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Six questions about clever battles, a one-legged pigeon war hero, an army made of rubber, and the fastest plane ever built — whose entire defense plan was “just go faster.”

Your first question:

The U.S. Air Force’s SR-71 Blackbird was a Cold War spy plane that flew higher and faster than almost anything ever built. When an enemy missile was fired at it, what was the pilot’s standard move?

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