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NASA Teases Potential SR-71 Blackbird Return To Flight
Iconic Cold War spy plane removed from museum amid speculation
SR-71 with tail number 844 during 1990s flight test
SR-71 tail number 844, the last Blackbird ever built, was one of two aircraft loaned to NASA by the U.S. Air Force for high-speed, high-altitude aeronautical research in the 1990s.

In an unforeseen twist of events, speculation is abounding that NASA could be planning to get the iconic SR-71 Blackbird strategic reconnaissance aircraft airborne once more. Speaking during the recent ‘All-In Summit,’ held in Los Angeles, NASA administrator Jared Isaacman appeared to tease an image of the iconic long-range spy plane: cryptically commenting that “it will not be long before NASA is flying once again as high and as fast as we have from decades past.” 

Meanwhile, as first reported by Aviation Week, satellite images online appear to show a SR-71 has mysteriously moved from its static home at California’s Armstrong Flight Research Center. The 1960s-vintage spy plane was at the forefront of U.S. efforts to monitor Soviet military capability. 

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