SR-71 Blackbird: You Needed a Crazy Flight Suit to Take It Into the Sky

Though 32 Lockheed SR-71 "Blackbirds" were built, 11 were lost in accidents – yet not a single aircraft was shot down by the enemy. But the flight suit needed to get into this hot rod in the sky was quite something. 

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