Once Lockheed finally beat Convair and secured the A-12 contract, the real nightmare began. The winning design combined ...

The path to the Blackbird was anything but inevitable. After the hydrogen fueled Suntan project collapsed, Lockheed pushed ...

What You Need to Know: The SR-71C “Hybrid Trainer,” nicknamed “The Bas****,” was a unique Blackbird variant created by merging parts of two different SR-71 aircraft. -Built using the front section of ...

The SR-71 was derived from the A-12 Oxcart, a black project also built by Lockheed’s famed “Skunk Works” division for the CIA.

The black magic inside the SR-71.

At this point in the Blackbird program, all the specialized tooling that Lockheed Martin had invented to work with these ...

If you've ever looked at your wrist and wished that you had a Cold War momento on it that costs as much as a hypercar, Urwerk has your back with its EMC SR-71 watch that includes material from an ...

The venerable Cold War SR-71 Blackbird may be looking nervously at its laurels after Hermeus's latest Quarterhorse Mk 2.1 ...

The fascinating story of the spy plane SR-71 Blackbird--the fastest manned aircraft in the history of aviation. The SR-71 Blackbird, the famed "spy" jet, was deliberately designed to be the world's ...

A Mach 3 interceptor once fired a missile from 75,000 feet and hit a target near the ground, a Cold War feat that still ...