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[–] 6 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Seeing the blackbird in the Smithsonian with it's engines so close you can almost touch it is a hallowed experience...

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    There's an air and space museum near where I grew up that has a real SR-71, and one time when I was visiting, one of the old pilots happened to be there and he gave my girlfriend and I an up-close tour of it. He showed us where him and his buddies signed it and put handprints on the underside. Very fascinating experience.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    OK that's cool.

    I was at Udvar Hazy and one of the restorers was poking around a Devastator or similar behind ropes. He was bored and talked to us a while about restoring planes. Lot of fabrication. That was right after the Concorde arrived and the whole area reeked of jet fuel from it.

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