The SR-71 Blackbird is usually remembered for its titanium skin, Mach 3 speed, and cloak of secrecy, not for the rumble of ...

As the nations of Earth beaver away at their respective sixth-generation fighter planes, with all the slippery, stealthy, ...

When the SR-71 Blackbird conducted its first flights in the mid-1960s, it was nothing short of amazing. It has remained so since. Over the course of its operation, the plane set dozens of speed ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Any plane is only as fast as whatever drives it, and the SR-71 was powered by a pair of Pratt and Whitney J58 turbojet engines. The engines in question, which were ...

In the 21st century, the LS/LT V8 is the king of General Motors performance cars. Apart from a couple of bespoke Cadillac V8s here and there, the LS pulled the load for all of GMs V8 performance ...

There are many high-speed air vehicles in the world today, with some of them, namely rockets and missiles, being capable of reaching many times the speed of sound. But only one, the legendary Lockheed ...

The SR-71 Blackbird, the most impressive plane ever created at the time, remained a mystery even 20 years after its first flight. But in the July 1982 issue, Popular Mechanics published a tell-all ...

Sleek, black and evil in appearance, the SR-71 Blackbird was THE masterpiece of Cold War engineering. Flying faster and higher than any fighter, this stealthy reconnaissance aircraft could snoop where ...

For the first time in 40 years, the fastest jet flight crew in the world reunited with the once super-secret spy plane that put them in the history books. At the Museum of Aviation in Warner Robins, ...