The SR-71 Blackbird, the world’s fastest air-breathing manned aircraft, held its speed record not because of its airframe’s ...

The SR-71 Blackbird remains an aviation icon, decades after being retired. The aircraft was one of the most visually distinct, and technically distinct, aircraft ever built. The SR-71 looked like ...

Back in 1976, one of America's SR-71 Blackbird spy planes shot through the sky at speeds of Mach 3.3. That's 2,193.2 mph or 3,529.6 kph, numbers that back then marked an absolute speed record for a ...

It’s time to grab your favorite drink and have your jaw drop to the floor. According to the U.S. Air Force, the “J58 engine was developed in the late 1950s by Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Division of ...

Back in 1976, at the height of the Cold War, one of America's most secretive planes, the SR-71 Blackbird, managed to achieve a tremendous feat: it traveled at a speed of Mach 3, which is 2,193.2 mph ...

For the first time in 40 years, the fastest jet flight crew in the world reunited with the once super-secret spy plane that put them in the history books. At the Museum of Aviation in Warner Robins, ...

In a bid to outdo the world speed record of the famous Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird spyplane, aerospace technology company Hermeus has completed ground testing of its first fully-integrated prototype ...

The SR-71 is perhaps the most iconic Cold War spy aircraft, famous for many record-setting flights. Seemingly impervious to loss by enemy defenses, a dozen Blackbirds were lost to accidents. On July ...