The SR-71 Blackbird may be among the most iconic airframes of the Cold War, but this incredibly fast design wasn’t always intended to serve only as a high-flying set of eyes. In fact, a variant of the ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The U.S. Air Force’s order for 93 F-12B interceptor fighters was originally placed on hold for three long years, due largely to the ever-climbing costs of the war in ...

An aircraft unlike any other appeared suddenly on Feb. 29, 1964. President Lyndon Johnson announced the existence of the Lockheed “A-11,” a real aircraft with a purposely fake designation. The ...

Skunk works department of Lockheed, tasked with black projects throughout the cold war, was already working on A-12. This was ...