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 ...

The trainer model was taken apart too, which meant that it would not be possible for new pilots and crews to be schooled in the intricacies of flying and maintaining the SR-71. Final retirement ...

Ms. Miller quotes a passage from Buddy Brown's book, titled Beyond Mach 3: A Pilot’s Journey Through The U-2 and SR-71 (1950 to 1970) A Memoir, “The first leg of the first flight of the SR-71 ...

A pilot and a recon officer would take detailed photos of hundreds of thousands of miles of terrain as stealthily as they could. The incredible speed of the SR-71, as much as 2,200 mph ...