During its service, the SR-71 flew numerous high-risk missions and was targeted by more than 4,000 missiles. Not a single one ...

When the Blackbird entered service with the Air Force in 1966, it was simply too advanced for existing fuel and navigation ...

but also shattered speed and altitude records for manned air-breathing jet aircraft. The SR-71 regularly flew missions at speeds beyond 2,000 mph (Mach 3) and could survey more than 100,000 square ...

Carpenter also has more than 300 hours in strategic reconnaissance aircraft, including the U-2 and SR-71, and flew missions from Beale Air Force Base in California, Kadena Air Base in Japan ...

SR-71 – A Titanium Aircraft The Blackbird was the first to utilize titanium alloy – which provided the strength of steel but at a relatively lightweight –for the airframe. Along with its low ...

The whole SR-71 air show affair looked like something of a fish out of water, an aircraft trying to show what it can do on someone else's terms and this is what made it so damn thrilling. 1999 was ...

The sleek and sinister SR-71 Blackbird looks like it belongs in a science fiction movie, though in fact the jet black spy plane proved far more successful at outrunning enemy missiles than any of ...

Standing before the aircraft, it’s not hard to understand the feelings of Air Force test pilot Terry Pappas, who says that of all the planes he flew, the SR-71 “is at the pinnacle. When you ...

As for what we know about the Darkstar, the aircraft was conceived to replace Lockheed's high-altitude SR-71 Blackbird, which remains the fastest military jet in history despite being retired.

Thus, each SR-71 pilot had his own individual 'high' speed ... there was nothing in my windscreen. I banked the jet and started a gentle circling maneuver in hopes of picking up anything that ...