The SR-71 Blackbird was so fast it could outrun missiles—and did. Flying at Mach 3.3 and over 90,000 feet, this Cold War ...

The SR-71 is perhaps the most iconic Cold War spy aircraft, famous for many record-setting flights. Seemingly impervious to ...

The Lockheed SR-71, designed in secrecy in the late 1950s ... In May 1960, an American U-2 spy plane was shot duown in Soviet airspace while taking aerial photographs. Initially, the US government ...

The SR-71 Blackbird is a fantastic aircraft ... The CIA approached Johnson about finding a replacement for the U-2 spy plane, which could fly at extreme altitudes but was slow.

Here’s What You Need To Remember: The Blackbird wouldn’t stay officially secret for much longer. Pres. Lyndon Johnson would run for election in 1964, and to counter criticisms from Republican Sen.

Until Lockheed Martin finally builds the SR-72 Mach-6 spy plane it announced in November 2013 — and which reportedly appeared in plain view for the first time in July 2017 — the iconic SR-71 ...

This is part of a SPACE.com series of articles on the Most Amazing Flying Machines Ever, the balloons, airplanes, rockets and more that got humans off the ground and into space. Faster than 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 ...

Flying and maintaining the SR-71 was expensive. Nonetheless, the aircraft was such a valuable spy tool that Washington had a hard time breaking up with it. It could do things satellites couldn’t.

The Lockheed SR-71, designed in secrecy in the late 1950s ... In May 1960, an American U-2 spy plane was shot duown in Soviet airspace while taking aerial photographs. Initially, the US government ...