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NASA Recruits Retired Engineers to Revive the SR-71 Blackbird
Original: NASA Has Made Job Offers to 2 Retired Engineers in Their Seventies to Help Restart an SR-71 Blackbird. The Aircraft Last Flew on October 9, 1999, and Nobody Has Turned Its Engines Since.
NASA has reportedly made job offers to two retired engineers in their seventies to help restart an SR-71 Blackbird, an aircraft that has not flown since October 9, 1999, and whose engines have not been turned since. The move would rely on institutional knowledge from engineers who worked on the plane decades ago, raising questions about why the storied reconnaissance aircraft is being revived now.
Why now: The prospect of bringing a legendary Cold War-era spy plane back to life decades after its retirement is striking and unexpected.
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