Sunday, February 11, 2018

Boeing Unveils Concept to Replace the SR-71 Blackbird

A Mach 5 hypersonic jet...

A Boeing concept to replace the legendary Blackbird spy plane.


Boeing recently unveiled a conceptual model for a new hypersonic jet that would replace the SR-71 Blackbird, according to Aviation Week Aerospace Daily, Daniel Brown reports on businessinsider.com.


The conceptual model was displayed at the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics SciTech forum in Orlando, he wrote.

The "airplane concept and associated technology are targeted for a hypersonic ISR (reconnaissance)/strike aircraft that would have the same type of mission as the SR-71," Boeing spokeswoman Sandra Angers told Business Insider in an emailed statement. "In that sense it could be a future replacement for the SR-71," Brown added.

For more: https://amp.businessinsider.com/boeing-unveils-sr-71-conceptual-hypersonic-jet-design-2018-1

The record-setting SR-71 Blackbird.

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