SR-71 Top Speed

• SR-71 Top Speed

Here’s why SR-71 Blackbird spy planes could go faster than Mach 3.4 During BDA flights of Libya in support of Operation El Dorado Canyon

SR-71 Blackbird flying faster than Mach 3.4 The SR-71, unofficially known as the "Blackbird," is… Read More

3 years ago

• SR-71 Top Speed

Blackbird pilot recalls when his SR-71 Flew so Fast that he and his RSO Landed at Beale AFB almost a Day Before They Took Off from Kadena AB

The SR-71 Blackbird The SR-71, the most advanced member of the Blackbird family that included… Read More

3 years ago

• SR-71 Top Speed

SR-71 pilot recalls when he and his RSO did a Blackbird super low pass at a speed of 152 knots

The SR-71 Blackbird The SR-71, the most advanced member of the Blackbird family that included… Read More

3 years ago

• SR-71 Top Speed

‘When the Valkyrie flies at Mach 3 it loses pieces that are bigger than the Blackbird, but the XB-70 flies less Mach 3 time than the YF-12.’ The Mach 3 rivalry between the YF-12 and XB-70.

XB-70 Valkyrie Mach 3 bomber The Mach 3 rivalry between the YF-12 and the XB-70.… Read More

3 years ago

• SR-71 Top Speed

The story of the Catholic priest who got an SR-71 VIP ride and flew at Mach 3.52 breaking the Blackbird Speed Record

The Catholic priest who got an SR-71 Blackbird ride The actual unofficial top speed of… Read More

3 years ago

• SR-71 Top Speed

Legendary “Sled Driver” Brian Shul tells the story behind his famed SR-71 Blackbird Ground Speed Check

“Sled Driver” Brian Shul As every aviation geek knows, legendary “Sled Driver” Brian Shul passed… Read More

3 years ago

• SR-71 Blackbird

SR-71 pilot recalls when he accelerated his Blackbird to Mach 3.2 and denied an F-15 pilot an “easy,” simulated kill against its Habu during a training sortie

The SR-71 Blackbird During its 24 years of service, the SR-71 Blackbird gathered intelligence in… Read More

3 years ago

• SR-71 Top Speed

Not only JP-7: the SR-71 could use JP-4 and JP-5 as emergency fuels but they both limited the Blackbird top speed to Mach 1.5

The SR-71 Blackbird was the first aircraft to use its own fuel for hydraulic fluid.… Read More

3 years ago

• Military Aviation

SR-71 Pilot explains why even though the Blackbird could attain Mach 3.5, at that speed serious damage to the aircraft might occur

‘The SR-71 could attain Mach 3.5, but the aircraft would be in an untested and… Read More

3 years ago

• SR-71 Blackbird

US Navy F-4 pilot recalls when his Phantom II radar screen went black because of the high speed of an SR-71 Blackbird he and his RIO tried to intercept while it was exiting Chinese airspace

‘I watched in amazement as the Vc circle [on the radar display] which told us… Read More

3 years ago