Designed in secrecy in the 1950s, the American-made SR-71 “ Blackbird ,” perhaps shockingly, even has its F-35 Lightning II ...

The SR-71 Blackbird spy plane could fly faster than Mach 3, more than 2,000 miles per hour. This allowed it to easily avoid surface-to-air missiles.

Long before the SR-71 stunned the world, the A-12 was flying secret missions at Mach 3—under CIA command. Born in Skunk Works ...

Meet SR-71 Blackbird, world’s fastest jet ever built, can fly at the height of…, its built by…, was used during… During its service, the SR-71 flew numerous high-risk missions and was ...

Aerospace startup Hermeus announced it has started testing the Pratt & Whitney F100 engine that will power the Quarterhorse Mk 3 aircraft to Mach 5 ...

It is there where Hermeus will put the engines it is working on through their paces, but also the place where the Department of Defense and other companies can do the same, in a rapid and cheap ...

The infamous stealh jet, the SR-71 Blackbird needed powerful engines to stay off the radar and outrun anything. The J58 fit the bill perfectly.

The NASA space shuttle reaches high speeds in space. The SR-71 jet moves more slowly because it must reach its top speeds in Earth's atmosphere.

The engines were as complex as the rest of the aircraft. At the time, the J58 engines were the only engines built to continuously use afterburners (which is why the SR-71 consumed so much fuel).

The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird is widely known as the fastest plane to ever take to the sky. It set a ground speed record of 2,193.2 mph all the way back in July of 1976. That may not even be its ...

Atlanta-based startup Hermeus hopes to develop a passenger airplane capable of reaching Mach 5, or 3,000 miles per hour, but is the prospect of building a hypersonic successor to Concorde merely a ...