The U.S. Air Force retired the SR-71 Blackbird in 1997, saying it was too expensive to maintain and could be replaced by ...

Top that off with the awesome-looking, specially designed pressure suits made for wear by SR-71 pilots, and it’s no wonder ...

The SR-71 Blackbird's most remarkable feature was undoubtedly its incredible speed. Capable of reaching speeds up to Mach 3 (approximately 3,500 km/h or 2,200 mph), it outpaced any potential ...

The SR-71 Blackbird is widely known as the highest-performance military jet in U.S. history. In its life, which extended from the 1960s all the way through the 1990s, the spy plane flew ever ...

What You Need to Know: The SR-71 Blackbird, one of the fastest aircraft ever built, was powered by revolutionary Pratt & Whitney engines using single-crystal turbine blades to endure extreme heat ...

When functioning normally, the shock waves stay inside the inlet. If something disrupts this process, the engines lose their ...

The SR-71 Blackbird may have been one of the most secretive aircraft of all time, developed behind closed doors in Lockheed’s Skunkworks. But after some time, it was an aircraft treated like any ...

Developed by Lockheed's Skunk Works division and manufactured by the American aerospace company in just 32 examples, the SR-71 'Blackbird' was probably one of humankind's most innovative jets ever ...

Rancho Mirage - Robert Jordan Gilliland, the first man to fly the world's fastest manned aircraft ever built, the SR-71 Blackbird, died on July 4, 2019 in Rancho Mirage, California at 93 years of ...

To commemorate the Blackbird, Urwerk issued its Electronic Mechanical Control (EMC) SR-71 watch in 2014 with a design that echoes the aesthetics of the spy-plane.

Rancho Mirage - Robert Jordan Gilliland, the first man to fly the world's fastest manned aircraft ever built, the SR-71 Blackbird, died on July 4, 2019 in Rancho Mirage, California at 93 years of ...