Since before I can remember, The SR-71 Blackbird was easily my favorite aircraft. I was so enthralled by the speed and elegant design of the bird. That excitement never really left me, even today.

The SR-71 is an American supersonic Cold-War-era jet that was also called the Blackbird. It earned this name from its special matte-black paint job, one of the incredible technological features of ...

During the Cold War, the SR-71 Blackbird spy plane could fly higher and faster than any other – and 55 years after its first flight, it still does. CNN values your feedback 1.

Known unofficially as the “Blackbird” for its black paint job, which was specially developed to dissipate heat, the SR-71 featured sleek lines that may have seemed “futuristic” when it was ...

Bond wishes he had a bird like this.The SR-71 was a spy plane born to rule the skies and is one of the greatest feats of engineering ever to take off. The Blackbird is native to California ...

SR-71 pilots used to say, only half-joking, that unstarts were the Blackbird’s way of punishing them for letting their attention wander to the magnificent view from 80,000 feet.

Not only did SAMs fail to catch the Blackbird, even the the fastest Soviet fighter jets lacked the necessary speed to reach the SR-71. Soviet pilot Viktor Belenko, who defected to Japan in a MiG ...

Following the loss of a U-2 reconnaissance aircraft over the Soviet Union on May 1, 1960, Lockheed needed “to build the impossible—and do it fast.” Called the SR-71—SR for Strategic ...