The J58 required the use of a special AG330 engine starter cart to spool the engines up to the proper rotational speed for starting. Taken at Beale Air Force Base (AFB) in 1986, the impressive video ...

It is widely known that the SR-71 Blackbird is the fastest air-breathing manned aircraft to ever take to the skies, with the plane able to exceed speeds far beyond Mach 2. The aircraft, which was ...

Flying faster than Mach 3 demanded an engine unlike anything before it. The J58 powered the Blackbird by blending turbojet ...

The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird is widely known as the fastest plane to ever take to the sky. It set a ground speed record of 2,193.2 mph all the way back in July of 1976. That may not even be its true ...

The SR-71 Blackbird remains an aviation icon, decades after being retired. The aircraft was one of the most visually distinct, and technically distinct, aircraft ever built. The SR-71 looked like ...

Pratt & Whitney has quietly been working on reusable engines capable of powering an aircraft at hypersonic or near-hypersonic speeds. The engine maker is reportedly going back to its work developing ...

On December 17, 1903, the Wright brothers flew the first airplane ever at 6.8 mph (10.9 km/h). Only 61 years and five days later, the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird took off. It’s still the world’s fastest ...

Pratt & Whitney is evaluating the impact of a U.S. Air Force decision to decommission a fleet of high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft, whose engines the company overhauled and repaired at its ...