The SR-71 Blackbird may be among the most iconic airframes of the Cold War, but this incredibly fast design wasn’t always intended to serve only as a high-flying set of eyes. In fact, a variant of the ...

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 ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The last remaining YF-12 saw continued use, however, in joint supersonic cruise testing between NASA and the U.S. Air Force, until it was ultimately retired to the ...