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YF-12: The SR-71 Look Alike That Could Have Changed Aviation History
The SR-71 Blackbird reconnaissance plane remains ... After the Second World War, the U.S. Air Force wanted a replacement for ...
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The SR-71 Blackbird Was Built to Outrun Soviet Air Defenses
The SR-71 Blackbirds were used in intelligence-gathering operations over the Soviet Union and Vietnam. As Washington and Beijing race to produce the world’s first-ever sixth-generation aircraft ...
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What It Took To Build The SR-71 Blackbird
The legendary SR-71 Blackbird retains the record for America’s fastest manned aircraft—ever. While almost everyone has heard of the American-made F-22 Raptor and F-35 Lightning II platforms ...
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Here's what we know about Lockheed Martin's mysterious SR-72
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 ...
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Weekly overnight closures of southbound SR-71 to start Monday, lasting through end of March
a similar closure impacted parts of the 71 and 91 Freeways for similar work, and again in December. The closures will turn through at least March 28. Periodically, east and westbound lanes of SR ...
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Watch footage of the SR-71 Blackbird
NASA released video footage of the SR-71 Blackbird, the high-altitude recon aircraft capable of reaching speeds over Mach 3. More from Military & Defense NASA released video footage of the SR-71 ...