An aircraft unlike any other appeared suddenly on Feb. 29, 1964. President Lyndon Johnson announced the existence of the Lockheed “A-11,” a real aircraft with a purposely fake designation. The ...
Taken at Hill Air Force Base (AFB) in June 2016, the interesting clip in this post shows SR-71C, “The Bastard” S/N 61-7981, that was the only C model Blackbird ever built and was the last SR-71 to be ...
Behemoth black jets flew from a secret airstrip along the Groom Dry Lake bed in the 1960s, catching commercial jetliner pilots off guard and sending out sonic booms that signaled the prowess of U.S.