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  • 1. The SR-71 Blackbird aircraft was built by Lockheed Martin and took its first flight

    in 1964. It was retired by NASA in 1999. The SR-71 has been given several

    nicknames, including Blackbird and Habu.The SR-71 served with the U.S. Air

    Force from 1964 to 1998.

  • 2. It is the fastest planes that ever took flight. The official fastest record it holds is

    2,193.13 mph on July 1976.

    SR-71s first arrived at the 9th SRWs Operating Location (OL-8) at Kadena Air Base,

    Okinawa on 8 March 1968.These deployments were code named Glowing Heat,

    while the program as a whole was code named Senior Crown. Reconnaissance

    missions over North Vietnam were code named Giant Scale

  • 3.Over 4,000 missiles were fired at the Blackbird in the 25 years it was flown, but

    none ever hit it. The Blackbird was just too fast and its evasive tactic was just to

  • speed up until the missile couldnt keep up with it.

    A total of 32 aircraft were built; 12 were lost in accidents and none lost to enemy

    action.Considering all accident , Only one crew member, Jim Zwayer, a Lockheed

    flight-test reconnaissance and navigation systems specialist, was killed in a flight

    accident.The rest of the crew members ejected safely or evacuated their aircraft on

    the ground.

  • 4. The plane was covered in over 60 pounds of black paint because the black

    helped cool down the plane by up to 86 degrees. Traveling at over Mach 3, the

    plane could hit as high as 1,000 degrees without the black paint dissipating the

    heat.

    Finished aircraft were painted a dark blue, almost black, to increase the emission of

    internal heat and to act as camouflage against the night sky. The dark color led to

    the aircrafts nickname Blackbird.The outer windscreen of the cockpit was made

    of quartz and was fused ultrasonically to the titanium frame. The temperature of

    the exterior of the windscreen reached 600F (316C) during a mission.

  • 5. It was built to fly up to Mach 3.4 speeds (approx. 2,500 mph on land).

    It has held the world record for the fastest air-breathing manned aircraft since

    1976; this record was previously held by the related Lockheed YF-12.During aerial

    reconnaissance missions, the SR-71 operated at high speeds and altitudes to allow

    it to outrace threats. If a surface-to-air missile launch was detected, the standard

    evasive action was simply to accelerate and outfly the missile.

  • View from the cockpit at 73,000 feet (22,000 m) over the Atlantic Ocean

    6. The plane required a large amount of titanium to be built so the CIA created fake

    companies around the world to buy metal from the USSR, which was the biggest

  • supplier, as well as the United States enemy at that time.

    The red stripes on some SR-71s were to prevent maintenance workers from

    damaging the skin. Near the center of the fuselage, the curved skin was thin and

    delicate, with no support from the structural ribs, which were spaced several feet

    apart.