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Feb. 29, 1954: President Lyndon B. Johnson publicly Reveals the YF-12A, the Blackbird Mach 3+ Interceptor

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

Feb. 29, 1964: President Lyndon B. Johnson publicly Reveals the YF-12A, the Blackbird Mach 3+ Interceptor

Linda Sheffield Miller

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Here are the materials you should use instead of titanium to build a Blackbird Mach 3 spy plane today

Cold War Era / Military Aviation / SR-71 Blackbird

Did you know SR-71 Blackbird Mach 3 spy plane’s titanium parts made in summer corroded while those made in winter didn’t? Here’s why.

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 Fastest known Speed ever Recorded by a Lockheed Blackbird

Dario Leone

Did you know the F-14 Tomcat was meant to be ‘Bombcat’ from the beginning of its development?

Aviation History / Cold War Era / F-14 Tomcat / Military Aviation

Did you know the F-14 Tomcat was meant to be ‘Bombcat’ from the beginning of its development?

The slowest speed ever recorded by a Lockheed Blackbird

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

The slowest speed ever recorded by a Lockheed Blackbird

Dario Leone

The A-12 program was so secret that CIA injected with sodium pentothal the first pilot that bailed out of an Oxcart to interrogate him after the crash

Cold War Era / Military Aviation / SR-71 Blackbird

General Curtis LeMay wanted a bomber variant of the A-12 but the SR-71 Blackbird was developed instead

Linda Sheffield Miller

Did you know that titanium used to build the iconic SR-71 Blackbird Mach 3+ spy plane came from Soviet Union?

Cold War Era / Military Aviation / SR-71 Blackbird

Did you know that titanium used to build the iconic SR-71 Blackbird Mach 3+ spy plane came from Soviet Union?

Dario Leone

Did you know that NASA YF-12C was actually an SR-71 with a bogus A-12 tail number?

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

Did you know that NASA YF-12C was actually an SR-71 with a bogus A-12 tail number?

Dario Leone

The list of the fastest and the highest known flights ever recorded by the Lockheed Blackbird family

Cold War Era / Military Aviation

The list of the fastest and the highest known flights ever recorded by the Lockheed Blackbird family

Dario Leone

Interesting Video Explains how SR-71’s J58 Turbo-Ramjet Engine Works

Cold War Era / Military Aviation / SR-71 Blackbird

Interesting Video Explains how SR-71’s J58 Turbo-Ramjet Engine Works

Dario Leone

Here’s why this JQB-47E has three YF-12 Kill Markings

Cold War Era / Military Aviation

Here’s why this JQB-47E has three YF-12 Kill Markings

Dario Leone

Half YF-12 and half SR-71: the story of "The Bastard," the only SR-71C ever built

Aviation History / Military Aviation / SR-71 Blackbird

Half YF-12 and half SR-71: the story of “The Bastard,” the only SR-71C ever built

Dario Leone

Blackbird down the street: flashback photo show how Beale AFB static SR-71 was moved to its current location

Military Aviation / SR-71 Blackbird

BLACKBIRD DOWN THE STREET: FLASHBACK PHOTO SHOWS HOW BEALE AFB STATIC SR-71 WAS MOVED TO ITS CURRENT LOCATION

Dario Leone

SR-71

Military Aviation / SR-71 Blackbird

WATCH THIS CLIP AND LEARN SOMETHING ABOUT THE SR-71 BLACKBIRD, THE WORLD’s FASTEST PLANE

Gabriele Barison

SR-71 Blackbird

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

THE STORY OF THE SR-71 BLACKBIRD THAT SET FOUR SPEED RECORDS ON ITS FINAL FLIGHT

Dario Leone

NASA YF-12s

Cold War Era / Military Aviation

A QUICK LOOK AT NASA YF-12 BLACKBIRDs AND THEIR INVOLVEMENT IN THE “COLDWALL” PROJECT

Dario Leone

That time a Wife had her Wedding Ring flown at Mach 3

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

HERE’S HOW SR-71 BLACKBIRD PILOTS WHO ESTABLISHED ABSOLUTE SPEED RECORD CELEBRATED THE 40th ANNIVERSARY OF THE HISTORIC FLIGHT

Dario Leone

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