Photos and captions courtesy of Lockheed Martin ... 23 May 1995 captures the pure power of an SR-71 ‘Blackbird’ high altitude reconnaissance aircraft on takeoff.

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

Behold the cockpit of one of the finest spy planes ever built, the SR-71 Blackbird. The Blackbird, created by Lockheed ... recon officer would take detailed photos of hundreds of thousands of ...

The SR-71 Blackbird is one of history's great aircraft. It was built during the Cold War in the early 1960s by Lockheed at its secret Skunk Works facility and flew from 1966 to 1998.

The Lockheed SR-71 ... the final tally for the Blackbird family to 50. The fuselage of the SR-71 included some of the very first composite materials ever used in an aircraft, which made the ...

Following the loss of a U-2 reconnaissance aircraft ... the Blackbird’s “radar cross-section by 90 percent!” As described by the Smithsonian Institution, “the Lockheed SR-71 was a twin ...

Unarmed, the Blackbird took pictures and used a ... just the curator of the Museum’s Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird, he’s also a fan of the spectacular Mach 3 aircraft. In 1974, this Blackbird ...

No missile in the world came as close as the North Vietnamese SAM did to catching a Blackbird. The Lockheed SR-71 and its A-12 predecessor ... Virtually every aspect of the aircraft had to be ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ... with more than 200 photos.

The Lockheed SR-71 ... the final tally for the Blackbird family to 50. The fuselage of the SR-71 included some of the very first composite materials ever used in an aircraft, which made the ...