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An SR-71 Blackbird 'lost all engines' at 83,000 feet over Russia flying at Mach 3.2. It fell for minutes. The crew almost didn’t make it back.

An SR-71 Blackbird near the Soviet Kola Peninsula in the summer of 1984 suffered a violent right-side intake unstart at roughly 83,000 feet and Mach 3.2. Pilot Joseph E. Matthews then placed the left ...
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The SR-71 Blackbird is the retirement-age aircraft modern jets still chase

The SR-71 Blackbird is the retirement-age aircraft modern jets still chase The SR-71 Blackbird became an aviation legend by relying on extreme speed, altitude and engineering that still looks ...