The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird is a visitor favorite at the National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center. Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum ...

The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird is a visitor favorite at the National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center. Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum ...

Summary and Key Points You Need to Know: The SR-71 Blackbird, capable of cruising at speeds exceeding Mach 3.2, was the fastest air-breathing manned aircraft ever to serve operationally. -Despite ...

It now rests at the National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center at ... standing silently in a museum gallery, the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird evokes a sense of speed and high ...

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Aviation Week’s Guy Norris has an exclusive article on the successor for the Lockheed Martin SR-71 Blackbird, the legendary spy plane that may be the favorite of every airplane nerd in the world ...

Well, meet the SR-72, the next Blackbird. It’s going into space. Admittedly, we’re a long way away from seeing this in any way, shape, or form: Lockheed Martin admits the first demonstration ...

The SR-71 Blackbird, (Image credit: Lockheed Martin) This is part of a SPACE.com series of articles on the Most Amazing Flying Machines Ever, the balloons, airplanes, rockets and more that got ...

Following the loss of a U-2 reconnaissance aircraft over the Soviet Union on May 1, 1960, Lockheed needed “to build the impossible—and do it fast.” Called the SR-71—SR for Strategic ...

Lockheed SR-71 (Blackbird) Family Provenance Lockheed Aeronautical Systems Company, Gift, 1990, NASM.1990.0076 ... The SR-71 in the National Air and Space Museum's collection (s/n 61-7972) accrued ...

Now, Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works has revealed that it is building a successor to the Blackbird: the SR-72. When the last SR-71 Blackbird was grounded in 1998 it was a double blow.

From Mach 3 Speeds to Retirement: The Untold Story of the SR-71 Blackbird Capable of cruising at speeds in excess of Mach 3.2, the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird was the fastest air-breathing manned ...