The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird is a visitor favorite at the National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center. Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum Lieutenant Colonel Ed Yeilding ...

“One of my favorite things to do is watch visitors come into the Udvar-Hazy Center, busy and distracted, and then be totally mesmerized by the sight of the SR ... National Air and Space Museum ...

No need to wait in line—you can experience the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space ... objects in the museum’s collection. Introduced in the mid-1960s, the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird spy ...

The Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center near Washington Dulles International Airport is the companion facility to the museum in Washington, D.C. Hundreds of historically significant air- and spacecraft, along ...

A Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird. A Dassault Falcon 20 that was the first aircraft to be owned and operated by FedEx Express. Where to find the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum The National Air ...

Key point: A cold war spy plane, the SR ... air literally had to be slowed down to subsonic speeds before entering the jet engines,” the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum explained ...

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 ...

Officially retired due to high costs and improving satellite tech, a former SR-71 ... air, and the unlikeliness that anything like her will ever fly again. Harrison Kass is a defense and national ...

It now rests at the National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center at Dulles Airport. Even today, standing ...

at the National Air and Space Museum. | Credit: Smithsonian/Mark Avino Other areas of the National Air and Space Museum reopening at the same time include three aviation-themed halls — "Barron ...

The National Museum of the U.S ... more than any other SR-71. [Photo Credit: Ty Greenlees] “Speed and the SR-71 still provided great tools to the U.S. Air Force, but not every air platform ...

the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum on the National Mall in Washington will be opening up eight overhauled exhibitions on Friday, October 14. And if you want to be one of the first ...