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

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yodon · 1790727412 · focus · HN ↗
The SR-71 is cool, but this article is not at all confidence inspiring on many fronts.
Guy being interviewed by a reporter about a secret project. A secret project that is trying to resurrect an antique plane that has been subject to weather and on display as a museum piece for many years.
It sounds like a clown-show staged around a cool looking plane that's older than 90+% of HN readers.
1. imglorp · 1790729031 · focus · HN ↗
  Clown show is my guess too. There's no utility for it other than rattling windows and other airshow shenanigans for bragging press releases.
  There are faster (X-43 is mach 9.6 but unmanned) and higher and stealthier ships. But unless you're going to dip into the classified catalog, a rusty SR-71 is faster than the next fastest two ships which are both MiGs.

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