Happy Birthday SR-71
 

50th anniversary of its first flight.

50!

(not to mention its predecessor the A-12 that flew a couple of years earlier.)

Yes, tempus seems to fugit ever more rapidly the more of it that passes.

A brilliant aircraft that might just spawn a successor, you never know:

NASA launches study for Skunk Works SR-72 concept - 12/17/2014 - Flight Global

LF

retired 15 years ago and still plane of the future (just like Concorde) :)

Long distance cruise, M5.0, UK design and technology at the forefront at the forefront of US capability? Reaction Engines Ltd - LAPCAT A2

In your dreams did you say???