BC encountered an engine inlet problem resulting in a series of uncontrollable “unstarts” and had to abort the mission, returning to Okinawa after just twenty minutes and still with 15,000 pounds of ...
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New York to London in a Flash: A Look at an SR-71 Record Flight
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 remains an aviation icon, decades after being retired. The aircraft was one of the most visually distinct, and technically distinct, aircraft ever built. The SR-71 looked like ...
Key Points - The official retirement of the SR-71 Blackbird in 1990 was driven more by internal US Air Force politics and budget priorities than by high operational costs or obsolescence, according to ...
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