Aerospace & Defense
On July 28, 1976, SR-71 61-7958 set the absolute speed record that still stands, 2,193.2 mph, about Mach 3.3, while a second Blackbird set...
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On July 28, 1976, SR-71 61-7958 set the absolute speed record that still stands, 2,193.2 mph, about Mach 3.3, while a second Blackbird set...
On January 25, 1966, Lockheed test pilot Bill Weaver was cruising an SR-71 Blackbird at Mach 3.18 and 79,000 feet with the center of...
At Mach 3.2 in air 70 below zero, the SR-71 Blackbird’s titanium skin averaged 620 degrees and its 107-foot fuselage grew three to four...
The Iowa-class battleships cost a fortune to revive for a few years of service. The Air Force buys new F-15s rather than pull Boneyard...
Reviving the SR-71 Blackbird means finding four J58 engines, replacing rodent-chewed wiring, building two JP-7 tankers and absorbing 300 maintenance hours per hour aloft....
A Cessna got 90 knots. A Beechcraft got 125. Then an F/A-18 out of NAS Lemoore came on the frequency and got 620, which...
Two Danish F-35As landed at Kangerlussuaq on September 16, the first of the type on a Greenlandic runway, after training with U.S. F-16s and...
Returning from a SR-71 Blackbird reconnaissance run past Denmark, Shul and Walter Watson were asked to give a group of cadets a fly-by. Haze...
For the SR-71 Blackbird, Corning spent years and millions developing solid quartz windows because ordinary glass would have distorted. The wing skin was deliberately...
No tanker on earth could carry JP-7, so the Air Force built one for the SR-71 Blackbird. The KC-135Q had isolated tanks and separate...