Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird ...

The SR-71 could fly at Mach 3.2 (around 2,100 miles per hour)—lightyears faster than anything the Soviet Union could throw at it.

Lockheed is the company in charge of manufacturing this stealth aircraft. The SR-71 Blackbird came out a few years after the A-12 above, and was retired in 1999. It goes about the same speed ...

When an airframe is named in reference to the SR-71 Blackbird, you can expect that ... Sixty years later, the speed bar has changed, however; Lockheed is expected to craft an SR-72 capable of ...

But only one, the legendary Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird spy plane, holds the speed record with humans on board. Back in 1976 one of these planes reached a staggering speed of Mach 3 (2,193.2 mph ...

The second spot on the list goes to another remarkable machine: the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird ... a total of 32 Blackbird aircraft were built; 12 were lost in accidents, but none to enemy action.

Rachel is a dusty, hardscrabble spot, located in the Joshua tree desert just outside Area 51, that highly guarded Air Force ...

Supersonic Rebirth Since the beginning of air travel, the industry has always looked at ways to move more people quicker and/or cheaper. When supersonic flight was invented shortly after World War II, ...

The slide above looks a bit different from what Lockheed Martin normally puts in its slide displaying the financial highlights. The difference is not that the company added a picture to the slight ...

Lockheed Martin has reported 2024 net sales of $71 billion, a 5 percent increase from $67.57 billion generated in 2023, and backlogs of $176 billion compared to just $160.6 billion the year prior.