The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird is the fastest and highest military aircraft ever built, reaching speeds of Mach 3.2 and ...

When the Blackbird entered service with the Air Force in 1966, it was simply too advanced for existing fuel and navigation ...

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 ...

Ed Yielding and RSO (Reconnaissance ... FB page). The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird flew for the first time on Dec. 22, 1964 at Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California. The first aircraft to enter ...

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 ...

During the Cold War, the US Air Force operated the world's fastest air-breathing aircraft - the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird. Colonel Rich Graham tells BBC Future what made it so special. It was a ...

The SR-71 is an American supersonic Cold-War-era jet that was also called the Blackbird ... Like the U-2, the SR-71 was built by aircraft giant Lockheed Aircraft Corporation.

Today, the SR-71 is still considered to be the highest-flying, fastest aircraft ever built. When the Blackbird was relegated to retirement in the late 1990s, aviation buffs speculated on Lockheed ...

In 2013, Lockheed Martin announced development of the successor to the SR-71 Blackbird spy plane ... The jet will be an unmanned hypersonic aircraft. Lockheed claims it will reach speeds topping ...