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An SR-71A aircraft flies during an airborne refueling, February 1997. Jeff Dunford, a historian for the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force, describes the history of the Air Force SR-71 Blackbird, the world's fastest plane.

WORLD'S FASTEST

An SR-71A aircraft flies during an airborne refueling, February 1997. Jeff Dunford, a historian for the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force, describes the history of the Air Force SR-71 Blackbird, the world's fastest plane.

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