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Cold War Era / Military Aviation / SR-71 Blackbird

The only SAM that had a chance to hit the SR-71 was a Nuclear S-300 fired ahead of the Blackbird. Habu pilot explains why.

Mar 22 2026
By 
Linda Sheffield Miller
Cold War Era / Military Aviation / SR-71 Blackbird / SR-71 Top Speed

More than 5 hours above Mach 3.0: SR-71 pilot recalls 11.13 hours mission during the Yom Kippur War

Mar 8 2026
By 
Linda Sheffield Miller
Cold War Era / Military Aviation / SR-71 Blackbird

SR-71 pilot recalls a Blackbird buzzing Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp after protest women threw paint on that very same SR-71

Feb 27 2026
By 
Linda Sheffield Miller
Cold War Era / Losses and Aviation Safety / Military Aviation / SR-71 Blackbird

SR-71 flying with just one engine in full afterburner: Blackbird pilot tells the story of a unique Habu photo

Feb 22 2026
By 
Linda Sheffield Miller
Cold War Era / Military Aviation / SR-71 Blackbird / SR-71 Top Speed

SR-71 pilot recalls his Blackbird flying so fast that landed at Beale AFB almost a Day Before Taking off from Kadena AB

Feb 8 2026
By 
Linda Sheffield Miller
Cold War Era / Military Aviation / SR-71 Blackbird

When a Corsair II and a Blackbird played on the same footing: A-7E pilot recalls doing Touch and Go’s with an SR-71

Feb 1 2026
By 
Dario Leone
Cold War Era / Military Aviation / SR-71 Blackbird

Habu Pilot recalls the SR-71 mission he flew in the “denied area” where Soviets were test firing the then new SA-5 ‘Gammon’ SAM

Jan 24 2026
By 
Dario Leone
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Aviation History / Cold War Era / Military Aviation / SR-71 Blackbird

The Most Secret Program ever developed by Lockheed Skunk Works was not the SR-71 Blackbird: the D-21 Drone and project Senior Bowl

Jan 20 2026
By 
Linda Sheffield Miller
Cold War Era / Military Aviation / SR-71 Blackbird

The little Dents on the SR-71 Nose that prevented SAMs from Scoring any Hit on the Blackbird

Jan 16 2026
By 
Linda Sheffield Miller
Cold War Era / Military Aviation / SR-71 Blackbird

Blackbird RSO recalls when a KC-135Q flew unprotected into Northern Laos to save his SR-71 after it had a Double-Engine Flameout

Jan 9 2026
By 
Linda Sheffield Miller
Cold War Era / Military Aviation / SR-71 Blackbird

SR-71 RSO recalls when his Blackbird had to divert to South Korea after Photographing all of the SA-2 SAM Sites in North Korea in One Mission

Jan 1 2026
By 
Linda Sheffield Miller
Cold War Era / Losses and Aviation Safety / Military Aviation / SR-71 Blackbird

The SR-71 crew who flew at Mach 3.22 over North Vietnam providing an ECM blanket against SA-2 SAMs to protect B-52s during Operation Linebacker II

Dec 25 2025
By 
Linda Sheffield Miller
Cold War Era / Losses and Aviation Safety / Military Aviation / SR-71 Blackbird

SR-71 pilots tell why flying the Blackbird with just one engine in full afterburner was SR-71 aircrews’ most dangerous operation

Dec 20 2025
By 
Linda Sheffield Miller
Cold War Era / Military Aviation / SR-71 Blackbird

The SR-71 pilot who flew the Blackbird beyond 90,000 feet with no simulator time to prepare him

Dec 13 2025
By 
Linda Sheffield Miller
Cold War Era / Military Aviation / SR-71 Blackbird / SR-71 Top Speed

SR-71 RSO recalls when an F-101 tried to race against his Blackbird. The Voodoo pilot gave up when he asked him how fast his F-101 could climb above 80,000 feet.

Dec 4 2025
By 
Linda Sheffield Miller
Cold War Era / Military Aviation / SR-71 Blackbird

USAF Avionics Technician explains why today the SR-71 would be easier to spot on IRST than the U-2

Nov 29 2025
By 
Linda Sheffield Miller
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