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Fifty Years Later, the SR-71 Blackbird Is Still the Fastest Plane Ever BuiltOf course, the all-black, almost alien-looking SR-71 was not America’s first success in creating high-flying, covert ...
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What It Took To Build The SR-71 BlackbirdThe legendary SR-71 Blackbird retains the record for America ... of the USSR on a regular basis was required. The CIA’s U-2 spy plane was first developed to fulfill this need.
but the 1960 downing of Francis Gary 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 a ...
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Inside the U-2: World’s Most Mysterious Spy PlaneDesigned at the height of the Cold War, this high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft has outlasted spy satellites, cutting-edge drones, and even the legendary SR-71 Blackbird. But what makes it so ...
Head-on view from slightly above the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird, beautifully lit from the darkness of its storage building at the National Air and Space Museum, September 21, 2000. Eric Long / NASM ...
“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 ...
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