Flying at altitudes and speeds unheard of for contemporary jet aircraft, the Blackbird family required a fuel with unique ...

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 ...

The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird is unlike virtually any plane that came before it, and virtually no planes like it have been ...

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, ...

Every last component of the Blackbird was specialized and distinct; the jet needed to do things no other jet could do. As a result, the SR-71 shared roughly zero commonality with any other airframe.

To say that the feature-packed SR-71 Blackbird is a work of art would be a disservice to the gifted hands and minds that willed it into existence. The aircraft has six world records under its belt, ...

As Cold War tensions heightened during the 1950s, the CIA began flying the U-2 spy plane to keep tabs on the Soviet Union’s fast expanding nuclear weapons capabilities. Ungainly and relatively ...

HUTCHINSON, Kan. (KSNW) — It is one of the most iconic aircraft to ever take to the sky and the fastest. The Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center in Hutchinson will be celebrating the legacy of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

For people who are into horses, this kind of animal doesn't get any better than a quarter horse. That's because the name is an umbrella term for horses no matter their breed that are stocky and ...