When the Blackbird entered service with the Air Force in 1966, it was simply too advanced for existing fuel and navigation ...

Could the SR-71 Blackbird Served As A Fighter Jet? The SR-71 Blackbird was an aircraft that looked like it was straight out of a Sci-Fi comic book when it first burst on the scene. Designed by the ...

This incredible aircraft was the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird. First taking to the skies in 1964, the SR-71 was built for high-speed, high-altitude reconnaissance missions, meaning it was used to gather ...

“Faster than a speeding bullet” may bring to mind a certain superhero from the planet Krypton, but it was literally true of the SR-71 Blackbird, the sleek, stealthy Air Force spy plane taken ...

However, none of these spinoffs entered service, and the A-12 was retired in favor of an Air Force operated variant, the SR-71. The A-12 mounted a single high-resolution camera that recorded a ...

Even if the development of the hypersonic strike aircraft dubbed SR-72 has been announced, its predecessor, the iconic Mach 3 SR-71 Blackbird, remains one of the fastest planes ever flown ...

Some corporate airplanes can fly up to 51,000 feet. The Concorde flew up to 60,000 feet, and the all-time high flier was the SR-71 which could go over 80,000 feet. Some experimental airplanes flew ...

More than 30 years after its retirement from active service, the Lockheed SR-71’s hold on our imagination is still as powerful as ever. A large, matte-black, arrowhead-shaped airplane ...

Called the SR-71—SR for Strategic Reconnaissance—it first flew on December 22, 1964, piloted by Robert “Bob” Gilliland, a Lockheed test pilot. According to the National Museum of the U.S ...

Gen. Eldon “Al” Joersz and Lt. Col. George “GT” Morgan climbed into the cockpit Thursday of their Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird on the 40th anniversary of their record-breaking flight.

The Lockheed SR-71, designed in secrecy in the late 1950s, was able to cruise near the edge of space and outfly a missile. To this day, it holds the records for the highest altitude in horizontal ...