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Re:What Made the SR-71 Blackbird Such a Badass Plane (2015) by mrec on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @09:44PM (#15753794)
Not badass-plane exactly, but Bill Weaver's story is another cracker. His SR-71 disintegrated around him (no ejection) at Mach 3.18 and 78,000 feet. He was back in the cockpit two weeks later.

https://theaviationist.com/2015/03/17/sr-71-mid-air-disinteg...

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