The SR-71 Blackbird is arguably one of Lockheed Martin's most important supersonic jets, and it set a number of records in its time. Even today, it remains the fastest jet ever recorded.

Kevin and Lukas Czinger credit the air-dominating SR-71 Blackbird stealth aircraft as the inspiration behind their perhaps ...

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When it comes to blistering aerial speeds, fighter jets manufactured by American military contractors like Boeing and Lockheed dominate the skies. While Bell's X-1 "Glamorous Glennis" was the ...

When the SR-71 was decommissioned, the fuel tanks at Beale Air Force Base that held its JP-7 jet fuel were unusable for any other purpose and were demolished. The Blackbird was America’s first ...

In contrast, the Blackbird could cruise comfortably at Mach ... the SR-71 still holds the crown as the fastest and most awe-inspiring jet ever built. Days after Operation Sindoor, PM Modi visits ...

One is a Lockheed Martin SR-71 "Blackbird" jet with a streamlined shape and proportionally large engines. The other is a NASA Space Shuttle Orbiter, which is much more bulbous and has ...

The crippled Blackbird continued to lose both speed and altitude, to the point where the Swedish pilots worried that the crew might have to eject – but they stuck by the American jet’s side ...

It is the only known fighter jet to have locked in on an SR-71 Blackbird spy plane. That was no easy feat. Designed for long-range secret flights over the Soviet Union, the SR-71 Blackbird could ...

That 2014 set came with four minifigures—Wolverine, Storm, Cyclops, and Magneto—as well as buildable versions of a Sentinel and, of course, the X-Men’s blackbird jet. The 2024 set meanwhile ...

The Blackbird was so fast it could evade anti-air missiles by simply throttling up, outrunning a total of 4,000 missiles during its tenure. If a surface-to-air missile had a chance to lock onto a ...

Like the track-oriented base Czinger 21C and the aero-slick Vmax version, the Blackbird shares the fighter jet's frontal-area-minimizing two-person inline seating and adds high-downforce ...