East Linn gets glimpse of world’s fastest spy plane

At the height of the Cold War, it could fly at Mach III (1,800 miles per hour) and scan 100,000 square miles per hour.

The SR-71 Blackbird was the eyes of our nation peering behind the curtain of communism.

Saturday, the world’s fastest spy plane’s fuselage rested for several hours at Pioneer Villa near Brownsville, just one leg away from its new home at the Evergreen Aviation Museum in McMinnville.

Stripped of its massive jet…

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