World's fastest jet crew reunites with SR-71 spy plane

Read this interesting article about the two crew members who reunited after 40 years with the once super-secret spy plane, number 17958 Blackbird SR-71, that put them in the history books.

What amazing achievement it was! All possible through physics, chemistry, mathematics, engineering, etc. The article has a nice video as well. In case the article becomes unavailable, you can download the text here as a pdf file (1,6MB).

On the 4th of June 2005, I was fortunate to see a Blackbird SR-71 (picture on the left) in the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC. In the distant background, behind the Blackbird, one of Nasa's space shuttles, is visible. If you are interested to see more about this Blackbird, click this link.