An aircraft unlike any other appeared suddenly on Feb. 29, 1964. President Lyndon Johnson announced the existence of the Lockheed “A-11,” a real aircraft with a purposely fake designation. The ...
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Mach 3.55: How Fast Can the SR-71 Blackbird Really Fly?
The SR-71 Blackbird, the world’s fastest air-breathing manned aircraft, held its speed record not because of its airframe’s ...
Taken at Hill Air Force Base (AFB) in June 2016, the interesting clip in this post shows SR-71C, “The Bastard” S/N 61-7981, that was the only C model Blackbird ever built and was the last SR-71 to be ...
SR-71 Was the Fastest Plane Ever. It Could Have Been a Fighter Jet. One historian recently said that the Blackbird could have been modified to become a fighter plane. Enter the YF-12. The SR-71 ...
The National Museum of the U.S. Air Force will offer visitors the chance to look into the cockpit of one of the fastest aircrafts flown operationally in the Air Force this weekend. The SR-71 ...
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