Finally, the SR-71 did its job and outran the enemy bogeys. Later, the flight camera recording showed there were actually two incoming SAMs that could have shot down the Blackbird, so this was a ...

The tracking camera was insurance against any accusations ... and Legends; Flying the SR-71 Blackbird; and the commentary for the SR-71 Flight Manual.

The SR-71 Blackbird is, without a doubt ... Since moving behind the camera in 1982, he created some of the most enduring images in aviation history. The Spotlight photo this week is Denny ...

The sleek and sinister SR-71 Blackbird looks like it belongs in a ... The A-12 mounted a single high-resolution camera that recorded a broad swath of terrain directly underneath the aircraft.

SR-71 pilot Brian Shul chats with New ... of fuel from refueling spillage I ended up flying the Blackbird for four years, I carried a camera – photography was my big passion – and I ended ...

“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 ...

It's a bird! It's a plane! You could argue it's both. The SR-71 is an American supersonic Cold-War-era jet that was also called the Blackbird. It earned this name from its special matte-black ...

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 ...

More than 30 years after its retirement from active service, the Lockheed SR-71’s hold on our imagination is still as powerful as ever. A large, matte-black, arrowhead-shaped airplane, the SR-71 ...

Former SR-71 pilot Brian Shul recounted a 1986 mission over Libya where he pushed the Blackbird beyond its speed limits, exceeding Mach 3.2 in his book "Sled Driver." While some Blackbirds went ...