Often confused with a fictional aircraft featured in Top Gun: Maverick, which goes by the name Darkstar, the SR-72 hasn’t been given a codename. According to Interesting Engineering, the aircraft design is sometimes referenced as the Son of Blackbird, which throws down a challenging gauntlet for the designers at the famed Lockheed Martin Skunk Works engineering team.
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