The Lockheed-built SR-71 Blackbird, the fastest plane in history, was designed to replace the U-2 spy plane. This ...

Flying at altitudes and speeds unheard of for contemporary jet aircraft, the Blackbird family required a fuel with unique ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Any plane is only as fast as whatever drives it, and the SR-71 was powered by a pair of Pratt and Whitney J58 turbojet engines. The engines in question, which were ...

What You Need to Know: The SR-71 Blackbird, one of the fastest aircraft ever built, was powered by revolutionary Pratt & Whitney engines using single-crystal turbine blades to endure extreme heat.

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, ...

There are many high-speed air vehicles in the world today, with some of them, namely rockets and missiles, being capable of reaching many times the speed of sound. But only one, the legendary Lockheed ...

The SR-71 Blackbird may have been one of the most secretive aircraft of all time, developed behind closed doors in Lockheed’s Skunkworks. But after some time, it was an aircraft treated like any other ...

Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works is developing the SR-72, a hypersonic spy plane designed to reach Mach 6. The SR-72, intended to replace the SR-71 Blackbird, will utilize a scramjet engine and is ...

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 ...

If you are into aviation you probably know by now something extraordinary is brewing over in the U.S. I'm talking about the plans to eventually produce a hypersonic military aircraft that can ...