What It Took To Fly The SR-71 Blackbird, And All The Ways It Could Kill You: Only 93 Air Force pilots ever flew the SR-71 ...

Summary and Key Points: Years before the famous SR-71 Blackbird, the CIA built the A-12 Oxcart — a top-secret Mach 3 spy ...

A Boeing F-15 is still quite fast, but not nearly Mach 3, the company’s program manager said on Feb. 23, correcting a previous statement. “Mach 2.497 is what we can get out of the Eagle jet and that’s ...

A Cold War interceptor once did something that still sounds like a future weapons test. A Lockheed YF-12A flying at Mach 3.2 and 75,000 feet fired an AIM-47 missile at a QB-47 target aircraft skimming ...