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Re:NASA Asked Several Former SR-71A Blackbird Staffers to He... by tyrabound on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @07:59AM (#49907636)
It's funny how management's self-delusion about things never makes it into the mind and reality distorting Hollywood movies where the boomer reactivated from retirement saves the day through muscle memory alone in 48 hours of tense montage of frustrations and final inevitable success.
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Re:NASA Asked Several Former SR-71A Blackbird Staffers to He... by brightball on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @08:37AM (#49908024)
Are you trying to tell me that Space Cowboys isn’t real?
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Re:NASA Asked Several Former SR-71A Blackbird Staffers to He... by Forgeties79 on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @09:46AM (#49908908)
No if you want accuracy you need to watch Armageddon
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Re:NASA Asked Several Former SR-71A Blackbird Staffers to He... by adolph on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @10:41AM (#49909672)
Sometimes things really are delusion until they become reality. Isaacman built up Draken International, "an American provider of tactical fighter aircraft for contract air services including military and defense industry customers." [0] Its fleet includes 1960's vintage aircraft like the Mirage F1. He also is privately undertaking a restoration of a Pavina Tornado. [1] Additionally he has donated restored or to restore early missile artifacts to a space museum. [2]

Could Isaacman's NASA restore and fly an SR-71? If anyone on the planet had a chance, it's either him or Paul Allen and Allen isn't around any more.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draken_International

1. https://thisisflight.net/2024/07/02/jared-isaacman-announces...

2. https://www.yahoo.com/news/private-astronaut-jared-isaacman-...

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