During its service, the SR-71 flew numerous high-risk missions and was targeted by more than 4,000 missiles. Not a single one ...

Key Points and Summary: The SR-71 Blackbird’s high-speed missions were fraught with challenges, including catastrophic engine failures at Mach 3. -Crews like Colonel Richard Sheffield and his ...

Expensive to maintain and fly, the SR-71 was retired from the Air Force in 1990. Blackbird number 972 ... when airflow within an engine’s finely tuned inlet was disrupted, resulting in a ...

The Soviet bomber fleet grew to over 2,000 airframes, starting with piston-engine planes and then evolving to jet-powered ...

albeit with a supercharged V8 engine behind the two seats. Now, they're back with a fake special edition dubbed C9 Chevy Corvette SR-71 Blackbird. Obviously, they made the sports car as stealthy ...

On this May the Fourth, stories of supernatural forces and unidentified phenomena in Butte County and the surrounding area ...

Ben Oliver explores why humans are willing to risk it all for the sensation for speed, in talks with experts and Wing ...

So they made it with an engine. It has 1.17 times the thrust ... Then of course, there's the airplane of all airplanes, the SR-71 Blackbird. This airplane flew over the nuclear missile silos ...

As you enter the aviation hangar, you're brought face to face with the imposing SR-71 Blackbird spy plane ... a legacy of momentous consequence. No engine in the great room makes a sound, and ...

I love it - every designer says their influence is a Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird (designer Melville even jokes about ... element of the Tasman after its styling is its choice of engine. Sourced from the ...