Why would the blackbird fly so high? I looked it up and it says they can fly up to 90,000ft.

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Why would the blackbird fly so high? I looked it up and it says they can fly up to 90,000ft.

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Answer 1

As I remember in the late 1950’s an U-2 spy plane had been shot down over the Soviet Union. Causing a big international incident, so the SR71 was created to fly higher and faster than the Soviet missiles.