In Appreciation of the SR-71

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In Appreciation of the SR-71

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The Ultimate Spy Plane: the SR-71. The SR-71 will truely be unmatched in its class and the world will never see the likes of such an aircraft ever again.

However advanced they were, time and technology overtook them; in 1990, as satellites appropriated their mission, operational flights ended. Today’s unmanned orbital droids may represent the state of the art. But compared with the Blackbird, they are hardly art at all.

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1 denny Jul 1st, 2009 at 11:07 pm

It will live on as the preferred mode of transport of a certain team of superpowered mutants

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