The world’s fastest airplane. Once top secret, the CIA A-12 Senior Oxcart and its venerable successor the SR-71 Blackbird were the fastest planes ever built. They flew higher and faster than anything before it or after it. To this day nothing comes even close to touching their speed records at over three times the speed of sound. Built to spy on the USSR, it was built with titanium obtained through covert means from the USSR without them knowing the final intent of its use.

Now she sits in a forgotten corner of the California desert hoping to roar again. The purest definition of Power.

 

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