THE AVIATIONIST · DEFENSE
IS AN SR-71 BLACKBIRD RETURNING TO FLIGHT 27 YEARS LATER?...
NASA quietly removed the SR-71 #844 from static display at the Armstrong Flight Research Center, where it sat since the type’s last flight in 1999, just as NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman is promising a new generation of high-speed X-planes.
SCOTT: Watch the airframe and the training pipeline, not the parade footage. Programs live or die in the schoolhouse.