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 ...

Where is the hypersonic “Son of Blackbird”, where is he supposed to be by now? The SR-72 occupies a strange niche in contemporary aerospace: it is a commonly talked-about, commonly-drawn object, as ...