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

The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird is one of the most iconic aircraft of the United States Air Forcein the Cold War, and represents the pinnacle of engineering. The aircraft was designed as a spy plane able ...

When an airframe is named in reference to the SR-71 Blackbird, you can expect that airframe to be fast. The SR-71 was a Cold War marvel, developed decades ahead of its time, to hit speeds in excess of ...

The SR-71 was derived from the A-12 Oxcart, a black project also built by Lockheed’s famed “Skunk Works” division for the CIA.

The SR-71 Blackbird was an incredible Intelligence asset, it was also a mobile stellar observatory, given the right conditions.

The D-21 drone was developed to be an early spy drone carried by an SR-71-related aircraft and then B-52, but failed on every ...

Aerospace startup Hermeus has taken another step toward challenging the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird’s legendary supersonic speed record as the company’s uncrewed Quarterhorse Mk 2.1 lifted off from ...

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

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, ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. This miniature American flag was on board the Lockheed SR-71A (Blackbird) s/n 61-7972 on its record-setting last flight for delivery to the ...