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3 days ago · Unofficially nicknamed the "Blackbird," the SR-71 was developed as a long-range strategic reconnaissance aircraft capable of flying at speeds over Mach 3.2 and at 85,000 feet. The first SR-71 to enter service was delivered in 1966 and due to politics, it was retired in 1990.
8 hours ago · This collection is filled with poems that we borrow for a while, to guide us through Muldoon’s phantasmagorical underworld; before he walks away with his book under his arm, leaving us to wonder ...
1 day ago · Elis, when the blackbird cries from the black forest, it announces your downfall. Your lips sip the rock-spring's blue coolness. Your brow sweats blood recalling ancient myths and dark interpretations of birds' flight. Yet you enter the night with soft footfalls; the ripe purple grapes hang suspended as you wave your arms more beautifully in ...
1 day ago · The aircrews had two options when it came to shooting down the F6F-5K Hellcat. They could either attack from a 90-degree “beam” position or from behind, in a “tail chase.” With the drone moving toward the largely uninhabited Antelope Valley, the time had come to take action; the Battle of Palmdale was about to begin.
5 days ago · Meet the A-12 Oxcart: CIA Spy Plane Faster Than the SR-71 Blackbird. On October 30, 1967, a CIA A-12 Oxcart spy-plane, piloted by Dennis Sullivan, flew over Hanoi, Vietnam at 84,000 feet and over...
5 days ago · Soon after in May of 1960, Francis Gary Powers was shot down in a U-2 over the Soviet Union. This event resulted in the United States and the Soviet Union signing an agreement not to fly manned vehicles over the Soviet Union again, a treaty that was undermined even before the SR-71 was built.
8 hours ago · She recorded the song's album version in March 2008 with the producer Nathan Chapman at Blackbird Studios in Nashville. For her vocals, Chapman tried different microphones until Swift came across an Avantone CV-12 multi-pattern tube microphone that was built by the country-music artist Ray Kennedy, with whom she worked on Taylor Swift. After ...
