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Former SR-71 Blackbird pilot asked about the biggest myths surrounding the jet and reveals the truth behind them

The biggest myth is still quite popular today ...
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What SR-71 Blackbird pilots had to do before missions that most other pilots in history have never done

The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird was not a normal aircraft. It was the fastest air-breathing aircraft ever made and was designed to fly at such a height (over 80,000 feet or around 24,300 meters) and ...
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SR-71 Blackbird Crews Prepared For Flight Like Astronauts, Not Pilots

The SR-71 Blackbird is one of the best-known aircraft the United States has ever produced, and it has a long list of record-breaking achievements to explain why. Lockheed's Skunk Works developed the ...
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US Pilots Were Flying Over The Soviet Union – Then Hit A Free-Fall At 83,000 Feet

The SR-71 Blackbird surveillance plane broke the record for the fastest jet ever flown with a top speed of 2,193 miles per hour in 1976, a record it still holds to this day. The Blackbird wasn't a one ...
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This SR-71 Pilot Free Fell from the Edge of Space

After test pilot Bill Weaver crashed, he thought he had died. It turns out he was falling from the edge of outer space, after his SR-71 Blackbird spy plane had ...
Business Weekly

SKC Studios toasts US deal to create world's first AI Blackbird pilot

AI startup SKC Studios in Cambridgeshire has clinched a five-year deal with Air Zoo Aerospace & Science Center in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
The National Interest

Did the CIA Help Create the SR-71 Blackbird? It’s Complicated

The A-12 existed because advances in missile technology had made the U-2 Dragon Lady vulnerable. Pilot Francis Gary Powers was shot down over the Soviet Union in 1960, highlighting the platform’s ...