“To experience a J58 in full burner close up and personal is hard ... about the Pratt & Whitney J-58 engines that powered the SR-71 Blackbird, that was published years ago on the P&W website ...

The SR-71 Blackbird spy plane is the fastest and highest-flying production aircraft to ever hit the skies. Despite the US Air Force officially retiring the Blackbird in 1990 (although NASA would ...

It is widely known that the SR-71 Blackbird is the fastest air-breathing ... The engine had two key afterburner modes, which allowed it to easily accelerate from being stationary on the ground ...

One of the most legendary stories related to the SR-71 Blackbird has nothing to ... off and the sight of the plan form of the plane in full afterburner dropping right in front of them was ...

Taken at Beale Air Force Base (AFB) in 1986, the impressive video in this post features the test of SR-71 J58 engine at max afterburner power. This engine run was performed by MSgt John Wiltison.

These afterburners were already common on military jets when the SR-71 was designed, but on early fighter jets, supersonic speeds were only attained in short bursts because the afterburner wolfs ...

The Lockheed SR-71 "Blackbird" is the fastest ... or five minute limit on full power, but you'd be going at full afterburner for an hour, hour and a half. SH: Going back to another detail: was ...

Unusual shot of SR-71 Blackbird (Air Force serial number 61-7974) with one engine in afterburner and the other ... At the top, one of the five full-scale development F-117 Nighthawks (Air Force ...

With a sleek needle nose and a swept double-delta wing with two prominent nacelles, the supersonic SR-71 Blackbird spy plane ... combined to the exhaust at the afterburner stage.

The SR-71, an aircraft that first flew some 50 years ... and what a spectacle it was. With its bus sized afterburner plumes and high angle of attack slow maneuvering, the Blackbird looked like ...

Faster than a speeding bullet, the retired SR ... in afterburner mode boosted the aircraft to its supersonic speeds. The aircraft manufacturer, Lockheed Martin, initially wanted the SR-71 to ...