SR-71 Blackbird sets speed record, September 1, 1974Jessica MacNeil
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Speed Equals Stealth... Colonel Joseph Rogers, in a pressure suit and in front of an SR-71 "Blackbird" The SR-71 "Blackbird" was designed & developed in secrecy by the Lockheed "Skunk Works" by a team headed by Clarence L. "Kelly" Johnson. First built as a Mach 3 interceptor for d...
So how do you follow an act like the SR-71? Perhaps unsurprisingly, with the SR-72. Unlike the original Blackbird, this craft will be unmanned, but should be twice as fast, with a cruising speed around Mach 6. Which is 4500mph. ...
Lockheed’s SR-71 Blackbird first flew in 1964 and was decommissioned in 1999. Not known until the mid nineties is that the SR-71 was developed from the top secret Lockheed A-12. The A-12, project Oxcart, was build for the CIA as high speed and high alti
Lockheed’s impressive jet has a resume any other aircraft of its kind blushes at. With a clocked speed of some 100 miles per hour faster than its closest competition, along with a personal account of the jet traveling upwards of Mach 3.5, the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird is the fastest jet...
SH: This is kind of a theme with the Blackbird, right? That the physics you're normally working with are all totally different because of the speed? RM: Right. Everything is different. In that first six months of training, they had to break all your habits you had from your first ten...
In 1990, a Blackbird flew from West Coast of the United States to the East Coast in a little shy of one hour and eight minutes, hitting an average speed to 2,124.51 mph. Likewise, the aircraft had an impressive military record. The Blackbird penetrated Soviet and Chinese airspace, as we...
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