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The SR-71 set a 2,193.167 mph record, gathered intelligence above 80,000 feet and was retired over cost and changing priorities.
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The SR-71 set a 2,193.167 mph record, gathered intelligence above 80,000 feet and was retired over cost and changing priorities.
The F-16XL doubled payload, extended range and lost to the F-15E before NASA used two prototypes for decades of supersonic research.
Flying the Korean DMZ out of Kadena on a moonless night, former SR-71 pilot David Peters described a view unavailable from the ground: "We...
An SR-71 lost effective thrust at 83,000 feet near the Soviet Kola Peninsula, fell 65,000 feet, and reached a tanker with minutes left.
A demonstrator was supposed to be flying by 2025. Instead: no photos, no leaks, no acknowledgment. What the silence around Lockheed's "Son of Blackbird"...
No missile ever touched it. No fighter ever caught it. And still a third of the fleet was destroyed — by the only force...
You can walk right up to an F-117 or an early F-22 in an American museum and photograph every angle. It won't help you...
In 1967, Pete Knight flew Mach 6.72 and was called the fastest man alive. For thirty years, the Space Shuttle made that number look...
The U-2 was sold to Eisenhower as invisible to Soviet radar. The invisibility lasted exactly zero missions. What Kelly Johnson built to replace it...
During what was supposed to be his final flight aboard the legendary SR-71 Blackbird, former Reconnaissance Systems Officer (RSO) Richard “Butch” Sheffield experienced the...