The SR-71 Blackbird is one of the most iconic aircraft of the Cold War. It was famously able to outsmart 4,000 missiles and ...

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 ...

Birth and retirement Lockheed Martin first proposed the idea of the SR-71 in the 1950s as a replacement for the slower U-2 spy aircraft. The first version of what would become the Blackbird ...

During its service, the SR-71 flew numerous high-risk missions and was targeted by more than 4,000 missiles. Not a single one ever struck it.

According to aviation historian Peter Merlin, a great deal of effort was required to get an SR-71 into the air. “It took an army of people to prepare the aircraft. A Blackbird operational ...

A veteran U.S. Air Force pilot and volunteer at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., has given us a small glimpse of what it was like to fly the SR-71 Blackbird. Adelbert “Buz ...

During the Cold War, the SR-71 Blackbird spy plane could fly higher and faster than any other -- and 55 years after its first flight, it still does.Get the full story in the video below ...

“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 ...

The Blackbird was created for long-range ... Like the U-2, the SR-71 was built by aircraft giant Lockheed Aircraft Corporation. This company later formed Lockheed Martin in 1995 after merging ...

bringing the final tally for the Blackbird family to 50. The fuselage of the SR-71 included some of the very first composite materials ever used in an aircraft, which made the plane harder to spot ...