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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...
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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...
Before the SR-71 became a legendary spy plane, the Air Force nearly turned it into a missile-armed interceptor — the YF-12, fitted with fire-control...
The SR-71 Blackbird remains one of the fastest aircraft ever built, and its speed came down to two of the strangest engines ever flown....
Before the SR-71 Blackbird ever flew, a Soviet aviation designer named Pavel Tsybin was already trying to build a spy plane to beat it...
A Navy F-4 Phantom crew was vectored to get a radar lock on the SR-71 Blackbird as it returned from a run near China....
Summary and Key Points: The SR-71 Blackbird flew the Cold War’s most dangerous reconnaissance missions — over the Soviet periphery, North Vietnam and North...
We Visited a YF-12A – Please See the Pictures We Took Below: A Lockheed YF-12A Mach 3 interceptor traveling at Mach 3.2 and 75,000...
A retired SR-71 Blackbird Reconnaissance Systems Officer just revealed an explosive new theory about why the legendary spy plane was really retired in 1990....
In April 1986, a U.S. Air Force SR-71 Blackbird launched from RAF Mildenhall in eastern England on a routine six-hour Cold War reconnaissance mission...
From 1991 through 1999, NASA flew the SR-71 Blackbird after the aircraft was retired from the U.S. Air Force. The aircraft was flown for...