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My favorite aircraft just got bumped

I always had a major soft spot for the SR-71 Blackbird. The design is over forty years old and I remember a TV show when they interviewed some of the original engineers and when asked if they would do anything different, now with 30 years of advances, their reply was a simple no. They would build it just the way they did then. That was my all-time favorite airplane and today, it just got bumped... Check out this gorgeous creature:
More photos, a fun story and another really cool story (hint: dump your Airbus stock and buy Boeing) over at Sean Linnane's Stormbringer And yes, the Boeing 797 is still in very early stages of development -- sufficiently early that preliminary news releases have their own page at Snopes. Looking at 2015 for a rollout from what I have read. Posted by DaveH at November 24, 2009 9:32 PM