Seeing Blackbird fly again after all these years would be incredible. I'd love to know what NASA has planned for it.

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Technically, they're both supersonic, not hypersonic, but yeah, that's just semantics. The actual important detail is that the SR-71 is twice as fast (or more) as the F-35. There's a lot of testing you can do with the former that's just not possible with the latter.

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