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

Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works has been publicly discussing the SR-72 “Son of Blackbird” — a hypersonic reconnaissance and ...

Summary and Key Points: The SR-71 “I” was a proposed interceptor variant of the famed SR-71 Blackbird, designed to counter Soviet air defenses during the Cold War. -Lockheed Martin conceptualized this ...

The fallout of shuttering Skunk Works' unique factory.

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 ...

How fast? Test pilot Jim Eastham managed to push one to Mach 3.56, or just under 2,400 mph, for approximately 15 seconds whilst in a dive, as noted by retired U.S. Air Force Master Sergeant Jim ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Based on Lockheed’s quarterly filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, that places the total Lockheed losses associated with this single shadow program up to some $335 million since ...