Blackbird SR-71 did not survive through concealing but through escape. Lockheed had constructed the Skunk Works of the SR-71 in the wake of the 1960 U-2 shootdown in the belief that, once spotted, the ...

Few planes have been able to transform a calendar into a punch line, but the SR-71 could: one former pilot said that on landing in California on a Friday he was in time to make to the happy hour after ...