A Blackbird takes off from Beale AFB ... The idea of flying the SR-71 is you take off—or come off a tanker—and as best you can, get to 3.2 Mach number. With the SR-71 we’d fly out of ...

The SR-72 “Son of Blackbird,” successor to the iconic SR-71, reportedly achieves astonishing speeds up to Mach 6 using ...

“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 ... flight didn’t take place until 1968 ...

In 2013, Lockheed Martin announced development of the successor to the SR-71 Blackbird spy plane. The SR-71 was capable of reaching speeds over three times the speed of sound, and the SR-72 is ...

NASA released video footage of the SR-71 Blackbird, the high-altitude recon aircraft capable of reaching speeds over Mach 3. More from Military & Defense NASA released video footage of the SR-71 ...