The SR-71 Blackbird is one of the most iconic American aircraft of all time. For its purposes, the plane was an astonishing success; the aircraft’s cruising speed exceeded Mach 3, simply outrunning ...

The SR-71 is one of the U.S. Air Force's most prolific aircraft. Other than looking like a futuristic aircraft military model lovers have built for decades, it was designed and built in secret by the ...

The SR-72 “Darkstar” is designed as a successor to the iconic SR-71 Blackbird. According to the designers at Lockheed Martin, the plane can travel at hypersonic speeds up to Mach 6. The Darkstar ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: So far, the SR-72 exists only on paper; none of the aircraft have yet been built, let alone flown. More than fifty years after its maiden flight in 1964, the SR-71 ...

"After the Lockheed SR-71 was withdrawn from circulation in 1998 and replaced by more traditional reconnaissance aircraft, the best spy plane of all time left a significant gap in intelligence, ...

The SR-71 Blackbird was developed by Lockheed's Skunk Works in the 1960s to meet the urgent Cold War need for a high-speed, high-altitude, stealthy reconnaissance aircraft following the U-2 incident.

Ask any military aviation enthusiast or veteran what they think is the fastest jet of all time, and there's little doubt they'd answer, 'The SR-71 Blackbird.' However, they'd be incorrect, though with ...

One of the stars of the new film Top Gun: Maverick is the SR-72 Darkstar hypersonic aircraft. The SR-72 doesn’t really exist, but engineers at Lockheed Martin had a hand in its development. The ...