Model: Lockheed SR-71 BlackbirdEngine: 2x Frank TurbineThrust: 32KgTank: 10 Liter CeroseneWingspan: 2.40mLength: 4.10mTake-off weight: 36KgScale: 1/7.5Pilot:...

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Because it’s faster, faster than anything before or after. Faster than you could ever imagine.

Read 22 reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. SR-71 covers every aspect of the spyplane’s development, manufacture, and active service, a…

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Photograph by NASA   Since 1976, the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird has held the world record for the fastest ‘air-breathing manned aircraft’ with a recorded speed of 1,905.81 knots (2,1…

Aviation Week’s staff compiled a list of why they favor these amazing military aircraft.

Learn about the creation of the Blackbird, the world's fastest plane, by Kelly Johnson and the Skunk Works team at Lockheed Martin.

When it comes to curb appeal, few airplanes in history can match the look of the SR-71 "Blackbird." And nothing in the Air Force's inventory -- past

As a former SR-71 pilot, and a professional keynote speaker, the question I'm most often asked is "How fast would that SR-71 fly?" I can be assured of hearing that question several times at any event I attend. It's an interesting question, given the aircraft's proclivity for speed, but there really isn't one number to

I read that all SR 71 blackbirds were different, what was different with each one and is one regarded as superior to the rest? Why?

1974: On a flight to the Farnborough Air Show outside London, Maj. James Sullivan and Maj. Noel Widdifield fly the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird from New York to London in 1 hour, 54 minutes, 56.4 seconds. The 1,806-mph flight still holds the transatlantic speed record between the two cities. Developed during the middle of the cold […]

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Schematics and Drawings of the SR-71 for modeling enthusiasists

There were a lot of things we couldn’t do in an SR-71, but we were the fastest guys on the block and loved reminding our fellow aviators of this fact.