The SR-71's unusual silhouette caused workers at a U.S. base in Okinawa, Japan, to refer to the plane as the habu—a poisonous black snake indigenous to the island.

SR-71不同寻常的轮廓让在日本冲绳岛美军基地的工人们将它看作响尾蛇-该岛土生土长的剧毒黑蛇。