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The F-15's radar had a speed gate set at 1,500 knots. SR-71 crews were cruising between 1,850 and 2,000. As pilot Richard Graham put...
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The F-15's radar had a speed gate set at 1,500 knots. SR-71 crews were cruising between 1,850 and 2,000. As pilot Richard Graham put...
The wounded SR-71 descended to about 25,000 feet, and at that altitude and reduced speed, it was no longer an unreachable object at the...
The X-30 was to take off from a commercial runway like an ordinary aircraft, accelerate toward Mach 25, enter low-Earth orbit, and land conventionally...
The SR-71 set a 2,193.167 mph record, gathered intelligence above 80,000 feet and was retired over cost and changing priorities.
The F-16XL doubled payload, extended range and lost to the F-15E before NASA used two prototypes for decades of supersonic research.
Flying the Korean DMZ out of Kadena on a moonless night, former SR-71 pilot David Peters described a view unavailable from the ground: "We...
An SR-71 lost effective thrust at 83,000 feet near the Soviet Kola Peninsula, fell 65,000 feet, and reached a tanker with minutes left.
A demonstrator was supposed to be flying by 2025. Instead: no photos, no leaks, no acknowledgment. What the silence around Lockheed's "Son of Blackbird"...
No missile ever touched it. No fighter ever caught it. And still a third of the fleet was destroyed — by the only force...
In 1967, Pete Knight flew Mach 6.72 and was called the fastest man alive. For thirty years, the Space Shuttle made that number look...