The U.S. Air Force Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird Long-Range Mach 3 Military Reconnaissance Jet Aircraft – A Skunk Works Black Project – in 1966. (Getty Images/P. Wallick) There are an unending number of ...

Born from the need to replace the vulnerable U-2 spy plane, the SR-71 Blackbird was an engineering marvel of the Cold War. We ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: Despite the pain in getting the Blackbird into the air, once it was, it set world records. It remains the world’s fastest, highest-flying air-breathing aircraft. In ...

A four-part quartz glass windshield resisted both heat and distortion when the SR-71 Blackbird was flying at speeds exceeding ...

As the Air Force’s budgets declined toward the end of the Cold War, the service could no longer justify keeping the expensive SR-71 in its inventory—especially as new threats started to emerge. The ...

During the height of the Cold War, the United States built a plane so fast and so advanced that even today, decades later, no one has broken its records. This incredible aircraft was the Lockheed ...

Ever since Germany began creating the first rocket-powered aircraft in the late-1920s, mankind has developed an immense infatuation with building jets capable of hitting supersonic speeds in the blink ...

The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird is widely known as the fastest plane to ever take to the sky. It set a ground speed record of 2,193.2 mph all the way back in July of 1976. That may not even be its true ...

Speed demons: pilots of the Blackbird SR-71 looking as top secret as the plane itself. (Image courtesy of Lockheed Martin) The ups and downs of Brian Shul’s life have been both literal and extreme.

Program note: CNN’s “Declassified” reveals the story of Russia’s secret network of deep-cover spies living in the United States on Saturday July 22, at 9 p.m. ET/PT. This story was first published in ...

For people who are into horses, this kind of animal doesn't get any better than a quarter horse. That's because the name is an umbrella term for horses no matter their breed that are stocky and ...

During the height of the Cold War, the United States built a plane so fast and so advanced that even today, decades later, no one has broken its records. This incredible aircraft was the Lockheed ...