Outrunning the Sun: the SR-71 Blackbirds Time-Defying Flight from Beale AFB to Kadena AB . Thirty-five years after her official retirement from U.S. Air Force (USAF) service and twenty-five years ...

The SR-71 began to replace the CIA’s A-12s at Kadena Air Force Base on Okinawa in March 1968 and flew its first mission over North Vietnam on March 21.

Due to the black paint, the SR-71 earned the nickname Blackbird, and when the 9th SRW was sent to Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, ...

Reaching over Mach 3, the SR-71 Blackbird was a high-altitude, strategic reconnaissance aircraft. Veteran pilot “Buz” Carpenter explains the fastest jet ever.

‘When I first joined the SR-71 program there was one permanent operating location for SR-71s at Kadena AB. The unit at Kadena was known as detachment 1 (or Det 1) of the 9th SRW.

The SR-71 Blackbird spy plane could fly faster than Mach 3, more than 2,000 miles per hour. This allowed it to easily avoid ...

The SR-71 is perhaps the most iconic ... Pilot Maj. William Lawson along with RSO Maj. Gilbert Martinez hit a thunderstorm while operating SR-71A 61-7969 from Kadena Air Base, on Okinawa, during ...

Colonel Rich Graham flew the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird during the Cold War – a plane faster than any other. Here he tells BBC Future what made it so special.

The SR-71’s operational missions began in 1968, during the Vietnam War. The Museum’s Blackbird was no exception. It arrived at Japan’s Kadena Air Base in late September 1969, ...

Self portrait: Brian Shul in his space suit, visor down as he flies the SR-71 Blackbird. Brian Shul/US Air Force. ... They figured I was gonna die, so they sent me to Kadena.