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

Of course, the all-black, almost alien-looking SR-71 was not America’s first success in creating high-flying, covert ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...