The A-12/SR-71 required a full-pressure suit that wasn’t all that different from what an astronaut might wear. The suit was designed to provide the pilot with oxygen, pressure and temperature ...

The SR-71 is perhaps the most iconic Cold War spy aircraft, famous for many record-setting flights. Seemingly impervious to ...

As Weaver himself told to former Blackbird pilot Col. Richard H. Graham in his book, “SR-71 The Complete Illustrated ... My pressure suit’s face plate had frozen over and I was staring at ...

SR-71 pilot Brian Shul chats with New Atlas's Loz ... but now you've gotta pass an astronaut physical to get in a space suit to fly that thing." I did very well, passed the physical.

He said that he'd been out with the SR-71 program, and that they were looking for a pilot. Of course ... forget you had to basically wear a space suit. RM: It was a Gemini suit, built for sitting.

where Kinego will donate his pressure suit, flight helmet, harness and boots. The pressure suits were needed to pilot the SR-71, which flew to altitudes of 80,000-plus feet — about 16 miles high.

SR-71 Pilot explains how he Survived to his Blackbird ... Because the pressure suit was inflated, I knew that the emergency oxygen cylinder in the seat kit attached to the parachute harness ...

Major Brian Shul was an incredible survivor and a top gun pilot – but also a gifted ... Self portrait: Brian Shul in his space suit, visor down as he flies the SR-71 Blackbird I'm proud to ...

“They had permission to be above 50,000 feet for a maximum time of 90 seconds without wearing a pressure suit ... As former SR-71 pilot Dave Peters would later recall, the speed gate ...

The Lockheed SR-71, designed in secrecy in the late 1950s ... once the Soviet government released photos of the captured pilot and the plane’s surveillance equipment. The incident had immediate ...

Strapped into the pilot’s seat of the world’s fastest ... On some westward evening flights in the military’s SR-71 Blackbird spy plane, the sun would suddenly appear on the horizon, as ...