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New NASA X Plane to be Announced at Max Power Event
Administrator Jared Isaacman coy about SR-71 future. The post New NASA X Plane to be Announced at Max Power Event appeared first on AvBrief.com.
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman has confirmed a new X-plane will be announced at the organization’s Max Power air show at the Kennedy Space Center Nov 7-8. In a podcast interview last week, he also denied that the announcement had anything to do with the persistent rumor that NASA is returning at least one SR-71 to flying condition. “So, we’re just cleaning it, man,” Isaacman told interviewer Eric Johnson on NASA Spaceflight’s The Flame Trench podcast. “It was so dusty out there in the desert, and it just felt like it needed a cleaning.” There has been some speculation the SR-71 is being put back in service as a chase plane for whatever it is Isaacman is announcing.
"We’re just cleaning it man"
Amid speculation that it could be returning to flight, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman teases to NSF that NASA is "just cleaning" their SR-71 Blackbird… https://t.co/t8uBwaK4s1
— NSF – NASASpaceflight.com (@NASASpaceflight) November 1, 2026
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