Summary and Key Points You Need to Know: The fastest plane ever, the SR-71 Blackbird, could fly at Mach 3.2 and an altitude of 85,000 feet, a record still unmatched. Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works ...

Key Points – The SR-72 “Darkstar,” Lockheed Martin’s secretive successor to the SR-71 Blackbird, aims for Mach 6+ hypersonic speeds for intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance (ISR ...

Last month, we hinted that Lockheed Martin's super-secret experimental spy plane follow-up to the legendary SR-71 Blackbird, designated as the SR-72, might have made a cameo in the "Top Gun ...

So when I walked into the hangar I was stunned to see the sleekest, blackest flying machine ever, the SR-71 Blackbird. An Air Force reconnaissance aircraft, at 107 feet long it was huge, even ...

The SR-72 jet is being developed by Lockheed's Advanced Development Programs (ADP), also known as Skunk Works, just like its predecessor. The targeted speed isn't Mach 10; it's Mach 6 (4,603.6 mph ...

Most aviation aficionados are quite familiar with the SR-71 Blackbird, Lockheed’s Cold War-era spy plane that set speed and altitude records for decades streaking across the skies at 80,000 feet ...

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 .

SR-71 pilots used to say, only half-joking, that unstarts were the Blackbird’s way of punishing them for letting their attention wander to the magnificent view from 80,000 feet.

The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird flew for the first time on Dec. 22, 1964 at Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, ... (Tom Cruise) in “Top Gun: Maverick”, the sequel of the famous 1980s aviation movie.

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 ...

As of 2022, the SR-71 Blackbird holds the world record it set in 1976 as the fastest manned-airframe on the planet. The newer and fifth-generation F-35 Joint Strike Fighter and F-22 Raptor can’t ...

The SR-72 Darkstar – Lockheed Martin’s not-so-secret “Skunk Works” may actually be working on the long-rumored successor to the Mach 3+ SR-71. The aircraft would reportedly be more capable ...