While many viewers might know of the SR-71 Blackbird - few know about its rival secret project, the Convair Kingfish - a spy ...

For the first time in 40 years, the fastest jet flight crew in the world reunited with the once super-secret spy plane that put them in the history books. At the Museum of Aviation in Warner Robins, ...

Flying at altitudes and speeds unheard of for contemporary jet aircraft, the Blackbird family required a fuel with unique ...

To say that the feature-packed SR-71 Blackbird is a work of art would be a disservice to the gifted hands and minds that willed it into existence. The aircraft has six world records under its belt, ...

Every last component of the Blackbird was specialized and distinct; the jet needed to do things no other jet could do. As a result, the SR-71 shared roughly zero commonality with any other airframe.

As Cold War tensions heightened during the 1950s, the CIA began flying the U-2 spy plane to keep tabs on the Soviet Union’s fast expanding nuclear weapons capabilities. Ungainly and relatively ...

During the Cold War, this plane could fly higher and faster than any other – and 55 years after its first flight, it still does. The Lockheed SR-71, designed in secrecy in the late 1950s, was able to ...

The SR-71 is perhaps the most iconic Cold War spy aircraft, famous for many record-setting flights. Seemingly impervious to loss by enemy defenses, a dozen Blackbirds were lost to accidents. On July ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. No reconnaissance aircraft in history has operated globally in more hostile airspace or with such complete impunity ...

The SR-71 Blackbird was developed by Lockheed's Skunk Works in the 1960s to meet the urgent Cold War need for a high-speed, high-altitude, stealthy reconnaissance aircraft following the U-2 incident.

In the perennial game of aeronautical anatomy-waving contests, the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird wins every time. All the world's achievements in aviation in the last 120 years don't hit home in most ...

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