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 ...

The aircraft made its last flight on Apr. 11, 1976 and was removed from flying status on Jun. 24, 1976 with only 556.4 flight hours, not including the 180.9 hours accumulated on the aircraft as YF-12A ...

The SR-71 Blackbird is one of the most famous planes ever flown by the U.S. military. Known as the fastest plane ever, she had a run of nearly 30 years, in which case it was never once shot down. The ...

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.