Total production reached 64 aircraft, including five YF-117 pre-production aircraft and 59 operational F-117A aircraft.

In the aftermath of Operation El Dorado Canyon, the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird was sent across Qaddafi’s 'Line of Death' for a ...

DALLAS — Flight cancellations, power outages and states of emergency across large parts of the U.S. marked the beginning of a huge, dayslong winter storm threatening to bring snow, sleet, ice, ...

Back in the 1960s, the Air Force ordered a small batch of special Model 41 pistols for SR-71 Blackbird aircrew survival kits.

David Hall, who served in the Navy during the Vietnam War from 1968-72, salutes active duty service members as he is welcomed ...

NASA used the SR-71 Blackbird in the 1990s to study high-speed flight, propulsion, sonic booms and hypersonic technologies at ...

The Fairchild 71 airplane is credited with opening up the remote areas in Alaska and Canada. Now, a rare Fairchild 71 is ...

The SR-71 Blackbird looked almost absurd even by Cold War standards. It leaked fuel on the ground, needed repeated aerial refueling, used a special JP-7 fuel that was remarkably hard to ignite, and ...

The phenomenon of an aeroplane that flies ‘before it takes off’ is not an error in the continuum of space-time; it regularly happens as a result of th.

Back in 1976, Major General Eldon Wayne Joersz and Lieutenant Colonel George T. Morgan Jr. climbed on board a Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird and set the absolute world speed record for a manned, ...

The SR-71 Blackbird proved that speed itself could be the ultimate form of stealth. Few aircraft in history have had as much impact on intelligence gathering as the SR-71 Blackbird. Built at the ...