Helicopters don't all use the same fuel, nor do airplanes. Some types are rather standard, though, such as Aviation Gasoline for older propeller aircraft and models with piston engines. In addition, ...

For the first time in 40 years, the fastest jet flight crew in the world reunited with the once super-secret spy plane that put them in the history books. At the Museum of Aviation in Warner Robins, ...

The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird is the fastest air-breathing manned aircraft in the world. It is also one of the most fearsome reconnaissance aircraft, able to outrun threats from the Soviet Union at ...

As capable as the SR-71 was, no aircraft is invincible. Over time, a specially trained Swedish JA-37 Viggen unit developed a successful process for intercepting SR-71s as they flew along the same ...

HUTCHINSON, Kan. (KSNW) — It is one of the most iconic aircraft to ever take to the sky and the fastest. The Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center in Hutchinson will be celebrating the legacy of the ...

No SR-71 Blackbirds Were Ever Shot Down – And Other Amazing Facts You Didn’t Know: Of the thirty-two Lockheed SR-71 “Blackbirds” that were built during the Cold War, tragically, a dozen were lost in ...

The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird is widely known as the fastest plane to ever take to the sky. It set a ground speed record of 2,193.2 mph all the way back in July of 1976. That may not even be its true ...

In the perennial game of aeronautical anatomy-waving contests, the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird wins every time. All the world's achievements in aviation in the last 120 years don't hit home in most ...

The SR-72 Darkstar has fueled speculation for nearly two decades. First rumored in 2007, the jet is believed to be Lockheed Martin's hypersonic successor to the legendary SR-71 Blackbird. Official ...