The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird spy plane flew more than three-and-a-half times the speed of sound, so fast that no other aircraft could catch it. "SR-71" covers every aspect of the SR-71’s ...

The SR-71 Blackbird’s high-speed missions were fraught with challenges, including catastrophic engine failures at Mach 3.

Lockheed Martin’s infamous ... Powers’s U-2 over the USSR highlighted the aircraft’s vulnerability against Soviet air defenses. The SR-71 Blackbird project was designed to evolve into ...

Developed during the Cold War to spy on the Soviet Union, the SR-71 Blackbird was nothing short of a revolutionary, ...

The jet will be an unmanned hypersonic aircraft. Lockheed claims it will reach ... announced development of the successor to the SR-71 Blackbird spy plane. The SR-71 was capable of reaching ...

NASA released video footage of the SR-71 Blackbird, the high-altitude recon aircraft capable of reaching speeds over Mach 3. More from Military & Defense A triangle pointing right which indicates ...

Head-on view from slightly above the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird ... whose lives were forever touched by this aircraft. I too was part of the Blackbird team, setting up housing, transportation ...

INCREDIBLE plans have been revealed for a hypersonic superjet dubbed “Son of Blackbird” that could soon become the world’s fastest aircraft. Building on the legacy of the SR-71 ...

The SR-72 is the successor to the SR-71 Blackbird spy plane ... The jet will be an unmanned hypersonic aircraft. Lockheed claims it will reach speeds topping Mach 6 (over 4,500 mph) and they ...