The SR-71 Blackbird is a legend in the world of military aircraft, and NASA may have received one a bit earlier than it was ...
In the early 1980s, Lockheed’s Skunk Works proposed converting the SR-71 Blackbird — the Mach 3+ reconnaissance aircraft that ...
Titanium is fantastically expensive, and difficult to fabricate, relative to other materials—meaning it was only ever practical to use on the world’s fastest plane. The story of manned flight is ...
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’s earned world record for speed has never been topped by a successor. The fastest jet to ever fly the skies is surprisingly not a fifth-generation platform designed in the last ...
Lockheed Martin has named a new head for the company’s secretive advanced development programmes unit, better known as Skunk Works. As part of a leadership shuffle announced on 3 December, OJ Sanchez ...