![]() So is it the fabled “Son of Blackbird” that’s featured in Top Gun: Maverick? The answer is, “sort of.” I can’t wait #avgeek #wingfriday /PyAak69qOj This still photo from promotional materials seems to support that thinking. Rumours that ‘Top Gun: Maverick’, in cinemas May 27, features a sneaky peek at what might be the SR-72, successor to super-impressive SR-71 Blackbird. This still photo from promotional materials seems to support that thinking.” Lockheed Martin Director of Communications for Europe, the Middle East and Africa John Neilson was even more explicit in a recent tweet writing, “Rumours that Top Gun: Maverick, in cinemas May 27, features a sneaky peek at what might be the SR-72, successor to super-impressive SR-71 Blackbird. It was odd, then, that Lockheed CEO James Taiclet posted publicly on LinkedIn this month that the company’s ultra-secret Skunk Works, which handles many of its most boundary-stretching projects including the SR-72, “partnered with Top Gun’s producers to bring cutting-edge, future forward technology to the big screen,” including tech around “hypersonic flight.” He also shared a photo of himself at the film’s premiere. That, along with its game-changing speed, has only added to the plane’s mystique. Not much more has ever been officially revealed about the SR-72. An artist’s rendering of the SR-72 Lockheed Martin Oh, and it pegged the development cost at $1 billion. Some reports have maintained the SR-72 could be “rolled out for initial flight demonstrations by no later than 2023.” Lockheed, in its original announcement, claimed the game-changer could be operational by 2030. Not much more was heard about the so-called “Son of Blackbird” until Lockheed confirmed engine tests in 2017. Lockheed Martin had uncharacteristically announced plans for the plane in 2013. ![]() Others guessed it could be something even more exotic: The near-mythical hypersonic SR-72, the Blackbird’s rumored descendant, which is designed to fly at six times the speed of sound. ’Top Gun: Maverick’ From Cannes To Theaters – Deadline’s Complete Coverage 'Top Gun: Maverick' Set To Take Breath Away With $142M+ Record Memorial Day Opening - Box Office ![]()
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