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Fifty Years Later, the SR-71 Blackbird Is Still the Fastest Plane Ever Built
to Dulles International Airport outside of Washington, D.C. in 68 minutes. While visiting “Blackbird” Park at Palmdale in 2022, this author got to speak with the surviving SR-71 pilots there ...
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What Makes The Windshield Of An SR-71 Blackbird Jet So Special?
The SR-71 Blackbird is easily one of the world's most iconic aircraft. They first took to the skies in the 1960s, and by the turn of the century, they were retired. Nowadays, you can only find SR ...
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Weekly overnight closures of southbound SR-71 to start Monday, lasting through end of March
a similar closure impacted parts of the 71 and 91 Freeways for similar work, and again in December. The closures will turn through at least March 28. Periodically, east and westbound lanes of SR ...
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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 ...