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Subject: Israel Built A Fighter Jet So Strange That Boeing Thought It Was A Joke
Date: 16 May 2017 11:00:18 -0700
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recently deployed a F-15B that several years ago was considered a total loss.
The back half was ruined in a flight, but the front half was still good.
Undeterred, the Israeli techs merely sutured the good half to the good half of
another plane, to create this freak.
The project began in 2011 after a flock of pelicans flew straight into one of
according to Defense News. The entire rear half of the fighter jet was ruined,
but the front part still seemed to work just fine. So what to do with a piece of
nearly totaled junk?
really. The depot tried reaching out to Boeing to see if it was possible,
reports Defense News, but it never heard back:
still no answer, we contacted them again about our plan to combine two separate
aircraft. They said they never got back to us because they thought we were
exactly how this monster handles.
manufactured. The nickname for the SR-71C, according to Hill Air Force Base,
stems from it being a weird mashup of the front half of an engineering mockup of
an SR-71, and the rear half of a crashed YF-12. Colonel Richard Graham was an
SR-71 pilot, and in his book SR-71 Revealed, he described The Bastard as truly
living up to its name (emphasis ours):
SR-71 maintenance procedures and was difficult to troubleshoot and repair. I was
and, consequently, accelerated better because of its greater thrust-to-weight
a constant yaw. Subsonic, it handled like all the other SR-71s.
cost just under $1 million.
official said. Not a bad deal.
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