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The SR-71 Blackbird Grew Out of the CIA’s A-12 Oxcart Program — And Immediately Competed With CORONA Reconnaissance Satellites for Funding At 19FortyFive, part...
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The SR-71 Blackbird Grew Out of the CIA’s A-12 Oxcart Program — And Immediately Competed With CORONA Reconnaissance Satellites for Funding At 19FortyFive, part...
The Lockheed YF-12 Hit Mach 3 and 80,257 Feet in 1965 — Then the Tet Offensive Ended Its Air Force Career In the 1960s,...
The SR-71 Blackbird Could Hit Mach 3, But Accidents Did Happen The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird spy plane—also referred to as the “Habu” in honor...
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....