the most beautiful airplane: the Blackbird
What: The Lockheed SR-71 "Blackbird," a long-range strategic recon plane in service from 1964 to 1998: Why: The pride of Lockheed Skunk Works, the sleek Blackbird was the bee's knees in 1976, when it set an altitude record of over 85,000 feet and a cruising record of nearly 2,200 mph. Pretty good for 1976, I'd […]