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The complete SR-72 Darkstar guide: the 2013 reveal, Lockheed's statements, the 2018 vanishing, the Top Gun mockup, and where the Mach 6 program stands...
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The complete SR-72 Darkstar guide: the 2013 reveal, Lockheed's statements, the 2018 vanishing, the Top Gun mockup, and where the Mach 6 program stands...
SR-71 Blackbird engineers found that spot-welded titanium parts made in summer were failing early in service, while parts welded in winter held up. Nothing...
The SR-71 aircraft designed to outrun and out-photograph the Soviet Union had a problem: it had to be made of titanium, and the Soviets...
The SR-71's propulsion was far more than two engines. At speeds above Mach 3, the movable inlet spike, bypass system and exhaust worked together,...
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...