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During the SR-71 “Blackbird’s” more than 25-year-long service history – which ran from its first flight in 1964 through retirement in 1999 – not...
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During the SR-71 “Blackbird’s” more than 25-year-long service history – which ran from its first flight in 1964 through retirement in 1999 – not...
Meet the SR-91 Aurora – The moniker “Aurora” first appeared in a black program spy plane request in the mid-1980s. Since then, the mysterious...
The SR-71C was a truly strange spy plane for many different reasons. Why did the US Air Force create this? The Lockheed SR-71 “Blackbird” was quite...
SR-71 Spy Plane Able to Evade Enemy Air Defenses Without a Scratch: The SR-71 Blackbird put the capital “E” on evasion. The enemy fired...
Meet the Myth and Legend of the SR-91 Aurora Spy Plane – Watch out for media leaks and uncorroborated sightings, some airplanes can take...
When it comes to getting from point A to point B, taking to the air is the quickest way possible, obviously. For commercial fliers,...
No SR-71 Blackbirds Were Ever Shot Down – And Other Amazing Facts You Didn’t Know: Of the thirty-two Lockheed SR-71 “Blackbirds” that were built...
A-12 Oxcart Spy Plane, a History: On October 30, 1967, a CIA spy-plane soared eighty-four thousand feet over Hanoi in northern Vietnam, traveling faster than...
Throughout the Cold War, the United States Air Force’s SR-71 was one of the world’s fastest and highest-flying operational aircraft. From 80,000 feet in the air, it could...
What made the SR-71 special: When the Soviet Union shot down Gary Power’s U-2 high-altitude reconnaissance plane in 1960, the US recognized an urgent...