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Did you know the solid quartz glass of the canopy of the SR-71 Blackbird cockpit was 1.25 inches thick and was hot to the touch from the inside?

Cold War Era / Losses and Aviation Safety / Military Aviation / SR-71 Blackbird

Did you know the solid quartz glass of the canopy of the SR-71 Blackbird cockpit was 1.25 inches thick and was hot to the touch from the inside?

Linda Sheffield Miller

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Did you know? To keep the A-12 project secret CIA stored in boxes Oxcart spy planes and moved them from Skunk Works production site to Area 51

Aviation History / Cold War Era / Military Aviation / SR-71 Blackbird

Did you know? To keep the A-12 project secret CIA stored in boxes Oxcart spy planes and moved them from Skunk Works production site to Area 51

Linda Sheffield Miller

How the Secret Development of the F-117 led to the Birth of the Misleading F-19, the Stealth Fighter that Never Was

Aviation History / Cold War Era / Military Aviation

The Stealth Fighter that Never Was: How the Secret Development of the F-117 led to the Birth of the Misleading F-19

Dario Leone

The story of Buddy Brown, the U-2 pilot that took part to O Club parties wearing fake bad teeth to joke about the ozone level effect on U-2 drivers

Aviation Humor / Cold War Era / Military Aviation

The story of the U-2 pilot that took part in O Club parties wearing fake bad teeth to joke about the ozone level effect on U-2 drivers

Linda Sheffield Miller

The urban legend of the brown bag with $30 million in cash delivered to Kelly Johnson to pay for the first six CIA U-2 spy planes

Aviation History / Cold War Era / Military Aviation

The weird story of when Kelly Johnson received a bag with $30 million in cash to pay for the first six CIA U-2 spy planes

Linda Sheffield Miller

SR-71 pilots explain why flying the Blackbird with just one engine in full afterburner was SR-71 aircrews’ most dangerous operation

Cold War Era / Losses and Aviation Safety / Military Aviation / SR-71 Blackbird

Blackbird pilots explain why flying the SR-71 with just one engine in full afterburner was Blackbird aircrews’ most dangerous operation

Linda Sheffield Miller

First man to fly the iconic SR-71 recalls when he flew the Blackbird Inverted and he turned off the Instrumentation so that Kelly Johnson wouldn’t find out

Aviation History / Cold War Era / Military Aviation / SR-71 Blackbird

First man to fly the iconic SR-71 recalls when he flew the Blackbird Inverted and he turned off the Instrumentation so that Kelly Johnson wouldn’t find out

Dario Leone

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F-117As

Aviation History / Cold War Era / Military Aviation

Did you know that with an RCS of an Eagle’s Eyeball the F-117 Nighthawk was one thousand times less visible than the D-21, the least visible shape previously produced at Lockheed’s Skunk Works?

Linda Sheffield Miller

First SR-71 RSO explains why Reconnaissance Systems Officer cockpit had to be rearranged before the Blackbird maiden flight or the USAF would not buy the SR-71

Aviation History / Cold War Era / Military Aviation / SR-71 Blackbird

First SR-71 RSO explains why Reconnaissance Systems Officer cockpit had to be rearranged before the Blackbird maiden flight or the USAF would not buy the SR-71

Linda Sheffield Miller

After an A-12 flight specks of insects hoisted from the atomic test explosions in Russia and China were found on the Oxcart windshield

Cold War Era / Military Aviation / SR-71 Blackbird

After an A-12 flight specks of insects hoisted from the atomic test explosions in Russia and China were found on the Oxcart windshield

Linda Sheffield Miller

Carmine Vito was the only U-2 pilot to fly over Moscow: five Soviet MiGs launched to intercept his flight got lost or collided

Aviation History / Cold War Era / Military Aviation

U-2 pilot describes how Carmine Vito, the only U-2 pilot to fly over Moscow, almost bit his poison cyanide pill in half while flying over Soviet Union

Linda Sheffield Miller

How the iconic U-2 got its name: Test Pilot Tony LeVier gave Kelly Johnson the finger, Johnson returned giving LeVier the finger and yelled, “U-2”.

Aviation History / Cold War Era / Military Aviation

How the iconic U-2 got its name: Test Pilot Tony LeVier gave Kelly Johnson the finger, Johnson returned giving LeVier the finger and yelled, “U-2”!

Linda Sheffield Miller

Lockheed Martin's Advanced Development Programs division was originally called "Skonk Works." Here’s why it changed the name to “Skunk Works”

Aviation History / Cold War Era / Military Aviation

Lockheed Martin’s Advanced Development Programs division was originally called “Skonk Works.” Here’s why it changed the name to “Skunk Works.”

Linda Sheffield Miller

These photos show the family resemblance between Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird and Top Gun: Maverick Darkstar

Military Aviation / SR-71 Blackbird / SR-71 Top Speed

These photos show the family resemblance between Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird and Top Gun: Maverick Darkstar

Dario Leone

SR-71 Pilot explains how he Survived to his Blackbird Disintegration at a Speed of Mach 3.2

Cold War Era / Losses and Aviation Safety / Military Aviation / SR-71 Blackbird

SR-71 Pilot explains how he Survived to his Blackbird Disintegration at a Speed of Mach 3.2

Linda Sheffield Miller

SR-71 Pilot tells the story of when his Blackbird flew So Fast that He and his RSO arrived at Beale AFB almost a Day Before They Left Kadena AB

Cold War Era / Military Aviation / SR-71 Blackbird / SR-71 Top Speed

‘The SR-71 could attain Mach 3.5 but at that speed serious damage to the aircraft might occur,’ former Blackbird Pilot says

Dario Leone

Here’s why the Lockheed A-12 Oxcart was the first stealth aircraft

Aviation History / Cold War Era / Military Aviation / SR-71 Blackbird

Here’s why the Lockheed A-12 Oxcart was the first stealth aircraft

Linda Sheffield Miller

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