[TexasGator]

“I loved this plane and have seen it many times.”

I think it is the Eglin AFB museum that has one outside you can get close-up to.

[Yardstick]

They’ve also got one at the Air & Space museum in Huntsville, AL. They’ve got it sitting in front of the main building by the parking lot. Quite a machine to walk around and look at. It’s roped off but you can get in pretty close.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

There’s one in the Pima Air & Space Museum in Tucson, AZ. It’s kept indoors, but you can walk around it.

[Kolb]

The Seattle Museum of Flight has a rare Blackbird variant (M-21) on display that you can get close to. There is also an SR-71 cockpit you can sit in. Did that when I visited Seattle, pretty cool: https://www.museumofflight.org/Exhibits/cockpits

[Man from Oz]

The Cosmosphere at Hutchinson, KS has one. You can actually touch it.

[abb]

There’s one at the USAF Museum, Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton, OH. That place is a bucket-list airplane show.

At the Eglin museum, they have an F-4, and it was the first one I ever saw up close. It is amazing how that thing could fly with those stubby wings.

[Lou L]

I think it is the Eglin AFB museum that has one outside you can get close-up to.

At the Pima Air & Space Museum in Tucson, you can get right up to a Blackbird, even touch the skin of the plane. Fascinating design--I wonder how it would've stood up to computer-aided design programs of today? What shape would we choose today, if we were using modern design tools?