Created by Lockheed’s legendary Skunk Works team-a top-secret crew of techno wizards-at the height of the cold war, the Blackbird cruised at more than three times the speed of sound. “Faster than a speeding bullet” may bring to mind a certain superhero from the planet Krypton, but it was literally true of the SR-71 Blackbird, the sleek, stealthy Air Force spy plane taken up for its first test flight 50 years ago on December 22, 1964. From the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Udvar-Hazy Center
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