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I don't normally do this but...the SR-71 was not a fighter jet. It was a strategic reconnaissance aircraft.
by FD3SA 13y ago
I don't normally do this but...the SR-71 was not a fighter jet. It was a strategic reconnaissance aircraft.
- entreprenewer 13y agoThanks for the correction. I didn't know that, I just knew that it came out of the famed Skunkworks :)
- smacktoward 13y agoLockheed actually developed a fighter version of it, the YF-12: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_YF-12 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_YF-12 It never got beyond the prototype stage, though.
- angersock 13y agoIt makes for a nice story, though, doesn't it?