The National Museum of the U.S. Air Force will offer visitors the chance to look into the cockpit of one of the fastest aircrafts flown operationally in the Air Force this weekend. The SR-71 ...

The SR-71 did not simply fade into a museum corner; it left service with the same aura of speed and mystery that defined its ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The pilot “basically wore a space suit, the same sort of thing that you would later see space shuttle crews wearing,” Merlin added. “The cockpit also got very hot ...

Watch the impressive engineering in this in-depth tour of the SR-71 Blackbird's jet engine and you'll see an extraordinary reconnaissance aircraft that still impresses despite taking its first flight ...

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, ...

During the Vietnam War, when the famous SR-71 Blackbirds conducted reconnaissance missions, they always had cover from fighter jets, even though no SR-71 was ever shot down in its entire life. But one ...

The SR-71 is perhaps the most iconic Cold War spy aircraft, famous for many record-setting flights. Seemingly impervious to loss by enemy defenses, a dozen Blackbirds were lost to accidents. On July ...

Key Points and Summary - The SR-71 Blackbird, the world's fastest air-breathing manned aircraft, held its speed record not because of its airframe's limits, but due to a crucial safety restriction on ...

The SR-71 Blackbird is easily one of the world's most iconic aircraft. They first took to the skies in the 1960s, and by the turn of the century, they were retired. Nowadays, you can only find SR-71s ...