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The SR-71 Blackbird Was a Legend But Even Legends Can Suffer Mechanical Failures The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird spy plane (AKA the “Habu”) remains the...
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The SR-71 Blackbird Was a Legend But Even Legends Can Suffer Mechanical Failures The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird spy plane (AKA the “Habu”) remains the...
The SR-71 Blackbird Was An Amazing Cold War Spy Plane: But It Had Some Serious Accidents In 1966, the impossible happened: a man “ejected”...
The SR-71 Blackbird Story (and Nearly Forgotten A-12) The SR-71 Blackbird was a fantastic aircraft. It was designed and built by Clarence “Kelly” Johnson’s...
How Did the SR-71 Blackbird Evade All of Those Enemy Missiles? It Wasn’t Just Speed You know and love the SR-71 for its death-defying...
Outrunning the Cold War: The Untouchable Legacy of the SR-71 Blackbird Of all the aircraft produced during the Cold War, none has captured the...
The Only Jet to Radar-Lock the SR-71: Inside the Saab JA-37 Viggen The Saab JA-37 Viggen was a highly capable, advanced Swedish Cold War...
The SR-71 Blackbird, a masterpiece of Cold War engineering from Lockheed’s Skunk Works, remains the fastest air-breathing manned aircraft ever to enter operational service....
Summary and Key Points: The SR-71 Blackbird remains the benchmark for manned speed and altitude, designed to survive Cold War air defenses by outrunning...
Summary and Key Points: During Cold War quick-reaction scrambles, Sweden’s JA-37 Viggen crews hunted U.S. and Soviet aircraft near Swedish airspace. And they surely...
Summary and Key Points: A Lockheed test mission in 1966 turned into a near-instant catastrophe when an SR-71 flying Mach 3.18 at 79,000 feet...