Posted on Mar 19, 2019
Watch NASA's rare footage of the SR-71 — one of the fastest planes to ever exist
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I once saw an SR-71 on display at March Air Force Base and a second one's at Lackland Air Force Base.
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Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen
The FB-111 program was a traditional pipeline into the SR-71, only drawback was you had to get an astronaut physical and for quite a few that was a 'you bet your wings' thing.
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Thank you for the great video clip share brother Danny, great stuff to share.
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Many forget that this aircraft was first developed as the YF-12 fighter. Its claim to fame was that it could be based in the mid US and make intercept of Soviet aircraft coming over the pole before traditional fighters based in Alaska. That concept never came to be and hence the SR-71 program came into being.
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