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 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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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.

Rather Lockheed test pilot Bill Weaver became the man who quite literally fell to earth from an altitude of 78,800 feet. It occurred when he was torn from the seat of an SR-71 “Blackbird ...

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.

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.

Jun 11, 2022 18:00:00 Experience of SR-71 'Blackbird' pilot disassembled in the air at Mach 3.2. by . Harley Flowers During the US-Soviet Cold War, Lockheed Martin created the SR-71 (Blackbird), a ...