In the early 1980s, Lockheed’s Skunk Works proposed converting the SR-71 Blackbird — the Mach 3+ reconnaissance aircraft that ...

The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird was the United States’ most advanced Cold War spy plane. It was designed to fly over Soviet airspace at Mach 3+ above 80,000 feet. At those speeds, skin temperatures could ...

The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird is a visitor favorite at the National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center. Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum Lieutenant Colonel Ed Yeilding shot ...

The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird is unlike virtually any plane that came before it, and virtually no planes like it have been made since. Even though the remarkable machine's development began in the ...

The fallout of shuttering Skunk Works' unique factory.

-Officially retired due to high costs and improving satellite tech, a former SR-71 RSO, Richard “Butch” Sheffield, reveals in his unpublished book that the decision was politically driven. -The Air ...

The SR-71 Blackbird's titanium skin was a masterpiece of thermal engineering, designed to survive conditions that would melt ...

Museum Docent Scott Willey describes the final record-setting flight of the National Air and Space Museum's SR-71. Learn more about the Lockheed SR-71A Blackbird on display at the National Air and ...

On the cover of Aviation Week’s Jan. 20, 1990, issue, a U.S. Air Force/Lockheed SR-71 flies over Lake Almanor in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. The Air Force had announced the phasing out of the program ...

Meet the SR-71: It is hard not to be impressed when seeing the Lockheed SR-71 up close, even if it is difficult for many to fully appreciate the significance of... The SR-71 was once nearly taken out: ...