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 ...

A four-part quartz glass windshield resisted both heat and distortion when the SR-71 Blackbird was flying at speeds exceeding ...

Meet the SR-71: It is hard not to be impressed when seeing the Lockheed SR-71 up close, even if it is difficult for many to fully appreciate the significance of the aircraft. Today, it is possible to ...

The National Museum of the United States Air Force will host a "Secrets Revealed" event on March 7-8 featuring SR-71 and U-2 aircraft. The event includes panel discussions, presentations by former ...

At Mach 3, friction with the atmosphere raised the SR-71’s skin temperatures to a searing 500 degrees Fahrenheit—hot enough to make the fuselage glow red.

Here’s What You Need To Remember: Peter Merlin, an aviation historian described how much of an effort was required to get the SR-71 into the air. “It took an army of people to prepare the aircraft. A ...

Lockheed’s SR-71 was designed to be untouchable—fast, high, and hard to see. Over the Baltic, however, Sweden’s Saab JA-37 Viggen proved uniquely capable of radar-locking and visually intercepting ...

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 the perennial game of aeronautical anatomy-waving contests, the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird wins every time. All the world's achievements in aviation in the last 120 years don't hit home in most ...