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A SR-71 Blackbird pilot survived a supersonic ejection at Mach 3.18 and 78,800 feet
On January 25, 1966, Lockheed test pilot Bill Weaver became the first man in history to survive a supersonic parachute ...
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The SR-71 Blackbird Can’t Run on Jet Fuel. Here’s What It Uses Instead.
Ordinary jet fuel would boil and combust inside the Blackbird’s fuel tanks—meaning the aircraft must use a special fuel blend ...
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The SR-71 Blackbird could hit Mach 3 but was almost cancelled
The legendary SR-71 Blackbird that broke every aviation record almost never got built. In the early 1960s, Secretary of ...
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