LA Speed Check - SR-71 Blackbird (The King of Speed)

[ProfessorGAC]

30. Not So Fast!

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Very cool that you were involved with that plane, but here's what I found that made me say 1999:

During 1988, the USAF retired the SR-71 largely due to political reasons; several were briefly reactivated during the 1990s before their second retirement in 1998. NASA was the final operator of the type, retiring their examples in 1999.

So, at least some were flying missions in the 90s. You have inside info I don't.
The speed test LA to DC was the one I remember being in the news.
A guy I went to HS with (now a doctor in Minnesota) had a brother a year younger that was involved in the SR-71 somehow. IIRC, it was in reconnaissance analysis, but not sure I'm remembering that correctly.
He went to the AFA a year after his brother went to Loyola Chicago.
I left HS a year early, so I've only seen those guys once or twice since 1973.