These jaw dropping images show how engineers in 1960s California discreetly developed the SR-71 Blackbird for the US Air Force – a plane which up till today still holds the record for being the fastest ever aircraft to fly. The aircraft had been built by American...
The American XB-70 Valkyrie was a one-of-a-kind aircraft when North American Aviation first displayed it. On the other side of the world, the other superpower was building its own supersonic strategic bomber. This Soviet aircraft – the Sukhoi T-4 – is the...
We have seen many military aircraft (and a few civilians) capable of flying at supersonic speed. Few have flown faster than Mach 2 and even fewer have gone past the three-times-the-speed-of-sound level. But the aircraft that you will be reading about in this article...
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