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XNbE TIL the SR-71 BlackBird traveled from New York to London in under 2 hours
p58N TIL That SR-71 pilots sometimes came from bomber aircraft because nobody else had experience in long supersonic flights. A crew taken from a B-58 Hustler ended up setting a world record for longest supersonic flight after flying the SR-71 for over 10 hours… over 15,000 miles. Nonstop.