{"id":48907,"date":"2014-12-13T23:19:38","date_gmt":"2014-12-14T06:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/13\/still-the-prettiest-aircraft.html"},"modified":"2014-12-13T23:19:38","modified_gmt":"2014-12-14T06:19:38","slug":"still-the-prettiest-aircraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/13\/still-the-prettiest-aircraft.html","title":{"rendered":"Still the prettiest (aircraft)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, the SR-71 Blackbird. Everything an Incredibly Cool Jet should look like (i.e., bearing a tremendous resemblance to stuff I drew on scrap paper as a kid).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/sploid.gizmodo.com\/rare-high-definition-photos-of-the-sr-71-blackbird-1670184930'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/ESMPD4pCHtr_2fwVlvR3edDiWCRwPxZLtG6XWkUZi5Br2lPlkuHAk0YjoF_8Z_t4xWzjE0qzN_MWQEAb3qfTvFSRMq_7xHNXRk4SdSxPAXCjTTqCJ276uCEUbnMwIdSN6myxcb6xJQ=w506-h303-p' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/sploid.gizmodo.com\/rare-high-definition-photos-of-the-sr-71-blackbird-1670184930'>Rare photos of the SR-71 Blackbird show its amazing history<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nThe SR-71 Blackbird is, without a doubt, the most advanced airplane ever built in relation to the technology available at the time. It broke all aviation records, it flew incredible missions, and it became the stuff of legend. Lockheed Martin published its history in this collection of high resolution scans of old photos.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/bXsqGcpX8BD'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, the SR-71 Blackbird. Everything an Incredibly Cool Jet should look like (i.e., bearing a tremendous resemblance to stuff I drew on scrap paper as a kid). Rare photos of the SR-71 Blackbird show its amazing history The SR-71 Blackbird is, without a doubt, the most advanced airplane ever built in relation to the technology &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/13\/still-the-prettiest-aircraft.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Still the prettiest (aircraft)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":41681,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/04\/11\/flying-the-sr-71-blackbird.html","url_meta":{"origin":48907,"position":0},"title":"Flying the SR-71 Blackbird","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 11-Apr-14 9:00am","format":false,"excerpt":"Still one of the most awesome aircraft ever. 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