There was a longer than normal pause.... "Aspen, I show 1,742 knots" "No further inquiries were heard on that frequency" In another famous SR-71 story, Los Angeles Center ... "How do you plan to get ...

For I am at 80,000 Feet and Climbing! (Sign over the entrance to the old SR-71 operating base Kadena, Japan). You've never been lost until you've been lost at Mach 3. (Paul F. Crickmore -test pilot) ...

There was a time when the Americans ruled the skies with almost science fiction-looking planes, such as the SR-71 Blackbird.

The SR-71 Blackbird dominated the sky for decades as one of the fastest, highest flying spy planes in the world. Here is the ...