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Originally Posted by HHI944
The U2 is no spring chicken either......and a few SR71s have been called back from retirement.....hard to argue with Mach 'holy fark we just passed an entire continent in the time it took to fart!'
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I heard they put a few SR-71s away in storage so that they could be flight ready again, but I had not heard they ever got back into the air. They have to have a special tanker and fuel just to support them.
Back when the world was black & white and I was an infant my dad was stationed in Louisiana. He was a pilot and was working in intelligence. He was personally responsible for every document on the base and the safe storage of all of them. Since he had to verify what a document was he had security clearance to see them all, and was beyond top secret.
One day there was a big throng of people over by a hangar that was right on the way he went home. He headed that way and was stopped by security. They would not let my dad close, because it was all "need to know" only. If you are not on that short list, you are out.
A few years later he found out it was one of the first U2s.