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You can read anything you want about the SR-71, but nothing compares to actually seeing it in person. It is my single favorite engineered object. It's in the D
by rossjudson 5y ago
You can read anything you want about the SR-71, but nothing compares to actually seeing it in person. It is my single favorite engineered object.
It's in the Dulles Air and Space museum. Go see it, if you can. You won't regret it.
- aynyc 5y agoIt's also on the Intrepid. The first time I saw it in person, my brain didn't understand how it could fly. It's massive. It looks like a space shuttle rather than a jet.
- NikolaeVarius 5y agoThe aircraft on the Intrepid is not a SR-71 Blackbird, it is a A-12. They look similar, but are pretty different.
- aynyc 5y agoYou are right! I never knew about the A-12. They both are amazing machines!
- op00to 5y agoYou can get close enough to touch it. But you mustn’t touch.
- belter 5y agoSame with the Canopy, Ejection seat and Wing of the F-117 shot over Serbia. At the Belgrade Aviation Museum... ;-)
- simmo9000 5y agoThere is also one at the Imperial War Museum in Duxford, UK, which you can get near enough to touch if no-one is looking. Super impressive machine close up.
- annexrichmond 5y agoI just got the chance to see it this past week. Absolutely incredible. It looks completely different at every angle you look at it
- ccleve 5y agoThere's another one in Oregon: https://www.evergreenmuseum.org/exhibit/sr-71-blackbird/ https://www.evergreenmuseum.org/exhibit/sr-71-blackbird/
- lizknope 5y agoThere are lots of them around. I have seen SR-71's and A-12's in at least 6 different museums. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_SR-71_Blackbird#Accidents_and_aircraft_disposition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_SR-71_Blackbird#Accid... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_A-12#Fate_of_the_A-12s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_A-12#Fate_of_the_A-12...
- chasd00 5y agoI saw the one in Tucson Arizona. It’s not as long as I thought it would be. Incredible machine.
- asdff 5y agoThere's an A12 Blackbird in LA in expo park. It's just sitting outside near a parking garage, free to see anytime like the DC-8 or the F18 or Endeavor's fuel tank (Endeavor itself is indoors in the science center). It's amazing how large of a vehicle it is in person. It's got to be twice the size of the F18 in front of the science center. It still looks like a spacecraft from the future even though it's nearly 70 years old.