{"id":30122,"date":"2015-02-09T02:00:53","date_gmt":"2015-02-09T07:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=30122"},"modified":"2015-02-08T15:43:32","modified_gmt":"2015-02-08T20:43:32","slug":"the-sr-71-blackbird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2015\/02\/09\/the-sr-71-blackbird\/","title":{"rendered":"The SR-71 “Blackbird”"},"content":{"rendered":"

At Sploid<\/em>, Jesus Diaz<\/a> shares some photos from the secret assembly line that built the SR-71 aircraft:<\/p>\n

\"SR-71<\/p>\n

Built and designed in the 1960s after the A-12 Oxcart, the SR-71 Blackbird is still the fastest, most vanguardist air-breathing airplane in the history of aviation<\/a>. These once classified photos reveal how Lockheed built both birds in secret, in California. They look taken at the Rebel base in Hoth.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"The<\/a>

The Blackbirds kept flying long after their retirement from the USAF. One of them stayed at NASA: Here’s a photo from the Armstrong Flight Research Center (then Dryden) of an SR-71 being retrofitted for test of the Linear Aerospike SR Experiment (LASRE).<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

\"SR-71<\/a><\/p>\n

H\/T to Dave Owens for the link, and also a H\/T to Jeff for linking to another photo story about how the aircraft were transported from Lockheed’s Skunk Works to Area 51<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Lockheed<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At Sploid, Jesus Diaz shares some photos from the secret assembly line that built the SR-71 aircraft: Built and designed in the 1960s after the A-12 Oxcart, the SR-71 Blackbird is still the fastest, most vanguardist air-breathing airplane in the history of aviation. These once classified photos reveal how Lockheed built both birds in secret, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,15,13],"tags":[123,145,69],"class_list":["post-30122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-technology","category-usa","tag-aircraft","tag-airforce","tag-nasa"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-7PQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30122"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30143,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30122\/revisions\/30143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}