“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, the sleek, stealthy Air Force spy plane taken ...

October 9 marks a quarter-century since the SR-71A Blackbird last took to the ... The Fairchild F489 camera with a wide-angle lens for terrain mapping could be optionally installed in one compartment.

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 ...