Went on to be developed into the Concorde bomber.
Photo of the Day: SR71 from the #RAFLuton Spunkworks division based at the Broom Lake test facility, pictured flying at 99,001ft over Milton Keynes during WW2 as part of #OpWindup
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It does justify all the hundreds of hours the Ordnance Survey spent engaraving in the National grid though, makes air navigation so much easier. The letters and numbers don’t show up very well though from that height.
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Why is it flying sideways?
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It was equipped with early prototype thrusters that were later used on the space shuttle
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The people look almost like ants. Wait - they ARE ants. Lay off the drugs, kids.
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How do you tell the sex of an ant? You drop it in some water. If it sinks it's a girl and and if it floats it s a boy.........
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Where`s the concrete cows???
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That's because they were the early diesel engined ones, they were a little slower accelerating than the petrol but could go twice as far and because the diesel is thicker and waxy could fly higher without the fuel icing up.
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