Although flight testing began at the end of 1964, the first operational flight didn’t take place until 1968 ... strategic reconnaissance. The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird spy plane flew more ...

Though the SR-71 could at times be detected by enemy radar and, in some cases, potentially targeted, the SR-71 evasion technique was to accelerate and take advantage of its enormously powerful ...

Head-on view from slightly above the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird ... but as the Blackbird came in for its final pass, a hundred feet off the runway, and then pulled up just beyond the tower, the ...

In this episode we stop and take a look at the famous SR-71 Blackbirds on display at the Lockheed Martin Skunkworks facility!

While this never came to fruition, an offshoot proposal to create an interceptor Blackbird variant emerged two years later. The SR-71 “I” idea came from Lockheed Martin and called for newer ...

In 2013, Lockheed Martin announced development of the successor to the SR-71 Blackbird spy plane. The SR-71 was capable of reaching speeds over three times the speed of sound, and the SR-72 is ...