SR-71 Blackbird: The Fastest Plane Retired Decades Ago and Is Collecting Dust

The Lockheed Martin SR-71 Blackbird (or, as its aircrew members have dubbed it, the Habu, after a pit viper indigenous to Japan)  is, without a doubt, one of the most legendary and iconic military aircraft of all time, by simple virtue of the fact that 58 years after its invention and 23 years after its official retirement (retired by the U.S. Air Force in 1998 and by NASA the

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