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 ...

Though 32 Lockheed SR-71 “Blackbirds” were built, 11 were lost in accidents – yet not a single aircraft was shot down by the enemy. Of the surviving aircraft, one is now located at the Smithsonian ...

Curator Dik Daso describes the pressure suit worn by SR-71 crew. Learn more about the Lockheed SR-71A Blackbird on display at the National Air and Space Museum's ...

Every last component of the Blackbird was specialized and distinct; the jet needed to do things no other jet could do. As a result, the SR-71 shared roughly zero commonality with any other airframe.

For the first time in 40 years, the fastest jet flight crew in the world reunited with the once super-secret spy plane that put them in the history books. At the Museum of Aviation in Warner Robins, ...

MUSCLE SHOALS — Everyone on the tarmac was excited when the SR-71 Blackbird arrived at Dulles International Airport near Washington, D.C., in March 1990, except Lt. Col. Ed Yielding and his co-pilot, ...

Celebrated SR-71 pilot, author and Vietnam hero Brian Shul has Died. His presentations and books made him prominent, but his valor made him a hero. U.S. Air Force Major (Retired) Brian Shul, who ...

I think the SR-71 is probably the most awesome thing humans have done. It was designed with slide rules, by people who were gifted at visualizing air, long before wind tunnels could get up into that ...