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I was worried at first, why do they need that right now? But looking over the specs, this would be like taking a classic corvette to a bank robbery. So this is for sure for show and possibly to add more sensors to record data they couldn't previously record. Me thinks they want to make another that could maybe go to space proper and deploy something.
This is pure speculation, I'm not an expert.
Whenever nasa's involved it's always something to do with airflow dynamics or something. If it was the US military I would assume that though.
We know that NASA is doing research on both supersonic and hypersonic airflow. There are extremely few existing aircraft they could use for hypersonic testing
The SR-71 is the fastest production plane ever made that we know of. If one is being brought out of retirement, my first inclination would be to think it's because something bad happened and they ran out of "Auroras" or whatever even faster black project jet they replaced it with.
Or America stopped being able to make them natively.
I mean if it's the fastest, why would it really be retired? It'd be like Michael Phelps retiring after his first gold medal.
Sorry Blackbird fans, they just need the bits to resurrect Optimus Prime
X-Men did it.
Nasa's plan: "Seeing Blackbird fly again after all these years would be incredible."
boomer nostalgia is a disease, and it isn't more complicated than that
I wonder what would happen if you painted a blackbird with Vantablack paint?
If it flew at night would you be able to see it?
Would it stand out as darker than the darkness?
No real reason, they just want to pump more hydrocarbons into the atmosphere.
Perhaps NASA is doing it to make a trophy that might impress the imbecile emperor in hopes of securing funding for space science.
Like in Rainbow Mars when the Time Travel Bureau has to go on safari to capture extinct pets for their imbecile emperor.
