The Fairchild 71 was an American high-wing monoplane passenger and cargo aircraft built by Fairchild Aircraft and later built in Canada by Fairchild Aircraft Ltd. (Canada) for both military and civilian use as a rugged bush plane.

2020年5月7日 · Elon Musk and Grimes recently said their favorite plane was the SR-71 Blackbird, citing its supersonic ability and lack of weapons. The revelation came as Grimes deciphered the meaning behind the...

2012年7月20日 · Faster than a speeding bullet, the retired SR-71 Blackbird can still turn heads as a Cold War spy plane designed for flying high and fast beyond danger. The ultimate flying speed demon not only...

Learn about the creation of the Blackbird, the world's fastest plane, by Kelly Johnson and the Skunk Works team at Lockheed Martin.

2 天之前 · All of the Blackbird Locations have been sorted by state/region and can be searched by the clickable map below. Just click a red dot on the map and you will be taken to a list of Blackbirds that are in the area.

2022年10月26日 · The SR-71 Blackbird is an awesome plane. But did you know that it could have been even more awesome than it was? The Air Force was planning to make a fighter version of the plane. Aviation historian Joe Baugher notes that as the early iterations of the SR-71 were being designed, there was a need for an interceptor. The F-108 program had been ...

Historical details and photographs of America's Mach 3 supersonic spyplane aircraft, the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird.

Designed over half a century ago, the SR-71 still holds records as the fastest and highest-flying crewed aircraft. The design pioneered stealth technology. The plane is one of the most distinctive and storied chapters in aviation history. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the Cold war between the Soviet Union and the United States was heating up.

2023年5月31日 · Learning from the failures of the U-2, the SR-71 incorporated some of the earliest stealth technology. Its unique shape, with a sharp edge — or hard chine — running along the fuselage was designed to reduce its radar return.

2019年11月4日 · During the Cold War, the SR-71 Blackbird spy plane could fly higher and faster than any other – and 55 years after its first flight, it still does.