Leaving the airspace above New York City at 2,455 miles per hour, SR-71 tail number 64-17972 would set a transatlantic speed record on Sept. 1, 1974.
The SR-71 Blackbird wasn’t just an aircraft - it was a weapon of information dominance. Born from the need to outwit Soviet ...
The SR-71 Blackbird wasn’t just a spy plane - it was a technological anomaly that broke every rule of aviation. Flying above ...