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Originally Posted by scollins
Awesome stuff! I find it amazing that the Air Force is still flying the Dragon Lady (U2), while the SR-71 was retired over a decade ago. Looks like they'll still be flying into 2014 (rough estimate.)
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That is interesting isn't it? I just found out the SR-71 had a ceiling of 90k feet... not 70k like this 1950's U2.
I have to take my hat off to the Lockheed Martin engineers for pioneering this in the 1940's to be released for use in the 1950's..... I can't even imagine how ahead of the time this thing would have been given the technologies of the era this plane was designed/produced in.
