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

The SR-71 Blackbird was one of the most remarkable machines ever built. Designed during the Cold War for long-range ...

The SR-71 Blackbird, the fastest aircraft ever built, was ultimately done in by the Air Force’s most notorious 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 shot ...

Nicknamed after an illegitimate child, the SR-71C was, remarkably, two separate SR-71s pieced together. “The forward half of 981 was actually never meant to fly at all,” Bill Walton wrote. “The ...

The SR-71 is one of the U.S. Air Force's most prolific aircraft. Other than looking like a futuristic aircraft military model lovers have built for decades, it was designed and built in secret by the ...

On the cover of Aviation Week’s Jan. 20, 1990, issue, a U.S. Air Force/Lockheed SR-71 flies over Lake Almanor in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. The Air Force had announced the phasing out of the program ...

The SR-71 Blackbird was the world's fastest jet. Capable of of flying as high as 85,000 feet at Mach 3.3 (2,193.2 mph), the Blackbird was used for intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance. It ...