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The SR-71 Blackbird can't run on jet fuel. Here's what it uses instead.
Ordinary jet fuel would boil and combust inside the Blackbird’s fuel tanks—meaning the aircraft must use a special fuel blend ...
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The SR-71 Blackbird could hit Mach 3 but was almost cancelled
The legendary SR-71 Blackbird that broke every aviation record almost never got built. In the early 1960s, Secretary of ...
The SR-71 Blackbird’s earned world record for speed has never been topped by a successor. The fastest jet to ever fly the skies is surprisingly not a fifth-generation platform designed in the last ...
The final day that the legendary jet streaked through America's skies.
The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird is unlike virtually any plane that came before it, and virtually no planes like it have been made since. Even though the remarkable machine's development began in the ...
Titanium is fantastically expensive, and difficult to fabricate, relative to other materials—meaning it was only ever practical to use on the world’s fastest plane. The SR-71 Blackbird was built from ...
What was it like to fly in the SR-71 Blackbird? Hear first hand from Walter Watson, the only African American to fly in the Blackbird program. For more FREE teacher resources from the Smithsonian’s ...
The cover of Aviation Week & Space Technology’s Jan. 22, 1990, issue featured the U.S. Air Force/Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird flying over Lake Almanor in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. The Air Force was ...
Can you imagine flying in an SR-71 Blackbird? National Air and Space Museum docent and SR-71 Blackbird pilot Buz Carpenter can. In fact, he flew the SR-71 on display at our Steven F. Udvar Hazy Center ...
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