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 ...

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, ...

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.

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

The SR-71, the most advanced member of the Blackbird family that included the A-12 and YF-12, was designed by a team of Lockheed personnel led by Clarence “Kelly” Johnson, then vice president ...

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 ...

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’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, ...

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.

I can tell you about the SR-71 Blackbird’s titanium frame, its Pratt&Whitney J58-P4 engines, or its genesis. But that’s not important. What really matters is the thrill of flying it in an ...