SR-71 Blackbird Quotes

  SR-71 “Blackbird” An SR-71B Trainer over the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California in 1994. Note the raised second cockpit for the instructor.    Role Strategic Reconnaissance    Manufacturer Lockheed Skunk Works    Designed by Clarence “Kelly” Johnson    First flight 22 December 1964    Introduced 1966    Retired 1998…

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Blackbird Quotes

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Blackbird Quotes ||||||| There’ll be white blackbirds before an unwilling woman ties the knot. – Irish Proverb ||||||| I know noble accents And lucid, inescapable rhythms; But I know, too, That the blackbird is involved In what I know. – Wallace Stevens ||||||| He comes by for a dove dinner…

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