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Lockheed Martin unveiled plans for the SR-72, nicknamed the Son of Blackbird, in 2013: a reusable hypersonic aircraft meant to reach Mach 6, about...
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Lockheed Martin unveiled plans for the SR-72, nicknamed the Son of Blackbird, in 2013: a reusable hypersonic aircraft meant to reach Mach 6, about...
As the SR-71 Blackbird neared retirement, rumors spread of a faster successor: a classified hypersonic reconnaissance aircraft called the SR-91 Aurora, said to exceed...
Former SR-71 pilot Brian Shul told the story in Sled Driver: a January mission out of RAF Mildenhall with RSO Walt Watson, bound north...
On March 21, 1968, an SR-71 Blackbird flew its first operational mission over North Vietnam at 78,000 feet and Mach 3.17. The threat came...
The SR-71 Blackbird is still the fastest air-breathing aircraft, Mach 3.32 officially and 3.56 unofficially, 62 years after its first flight. The Air Force...
After the 1960 U-2 shootdown, the CIA wanted a plane nothing could catch: Lockheed’s A-12 Oxcart, Mach 3.2 at 90,000 feet, tested at Area...
After one of the Air Force’s two SR-71B trainers crashed on January 11, 1968, Lockheed built a replacement from parts: the forward fuselage of...
The SR-71 Blackbird was built to spy on the Soviet Union and built from Soviet titanium. Lockheed needed the metal for more than 80%...
On June 29, 1987, an SR-71 lost an engine to an explosion over the Baltic with Soviet airspace to its right, fell from 80,000...
Summary and Key Points: Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird US Air Force pilot Dave Peters took off from Kadena at 10 AM on a Saturday, refueled...