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SR-71 RSO recalls suggesting NY ANG switch from C-5s to Blackbirds to save the program
The Blackbird
The SR-71, often called the “Blackbird,” is a long-range, high-performance strategic reconnaissance plane derived from the Lockheed A-12 and YF-12A. It first flew...
SR-71 spy planes could exceed Mach 3.4 during bomb damage assessment flights over Libya in Operation El Dorado Canyon
The Blackbird
No reconnaissance plane has ever flown through more dangerous skies—or with greater freedom from interference—than the SR-71 Blackbird. It holds the record as...
The U-2 that crashed in Bolivia after its pilot died of hypoxia over Cuba, after US F-4s failed to shoot it down
The U-2 and the Cuban Missile Crisis
Developed in total secrecy by Kelly Johnson and Lockheed’s Skunk Works, the first U-2A made its maiden flight...
In the early 1960s, the Soviet Union sold titanium to the U.S., thinking it was for pizza ovens, but it was actually used to...
After all, they fraudulently possibly told their comrades that the United States was a lazy country that probably couldn’t even cook for itself
The SR-71,...
Why SR-71A #61-7959 was the only Blackbird to feature a special “Big Tail”
The new ‘Big Tail’ assembly would be 13 feet 9 inches long and weigh 1,273 lbs. with 49 cubic feet of space to carry...