If there is one aircraft that could be termed the craziest development in aviation history, it would be the SR-71, the world’s fastest jet-propelled aircraft. The Blackbird was a top performer in ...

Since the early 2010s, I have dragged my wife to just about every SR-71 Blackbird museum exhibit within driving distance, or sent my staff to take photos if they were close by, many of which are in ...

The venerable Cold War SR-71 Blackbird may be looking nervously at its laurels after Hermeus's latest Quarterhorse Mk 2.1 ...

At this point in the Blackbird program, all the specialized tooling that Lockheed Martin had invented to work with these ...

Back in 1976, Major General Eldon Wayne Joersz and Lieutenant Colonel George T. Morgan Jr. climbed on board a Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird and set the absolute world speed record for a manned, ...

More than 60 years after it graced the skies for the first time, Lockheed's SR-71 Blackbird remains the fastest manned plane ever developed. With the ability to hit a maximum speed of 2,193 miles per ...

The SR-71 Blackbird, the fastest aircraft ever built, was ultimately done in by the Air Force’s most notorious and intractable enemy: budget cuts. The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird remains one of the most ...