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jonah on April 27, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Gigantic R/C Jet Turbine Powered SR-71 Blackbird

Well, there was the YF-12. (Though the model in question is not this two-seat variant which saw testing as an interceptor though was never fielded.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_YF-12

z303 on April 27, 2015 [–]

The model in the video look more like an A-12 (earlier CIA version of the SR-71) to me. They flew with bare metal and black leading edges and were single seat.

The YF-12A looked different, the chines didn't extend all the way to the nose and had a ventral fin

jonah on April 27, 2015 | [–]

Yup, A-12 as the title of the Youtube video states.

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