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

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 famed SR-71 spy plane at the Virginia Aviation Museum got off the ground for the first time in decades to take a practice roll Monday. Still looking futuristic even though it was designed more ...

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 ...