SR-71 BLACKBIRD the Incredible Lockheed Blackbirds

A look inside Lockheed’s SR-71 high altitude reconnaissance aircraft and the 32 incredible Blackbirds. No aviator or anyone on the Blackbird team was every killed while the Blackbirds were in service. An amazing aviation record that few aircraft, if any, can challenge. The SR-71 was developed as a black project, reconnaissance aircraft, in the 1960s by Lockheed and its Skunk Works division. Renowned American aerospace engineer Clarence “Kelly“ Johnson was responsible for many of the design’s innovative conc