SR-71 pilot Brian Shul chats with New Atlas's Loz Blain at the Reno Air Race, 2016. ... Self portrait: Brian Shul in his space suit, visor down as he flies the SR-71 Blackbird.

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 ...

SR-71 Blackbird: You Needed a Crazy ... The S1030 evolved from its remote ancestor, the original David Clark XMC-2-DC suit first produced in 1956, via the Pilot’s Protective Assembly (PPA) ...

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 ...

Major Brian Shul was an incredible survivor and a top gun pilot – but also a gifted photographer and storyteller, whose stories about the extraordinary SR-71 Blackbird will live forever.

Much of the time, being in the SR-71 at 80,000 feet felt like “going up to cruise altitude on the end of a telephone pole,” he said. A dozen of the 32 SR-71s crashed, but none of them in combat.

What You Need to Know: The SR-71 Blackbird, known for being the fastest crewed jet in history, evaded over 4,000 missiles during its service. However, in training exercises, it faced simulated ...

Fourteen former SR-71 crew members gathered for a reunion Saturday at the Museum of Aviation in Warner Robins, Georgia. Thom Patterson/CNN But they also came to send a message about the future.

Lockheed SR-71 test pilot Bill Weaver. (Image credit: United States Air Force) Other Early Losses During the 1960s. Aircraft number 64-17950 was lost on Jan. 10, 1967 at Edwards Air Force Base ...