The Lockheed Martin SR-72, often referred to as the “Son of Blackbird,” is a proposed hypersonic aircraft intended to fill a ...

Developed during the Cold War to spy on the Soviet Union, the SR-71 Blackbird was nothing short of a revolutionary, ...

INCREDIBLE plans have been revealed for a hypersonic superjet dubbed “Son of Blackbird” that could soon become the world’s fastest aircraft. Building on the legacy of the SR-71 ...

In 2013, Lockheed Martin announced development of the successor to the SR-71 Blackbird spy plane. The SR-71 was capable of reaching speeds over three times the speed of sound, and the SR-72 is ...

When the Lockheed Martin Skunk Works began marking its 70th ... with speed—and a direct predecessor of the triple-sonic A-12 Blackbird. It had been designed by Skunk Works founder Clarence ...

In 1963, the Lockheed A-12 (code-named “Archangel”) became America’s first supersonic stealth plane. Incredibly fast, much ...

Lockheed Martin’s infamous Skunk Works division is responsible for developing the legendary SR-71 platform. Spearheaded by Clarence “Kelly” Johnson, the Blackbird project was initially ...

While the name of Lockheed Martin’s experimental SR-72 is the ... which refers to it as “Son of Blackbird.” In addition to the movie creating a name, the jet design in “Maverick” is ...