A large, matte-black, arrowhead-shaped airplane, the SR-71 looked like it was moving even when standing perfectly still. U.S. Air Force pilot BC Thomas was lucky enough to fly the “Blackbird ...

Lockheed Martin's awesome SR-71 Blackbird, the fastest, highest and most extreme aircraft ever flown by man. Pictured here at the National Air and Space Museum, Washington, DC. R'lyeh Imaging / CC ...

The pressure suits were needed to pilot the SR-71, which flew to altitudes of 80,000-plus feet — about 16 miles high. He'll also speak about the storied aircraft at Cosmosphere.

The incredible story of a lucky SR-71 pilot who survived to a Blackbird disintegration at Mach 3+ Built as a strategic reconnaissance aircraft able to fly at 88,000 feet and Mach 3, the iconic ...

A retired Air Force pilot who flew the SR-71 Blackbird recently told the Pensacola News Journal what it was like to fly the legendary aircraft that can cruise at three times the speed of sound ...

A veteran U.S. Air Force pilot and volunteer at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., has given us a small glimpse of what it was like to fly the SR-71 Blackbird. Adelbert “Buz ...

One SR-71 pilot noted that the ANS was accurate enough to limit drift to just 1,000 feet off the direction of travel, even while traveling at Mach 3 speeds. About the Author: Harrison Kass ...

Not only did SAMs fail to catch the Blackbird, even the the fastest Soviet fighter jets lacked the necessary speed to reach the SR-71. Soviet pilot Viktor Belenko, who defected to Japan in a MiG ...

Thus, each SR-71 pilot had his own individual 'high' speed that he saw at some point on some mission. I saw mine over Libya when Khadafy fired two missiles my way, and max power was in order.

Nevertheless, the Blackbird wasn’t an easy plane to fly as SR-71 pilot Brian Shul recalls in his book Sled Driver.. “There were a lot of things we couldn’t do in an SR-71, but we were the ...

It’s hard to think of an aircraft more iconic than the SR-71 Blackbird. Its design has captured imaginations and lingered in the mind well after it was retired. Well, meet the SR-72, the next ...