Equipped with next-generation radars, cameras, and intelligence sensors, the SR-71 Blackbird proved to be a crucial ...

it’s not the SR-71 itself that the couple is paying tribute to but Lockheed’s A-12, the special reconnaissance aircraft built for the Central Intelligence Agency by Lockheed’s Skunk Works ...

[1] It was developed as a black projectfrom the Lockheed A-12 reconnaissance aircraft in the 1960s by Lockheed and its Skunk Works division. Renowned American aerospace engineer Clarence "Kelly ...

Skunk works department of Lockheed, tasked with black projects throughout the cold war, was already working on A-12. This was a project financed by that shady CIA money and made to replace U-2 ...