It is widely known that the SR-71 Blackbird is the fastest air-breathing manned aircraft to ever take to the skies, with the plane able to exceed speeds far beyond Mach 2. The aircraft, which was ...

The SR-71 may be a retired Cold War-era enterprise, but the infamous aircraft retains several world records, beating out even the more advanced fifth-generation jets in service today. Back in the ...

Around the conclusion of the Cold War, the SR-71 was falling out of favor. The shift in attitude was owed in large part to the Soviet decline, which spoiled the SR-71’s most important reconnaissance ...