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Fifty Years Later, the SR-71 Blackbird Is Still the Fastest Plane Ever Built
this author got to speak with the surviving SR-71 pilots there, and they told of reaching their gloved hands up when they were flying and seeing the fireball surrounding their planes, feeling the ...
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Here's what we know about Lockheed Martin's mysterious SR-72
In 2013, Lockheed Martin announced development of the successor to the SR-71 Blackbird spy plane. The SR-71 was capable of reaching speeds over three times the speed of sound, and the SR-72 is ...
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What It Took To Build The SR-71 Blackbird
The legendary SR-71 Blackbird retains the record for America’s fastest manned aircraft—ever. While almost everyone has heard of the American-made F-22 Raptor and F-35 Lightning II platforms, many are ...