Few planes have been able to transform a calendar into a punch line, but the SR-71 could: one former pilot said that on landing in California on a Friday he was in time to make to the happy hour after ...

More than 60 years after it graced the skies for the first time, Lockheed's SR-71 Blackbird remains the fastest manned plane ever developed. With the ability to hit a maximum speed of 2,193 miles per ...