The last word in reconnaissance airplanes, the SR-71 was capable of flying faster than Mach 3 and ... Some of them told me that it wasn’t until the P-38G model was produced that the Lightning ...

The SR-71 Blackbird, the fastest plane ever built, faced numerous hidden challenges during its career. Engineers discovered that summer-welded titanium parts were corroded due to chlorine in the water ...

Developed during the Cold War to spy on the Soviet Union, the SR-71 Blackbird was nothing short of a revolutionary, ...

The Oregon facility is the home of the Hughes Flying Boat, as well as an SR-71 Blackbird, an F-117 and a Titan II Space Launch Vehicle.

The SR-71 Blackbirds were used in intelligence-gathering ... In order for the aircraft to be able to withstand the friction produced by flying so fast, titanium was used along the Blackbird ...

“Faster than a speeding bullet” may bring to mind a certain superhero from the planet Krypton, but it was literally true of the SR-71 Blackbird ... hands full just flying the airplane.