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

Summary and Key Points: In June 2024, the SR-71 community gathered in Reno, Nevada, for the twenty-fifth and final anniversary hosted by the Blackbird Association, attended by those associated with ...

MUSCLE SHOALS — Everyone on the tarmac was excited when the SR-71 Blackbird arrived at Dulles International Airport near Washington, D.C., in March 1990, except Lt. Col. Ed Yielding and his co-pilot, ...

Born from the need to replace the vulnerable U-2 spy plane, the SR-71 Blackbird was an engineering marvel of the Cold War. We ...

As capable as the SR-71 was, no aircraft is invincible. Over time, a specially trained Swedish JA-37 Viggen unit developed a successful process for intercepting SR-71s as they flew along the same ...

The U.S. Air Force Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird Long-Range Mach 3 Military Reconnaissance Jet Aircraft – A Skunk Works Black Project – in 1966. (Getty Images/P. Wallick) There are an unending number of ...

I think the SR-71 is probably the most awesome thing humans have done. It was designed with slide rules, by people who were gifted at visualizing air, long before wind tunnels could get up into that ...

When thinking of spy planes, many people might immediately jump to UAVs, the famous U-2 incident in 1960, or even modern satellite packages. One iconic aerial surveillance tool that many in the United ...

Every Labour Day since 1946, Canada has held its International Air Show on the shores of Lake Ontario near Toronto. It's an incredible display of Canadian, American and allied aircraft, bringing ...

The SR-71 is one of the U.S. Air Force's most prolific aircraft. Other than looking like a futuristic aircraft military model lovers have built for decades, it was designed and built in secret by the ...