Developed during the Cold War to spy on the Soviet Union, the SR-71 Blackbird was nothing short of a revolutionary, ...

The SR-72 “Son of Blackbird,” successor to the iconic SR-71, reportedly achieves astonishing speeds up to Mach 6 using ...

Son of Blackbird could be revolutionary in the way ... No concrete details have ever been disclosed about the futuristic jet, but concept art and other compelling details are said to have been ...

When the SR-71 was decommissioned, the fuel tanks at Beale Air Force Base that held its JP-7 jet fuel were unusable for any other purpose and were demolished. The Blackbird was America’s first ...

The jet will be an unmanned hypersonic aircraft ... Lockheed Martin announced development of the successor to the SR-71 Blackbird spy plane. The SR-71 was capable of reaching speeds over three ...

(Another Blackbird, 61-7958, set the record for average jet speed: 2,193.167 mph.) On March 6, 1990, as it made its final flight, the Smithsonian plane set another record—Los Angeles to Dulles ...

Boeing unveiled a conceptual model for a hypersonic jet that would replace the SR-71 Blackbird. The jet would hit speeds of more than Mach 5 No one has committed to building it yet. Boeing ...