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During its twenty-four-year career, the SR-71 remained the world’s fastest and highest-flying operational aircraft in the world. At 80,000 feet, the Blackbird could survey...
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During its twenty-four-year career, the SR-71 remained the world’s fastest and highest-flying operational aircraft in the world. At 80,000 feet, the Blackbird could survey...
While there has been a lot said and very little knowledge about the supposed SR-72 Son of Blackbird or sometimes called SR-72 Darkstar, there...
Was the SR-91 Aurora a genuine Mach 5 plane or not? This expert does a very deep dive analysis to get some answers.
For aviation buffs (you know who you are), the star of Top Gun: Maverick wasn’t Tom Cruise but instead was the aircraft that the one-time...
The Cold War is filled with crazy stories of Russia trying to mimic or copy NATO and the U.S. in building lethal weapons of...
The Lockheed SR-71, known unofficially as the “Blackbird” for its dark black paint job – which was developed to dissipate heat – was among the...
The Saab J37 fighter is the only aircraft to ever score a missile lock on a legendary SR-71 Blackbird. Thankfully the fighter was friendly...
While the SR-71 Blackbird remains the world’s fastest air-breathing aircraft, the rocket-powered X-15 has its own richly deserved place in the aviation history record...
In a 19FortyFive article I wrote today on the subject of the legendary Finnish sniper Simo Häyhä, I made a note of the fact that...
The SR-71 Blackbird is one of the United States’ most distinctive spy aircraft of the Cold War. Since the aircraft was developed in total...