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NASA asked several former SR-71A staffers to help secret restart

327 points · 403 comments · ilamont

  1. DivingForGold · · focus · HN ↗
    Bet Tom Cruise will be offering to allow him to use it for an upcoming movie thrilla
    1. rbanffy · · focus · HN ↗
      I wouldn’t mind, as long as the plane flies again.

      It’s a true marvel of engineering.

      1. tclancy · · focus · HN ↗
        Not a trick to make an old plane fly again. The trick is holding it together and landing it.

        I would imagine the problem they have with the 70 year olds they’re trying to recruit is that there are old pilots and bold pilots but well, you know the rest.

        1. rbanffy · · focus · HN ↗
          OTOH, a pilot in their 70’s can be bold and still die of old age.
          1. tclancy · · focus · HN ↗
            Sorry, “the rest” is literally “there are no old, bold pilots.”
    2. pdonis · · focus · HN ↗
      Top Gun: Blackbird?
      1. bitwize · · focus · HN ↗
        More like Mission: Impossible. Replete with a mini-doco about how Tom Cruise literally for reals skydove out of the Blackbird without a chute and landed on the enemy rocket in one take.
        1. jasomill · · focus · HN ↗
          That will have to wait until Trump turns his attention to making the CIA "cool" again.
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