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A retired Blackbird officer says the SR-71 wasn’t killed over cost — it was killed to win the F-22 contract
Summary and Key Points: For more than three decades, the official story of the SR-71 Blackbird’s retirement has been simple: ...
Between its maiden flight in 1964 and its retirement in 1999, the U.S. Air Force lost 12 of its Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird reconnaissance aircraft to non-combat accidents — but only one of those 12 ...
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