Throughout its nearly 24-year career, the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird ... but speed and altitude measurement took place on the instrumented ranges at the Air Force Flight Test Center at Edwards ...

Blackbird number 972, which set four international speed records ... feelings of Air Force test pilot Terry Pappas, who says that of all the planes he flew, the SR-71 “is at the pinnacle.

Although the initial test flight had gone well ... I get goose bumps remembering.” Because of the SR-71’s speed, normal visual references, such as highways, rivers, and metropolitan areas ...

On Mar. 6, 1990, SR-71 Blackbird S/N 61-7972 (tail number #972) made its final flight from AF Flight Test Center Plant 42 ... Joseph Vida set a speed record flying from LA to DC (2299.7 statute ...

The company, that also shared plans for the next Mk 2 aircraft powered by the Pratt & Whitney F100 engine, aims for the final Quarterhorse Mk 3 to break the SR-71 flight speed record. Hermeus ...

Back in 1976, one of America's SR-71 Blackbird spy planes shot through the sky at speeds of Mach 3.3. That's 2,193.2 mph or 3,529.6 kph, numbers that back then marked an absolute speed record for ...

Move Over SR-71 Blackbird – The Hermeus Quarterhorse is Gunning For Your Speed Record – Fanboys of ... decision to perform these ground test operations on an Air Force base, as it allowed ...

But only one, the legendary Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird spy plane, holds the speed record with humans on ... and what better way to do that than to develop test vehicles with help from the military?

In a bid to outdo the world speed record of the famous Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird spyplane ... Its objectives were to test remote control systems and taxiing ability, ground handling, radio ...

One of its top advantages over the U-2 was its incredible speed ... became the SR-71 had its maiden flight on December 22, 1964 at Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California. Test pilot Robert ...