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The Air Force retired the SR-71 Blackbird in January 1990, officially over cost. A new memoir by Colonel Richard “Butch” Sheffield, a retired Blackbird...
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The Air Force retired the SR-71 Blackbird in January 1990, officially over cost. A new memoir by Colonel Richard “Butch” Sheffield, a retired Blackbird...
Before Lockheed drew the SR-71, Soviet designer Pavel Tsybin was already sketching a Mach 3 spy plane. His RSR, for jet strategic reconnaissance, began...
Kelly Johnson’s YF-12A took the A-12 Oxcart airframe, added a second crewman, the Hughes AN/ASG-18 pulse-Doppler radar and bays for AIM-47A Falcon missiles, and...
Lockheed once sketched a carrier-based Blackbird. The A-12CB would have left an aircraft carrier deck with Rocketdyne boosters borrowed from the F-104G zero-length-launch program,...
The F-22 Raptor was built to fight over Europe, and its 500-to-590-nautical-mile combat radius shows it. Against a Chinese arsenal that can range every...
The SR-71 Blackbird flew above 80,000 feet at Mach 3, high and fast enough that Soviet missiles and interceptors could not reach it. On...
Canada’s trade war with Washington has stalled its planned 88-jet F-35 buy. Ottawa is legally committed to 16 and has put down payments on...
For F-4 Phantom crews, the saying went that two ejections ended a flying career, not as punishment but because the G-forces of the seat...
China marked the 15th anniversary of the J-20’s maiden flight on January 11, 2026, by announcing that the two-seat J-20S Mighty Dragon is meant...
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...