While the SR-71 Blackbird gets all the press, the rocket-powered X-15 has its own richly deserved place in the aviation ...

Aircraft storage at Davis-Monthan Field started in 1945 when the Army Air Forces formed the 4105th Base Unit to store extra ...

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 ...

TUCSON, AZ — One of the world’s largest aerospace museums, the Pima Air and Space ... The museum houses iconic aircraft such as the F-14 Tomcat, made famous by Top Gun, the SR-71 Blackbird ...

The SR-71 is ... the last SR-71 ever made, at the Hill Aerospace Museum at Hill AFB in Utah, or see one of its siblings up close and personal at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum ...

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 ...

The SR-71 Blackbird is one of the United States ... with the record-setting final flight of the aircraft housed at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum. Lt. Col. Joseph Vida flew the plane ...

Permanent exhibits allow you to play with and investigate sound, light, air and water. Spanning 390,000 square feet, the Science Museum ... like the Space Shuttle Discovery, a SR-71 Blackbird ...

which could be “scrambled” and in the air within minutes, each flight of the SR-71 was more like a space launch of the era. Getting the Blackbird into the sky took hours of preparation and a ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...