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Yesterday's Air Force: The World's Fastest Plane
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May 7, 2015 | 2:59
In the 1960's, the Air Force developed a plane that could travel more than 3 times as fast as the sound produced by its own enormous engines.

The SR-71 Blackbird's incredible speed enabled it to gather intelligence in a matter of seconds while streaking across unfriendly skies. And in the off chance an enemy tried to shoot it down with a missile, all the Blackbird had to do was speed up and outrun it. Incredible!
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