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The Blackbird Connection The SR-71 Blackbird spy plane was a high-altitude long-range reconnaissance aircraft from the late fifties and early sixties.

Key Points and Summary: There was no superior replacement for the SR-71 at its retirement, and a reconnaissance satellite ...

Kelly Johnson led the Lockheed Skunk Works crew that designed and built the SR-71 Blackbird in a windowless Burbank Airport, ...

The CIA's A-12 Oxcart looked nearly identical to the SR-71 Blackbird, but it had an advantage in the speed department over ...