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  • SR-71 Blackbird Is the Fastest Plane Ever. One Jet Almost Shot It Down.

    03/31/2021 11:21:03 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 79 replies
    https://nationalinterest.org ^ | March 30, 2021 | by Stephen Silver
    A Swedish pilot named Per-Olof Eldh, using a Viggen fighter jet, lined up with the Blackbird’s flight path and even gained full missile lock. ___________________________________________________________ The SR-71 Blackbird is a legendary plane, which had a long life that began in the 1960s and ended in the 1990s. The plane, considered the fastest ever to fly, was famously never shot down, although it did once have a close call with a meteor while flying over North Korea in the early 1980s. A recent report looked at another close call the SR-71 had, with an unlikely source: the Swedish Air Force, from...