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The Lockheed SR-71 "Blackbird" is a retired long-range, high-altitude, Mach 3+ strategic reconnaissance aircraft developed and manufactured by the American aerospace company Lockheed Corporation. [N 1] Its nicknames include "Blackbird" and "Habu". [1] The SR-71 was developed in the 1960s as a black project by Lockheed's Skunk Works division.
He was so badly burned that he was given next to no chance to live. Surviving, he returned to full flight status, flying the SR-71 Blackbird. Major Shul completed a 20-year career in the Air Force. He wrote four books on aviation and ran a photo studio in Marysville, California, until his death in Reno, Nevada. [1]
The new museum building is a $29.5 million, 300,000-square-foot (28,000 m 2) structure that features a glass atrium, two large aircraft display hangars, a traveling exhibit area, a children's interactive gallery, a 200-seat theater, a museum store, an aircraft restoration gallery, and a snack bar. The glass atrium is constructed of 525 glass ...
The Lockheed Martin SR-72, colloquially referred to as "Son of Blackbird", [1] is an American hypersonic concept intended for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) proposed privately in 2013 by Lockheed Martin as a successor to the retired Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird. In 2018, company executives said an SR-72 test vehicle could fly ...
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Stinson SR-10G Reliant, NC21135, c/n 5903, built 1937 for American Airlines - on loan from the Science Museum of Virginia. Waco EGC-8 , c/n 5062, built for by R. G. LeTourneau , 1938, one of seven total sold - now owned by David Tyndall from Mechanicsville, Virginia - undergoing restoration in the museum shop.
Lockheed SR-71 The Pratt & Whitney J58 (company designation JT11D-20 ) is an American jet engine that powered the Lockheed A-12 , and subsequently the YF-12 and the SR-71 aircraft. It was an afterburning turbojet engine with a unique compressor bleed to the afterburner that gave increased thrust at high speeds.
SR-71 "Blackbird" towed from Kelly AFB to Lackland AFB summer 1990. The SR-71A "Blackbird" was put on static display in 1990 at the Parade Ground Airpark. [11] [12] In 2010 the museum reopened with a new name—the Airman Heritage Museum. [13] The same year, Building 6351, a 1940s era barracks was moved to the museum. [14]