane Secretly Recommissioned by NASA

The SR-71 Blackbird spy plane could be considered the crown jewel of Lockheed’s legendary ‘Skunk Works’ department, at the height of the Cold War. Built almost entirely out of titanium, it was a flying platform so revolutionary for its time that it could simply fly higher and faster than anything the Soviets could throw at it—if they could even detect it at all, given its reduced radar cross-section. The SR-71 was so elusive that to this day the CIA still […] The post Legendary Spy Plane Secretly Recommissioned by NASA appeared first on The Daily Grail.

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