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SR-71 Blackbird 61-7972 at the Smithsonian's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center.

How SR-71 Blackbird 61-7972 flew from Los Angeles to Washington in 1 hour, 4 minutes and 20 seconds

Sixty-four minutes and twenty seconds is the time the Smithsonian credits to Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird

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The SR-71 Blackbird: The Spy Plane Fired On Thousands of Times—and Never Shot Down in Combat

The Lockheed SR-71A “Blackbird” sits in a rare category of combat-support aviation: an unarmed aircraft

F-104 Starfighter

Why West Germany’s F-104 Starfighter earned the name ‘Widowmaker’

West Germany’s experience with the F-104 Starfighter is one of those Cold War stories where

8 overlooked Cold War jets that set speed and altitude records

In the Cold War, speed and altitude weren’t vanity metrics. They shaped intercept timelines, survivability,