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The SR-71 Blackbird cruised above Mach 3 and 80,000 feet, flew over Vietnam, North Korea and the Middle East, and never lost an aircraft...
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The SR-71 Blackbird cruised above Mach 3 and 80,000 feet, flew over Vietnam, North Korea and the Middle East, and never lost an aircraft...
Talk of reviving the SR-71 Blackbird, still the fastest air-breathing aircraft ever at an official Mach 3.32 and an unofficial 3.56, has grown into...
NASA’s X-43A, a 12-foot unmanned lifting body with a hydrogen scramjet and no moving parts, flew three times: the first was blown up in...
Pitched to Congress in 1972 as a $20-million-a-flight space truck, the Space Shuttle flew 135 missions over 30 years at about $1.5 billion each,...
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...
The SR-71 Blackbird’s shape gets the credit, but its two Pratt & Whitney J58 engines did the work: a compressor bleed-bypass that turned a...
A B-52 carried him to 45,000 feet and let go. Sixty seconds of rocket burn emptied 15,400 pounds from the drop tanks, Knight jettisoned...
Shell built JP-7 for the SR-71 with a 140-degree flash point so 80,000 pounds of it could sit in uninsulated tanks at Mach 3.2...
NASA’s 12-foot, 3,300-pound X-43A dropped from a B-52, rode a Pegasus booster, lit a scramjet, and hit Mach 9.64 at 110,000 feet on November...
In 1984, SR-71 tail 61-7974 suffered a violent unstart at 83,000 feet and Mach 3 near the Kola Peninsula. The pilot shut down the...