The highly secretive A-12 Blackbird was relocated to a remote desert base in Nevada due to the size and security requirements for the high-speed jet. The jet's revolutionary structure consisted of 85% ...

Summary and Key Points: The A-12 Oxcart, predecessor to the famed SR-71 Blackbird, was a groundbreaking reconnaissance aircraft developed by Lockheed’s Skunk Works in the late 1950s. -Designed to ...

What You Need to Know: The YF-12 was a high-speed interceptor developed from the A-12, the predecessor of the SR-71 Blackbird. Designed during the Cold War to replace the F-106 Delta Dart, it boasted ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: For years, there were rumors of an even faster spy plane, the Aurora, but its existence seems unlikely at this point. Rather, the Pentagon relies on drones and ...

Louis Wellington Schalk Jr., 76, original chief test pilot for the A-12 Blackbird spy plane built by Lockheed’s storied “Skunk Works” in 1962, died Friday in a hospice in Arlington, Va. The cause of ...

The Central Intelligence Agency is closing in on a high-value landscaping target: a 1960s spy plane called the A-12 Blackbird. The CIA plans to mount the once-secret, 102-foot-long supersonic plane on ...

"Featuring more than 100 never-before-published photos, including recently declassified images from the CIA"--Cover. SR-71 Blackbird (Jet reconnaissance plane) SR-71 Blackbird (Jet reconnaissance ...