The SR-71 Blackbird’s final flight (at Mach 3.2)
At the Edwards AFB Open House Airshow on October 9, 1999, an SR-71 Blackbird made its final flight The brief video in this post, which was recorded on Saturday, October…
At the Edwards AFB Open House Airshow on October 9, 1999, an SR-71 Blackbird made its final flight The brief video in this post, which was recorded on Saturday, October…
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The A-12 was an early attempt by Lockheed to create a spy plane that could avoid enemy detection and anti-aircraft fire. It was the first “attempt” at a stealth aircraft…
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The head of the then-Sukhoi OKB convinced the Russian Federation’s President to select his firm’s designs as the country’s principal fighter aircraft during negotiations with post-Soviet Russian President Yeltsin Having…