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Lockheed never flight-tested the SR-71 past Mach 3.2, yet Ed Yeilding and J.T. Vida cruised at Mach 3.3 for most of the Blackbird’s final...
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Lockheed never flight-tested the SR-71 past Mach 3.2, yet Ed Yeilding and J.T. Vida cruised at Mach 3.3 for most of the Blackbird’s final...
Every SR-71 “flaw” was a trade. Its 80-percent-titanium airframe stretched by inches at 2,000-plus mph, so 1960s sealants couldn’t hold the integral tanks shut...
Satellite imagery obtained by Aviation Week shows the SR-71A displayed at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center at Edwards has been moved, and NASA has...
In 2013 Lockheed Martin publicly outlined the SR-72, an unmanned or optionally piloted Mach 6 successor to the SR-71 using a turbine-to-scramjet combined-cycle engine,...
Nobody walked off the street into an SR-71 cockpit. Candidates were already seasoned jet pilots, and the transition to qualified Blackbird pilot or reconnaissance...
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...
From about 1982 the SR-71 Blackbird flew ‘Tomcat Chase’ sorties against Navy F-14s over the Pacific and ‘Eagle Bait’ against Air Force F-15s 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,...