Students from Tropico Middle School in Rosamond, California, build their own paper planes as part of a project during NASA ...

The official retirement of the SR-71 Blackbird in 1990 was driven more by internal US Air Force politics and budget ...

Following the U-2 spy plane came the development of the A-12 and SR-71 - for the CIA and USAF respectively.These aircraft would first see service over Vietnam, where their stealth tech and high ...

One of its top advantages over the U-2 was its incredible speed that kept it safe. The SR-71 was so quick that it remains the fastest air-fed plane ever built — even today. With a top speed of ...

As Cold War tensions heightened during the 1950s, the CIA began flying the U-2 spy plane to keep tabs on ... and later considered a high speed bomber, the B-71 (coming numerically after the ...

On one side, there was the Lockheed team who'd designed and built the U-2 in the first place. In the time before the A-12/SR-71 design was finalized, a few altogether different proposals were ...

One iconic aerial surveillance tool that many in the United States will remember is the SR-71 Blackbird. The aircraft was built in the wake of the U-2 downing's political drama. Concocted by ...

Called the SR-71—SR for Strategic Reconnaissance—it ... because the U.S. stopped Soviet overflights after the 1960 U-2 incident. However, SR-71s were used over Eastern Europe, the Middle ...

The SR-71 Blackbird, the most impressive plane ever ... "migrations"-proof that its range is truly worldwide. The Lockheed U-2 subsonic, high-altitude reconnaissance, plane first flew in 1955.

Lockheed developed the line of SR-71 jets because of a request from the ... Previous Lockheed jets like the U-2 and the A-12 served as precursors to the Blackbird, with some of the technology ...