Yet another Hacker News

NASA asked several former SR-71A staffers to help secret restart

15 points ilamont 13 hours ago 6 comments

DivingForGold 11 hours ago | parent

Bet Tom Cruise will be offering to allow him to use it for an upcoming movie thrilla

rbanffy 8 hours ago | parent

I wouldn’t mind, as long as the plane flies again.

It’s a true marvel of engineering.

pdonis 11 minutes ago | parent

Top Gun: Blackbird?

bitwize 5 minutes ago | parent

More like Mission: Impossible. Replete with a mini-doco about how Tom Cruise literally for reals skydove out of the Blackbird without a chute and landed on the enemy rocket in one take.

swader999 5 minutes ago | parent

It's for a new Pepsi promotion