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NASA mysteriously trying to pull world’s fastest plane, SR-71 Blackbird, out of retirement — and won’t say why (nypost.com)
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Seeing Blackbird fly again after all these years would be incredible. I'd love to know what NASA has planned for it.

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[–] 27 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (5 children)

NASA is researching quieter supersonic flight, and I can't help but think of how the (also Lockheed Martin) X-59-

Loooong boi

-has a extreme wing profile/nose, not unlike SR-71:

Almost as long

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    I think the most likely explanation is something like this, they want data they can't otherwise get.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago* (1 child)

    Machine learning + fluid dynamics?

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  • [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago

    Turbulence at the trans-sonic barrier is one of the most difficult and poorly understood problems in modeling even today - Heisenberg famously said he'd ask god two questions: why relativity, and why turbulence? - and as a result experimental results really are the best way of determining even the base parameters of the behavior of a system under those conditions.

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