With their powerful engines and aerodynamic frames, the following aircraft represent the pinnacle of fighter jet technology ...

The SR-71 Blackbird, the world’s fastest air-breathing manned aircraft, held its speed record not because of its airframe’s ...

The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird is widely known as the fastest plane to ever take to the sky. It set a ground speed record of 2,193.2 mph all the way back in July of 1976. That may not even be its true ...

A scramjet generates thrust by sucking in air while traveling at supersonic speeds—meaning that a separate engine has to push the airplane to those speeds before the scramjet can engage. The Combined ...

Key point: Washington wants hypersonic fighters, spy planes, and bombers. So why not build upon the already-tested SR-71 and make an SR-72? Like a bolt out of the blue, Lockheed Martin’s renown Skunk ...

There are many high-speed air vehicles in the world today, with some of them, namely rockets and missiles, being capable of reaching many times the speed of sound. But only one, the legendary Lockheed ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Before the era of military drones and satellites, there was the SR-71 Blackbird — an engineering marvel. It operated in the upper reaches of ...