rockets and more that got humans off the ground and into space. Faster than a speeding bullet, the retired SR-71 Blackbird can still turn heads as a Cold War spy plane designed for flying high and ...

The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird is a visitor favorite at the National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center. Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum Lieutenant Colonel Ed Yeilding ...

When the Blackbird entered service with the Air Force in 1966, it was simply too advanced for existing fuel and navigation ...

The Lockheed SR-71, designed in secrecy in ... of people to prepare the aircraft. A Blackbird operational mission essentially had a countdown, like a space mission did, because there was so ...

the SR-71 was retired from the Air Force in 1990. Blackbird number 972, which set four international speed records that year, now is on display at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum ...

A veteran U.S. Air Force pilot and volunteer at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., has given us a small glimpse of what it was like to fly the SR-71 Blackbird. Adelbert “Buz ...

The SR-71 wasn't like other planes ... headed to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. In typical Blackbird fashion, it set four speed records on the way. Pilot Lt Col Ed Yielding ...

Aviation Week’s Guy Norris has an exclusive article on the successor for the Lockheed Martin SR-71 Blackbird, the legendary spy plane that may be the favorite of every airplane nerd in the world.

The SR-71 Blackbird, the most impressive plane ever created at the time, remained a mystery even 20 years after its first flight. But in the July 1982 issue, Popular Mechanics published a tell-all ...

Additionally, the lack of space for internal ordnance and the ... The B-71 Plan Failed: The SR-71 Blackbird was never hit or damaged by enemy fire. It eluded an estimated 4,000 surface-to-air ...

The Lockheed SR-71, designed in secrecy in ... of people to prepare the aircraft. A Blackbird operational mission essentially had a countdown, like a space mission did, because there was so ...