NASA Quietly Explores Return to Flight for Historic SR-71A After 27 Years
NASA has contacted former SR-71 engineers as the restoration would require major parts, fuel and maintenance work, officials said.
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The agency has withdrawn from exposure to SR-71A 844 and sought out former program specialists to study whether the supersonic plane can fly again
‘Seals and Gaskets Have Dried Out and Would Crumble’: Why Bringing Back a Mach 3 SR-71 Blackbird Into the Sky Might Takes Years and a Lot of Cash
Reviving the SR-71 Blackbird means finding four J58 engines, replacing rodent-chewed wiring, building two JP-7 tankers and absorbing 300 maintenance hours per hour aloft. $600 million in spares were destroyed long ago.
Key takeaways In an effort to advance research into high-speed aviation, NASA has reached out to retired engineers in their seventies to assist with a potential SR-71 Blackbird project. Supersonic flights According to reports from Aviation Week, formal appointment proposals have been made to Tim Conners and Mike Relja, both of whom previously worked as test engineers for […]
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