Re:SR-71 Blackbird Astro-Nav System (a.k.a. R2-D2) worked by...
by pythonguython on Monday September 25, 2023 @07:41PM
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You can also get close to an SR-71 at the Robins Air Force Base museum in Georgia, and if you touched it probably nobody would notice
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Re:SR-71 Blackbird Astro-Nav System (a.k.a. R2-D2) worked by...
by TimTheTinker on Monday September 25, 2023 @08:40PM
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There's also one at the March air field museum (attached to March ARB, née March AFB) in Riverside, California.
Re:SR-71 Blackbird Astro-Nav System (a.k.a. R2-D2) worked by...
by ecommerceguy on Monday September 25, 2023 @09:13PM
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Theres one at Strategic Air Command Museum in Nebraska.
https://www.sacmuseum.org/what-to-see/aircraft/sr-71a-blackb...
Re:SR-71 Blackbird Astro-Nav System (a.k.a. R2-D2) worked by...
by GolfPopper on Monday September 25, 2023 @11:34PM
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I've visited that one. As a someone who grew up during the Cold War, the idea that we've got these once super-secret military aircraft just sitting where any old tourist can walk up and take picture from a few feet away always generates some cognitive dissonance.
Re:SR-71 Blackbird Astro-Nav System (a.k.a. R2-D2) worked by...
by mgsouth on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @08:52PM
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In Palmdale California, at the corner of 25th St E & E Palmdale Ave [1], there's what is essentially a parking lot with a chain link fence around it. Sitting there are a SR-71, a A-12, a D-21 (supersonic recon drone originally launched from A-12 variant), and a U-2. You can just sit there and take all the pictures you want.
[1] https://www.google.com/maps/@34.6026576,-118.0860601,117m/da...