{"schema":"hottub-news/story/v1","story":"st_yuvtdtuwukwjrtug3m6q","title":"A Piece of String Solved the Mystery of the US Air Force’s Crooked SR-71 Blackbird","title_en":null,"outlets":1,"brief":null,"page":"https://hottub.news/stories/a-piece-of-string-solved-the-mystery-of-the-us-air-forces-crooked-sr-71-yuvtdtuwuk","count":1,"items":[{"id":"n_yuvtdtuwukwjrtug3m6q","seq":552220,"kind":"article","title":"A Piece of String Solved the Mystery of the US Air Force’s Crooked SR-71 Blackbird","url":"https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/a-piece-of-string-solved-the-mystery-of-the-us-air-forces-crooked-sr-71-blackbird","summary":"The titanium tooling had been destroyed, so a new SR-71 Blackbird was impossible. At Edwards, 16 test flights chased a phantom four-degree yaw until a yaw string proved the pitot boom was mounted crooked.","published":"2026-09-28T23:43:59Z","seen":"2026-09-29T01:02:42Z","lang":"en","source":{"id":"kite-19fortyfive-com-a82c5c","name":"19fortyfive.com","domain":"19fortyfive.com"},"via":"kite-19fortyfive-com-a82c5c","topics":["defense","aerospace & defense","air force","sr-71","sr-71 blackbird","sr-71c","us air force","us military"],"authors":["Harrison Kass"],"entities":[{"id":"Q11223","name":"United States Air Force","type":"org"},{"id":"Q190114","name":"Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird","type":"other"}],"story":"st_yuvtdtuwukwjrtug3m6q","category":"science-technology","category_p":0.6200000047683716,"sentiment":"neutral","tone":0.009999999776482582,"political":0.05000000074505806}]}