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Realistically this is true of most planes. They have a "never exceed" speed that is supposed to indicate the highest speed you can fly in smooth air without extensive maneuvering before damaging the airframe. But normally you can get it to go faster.
There's also a "maneuvering" speed which is the highest speed you can fully deflect control surfaces without damaging something, and sometimes a "turbulence penetration" speed which is like the never exceed speed but through rough air.
The SR-71 did not have any of these explicitly written as ops limits, so presumably the engineers just decided they wouldn't want to explode the plane trying to test this and left it at Mach 3.2 (or 3.3 at commander's discretion).
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"Keanu Reeves TOLD ME that I have a strong, open quality."
That's not really lying, is it?
EDIT: Somebody please explain the sudden comments coming in 6 months after this comment?
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