Rumors and speculation of clandestine military projects have been around for decades, and the Aurora spy plane is among one ...

What You Need to Know: The SR-71 Blackbird, one of the fastest aircraft ever built, was powered by revolutionary Pratt & ...

It's a bird! It's a plane! You could argue it's both. The SR-71 is an American supersonic Cold-War-era jet that was also called the Blackbird. It earned this name from its special matte-black ...

The legacy of the US military developing some of the world's most iconic and successful surveillance aircraft looks set to ...

In 2013, Lockheed Martin announced development of the successor to the SR-71 Blackbird spy plane. The SR-71 was capable of reaching speeds over three times the speed of sound, and the SR-72 is ...

A supersonic surveillance bird that looked more like the jet from X-Men than a military plane, the SR-71 broke just about every aviation record known to man. It was used on countless dangerous ...