Highlights: The 2025 Post Bulletin All-Area Boys Golfer of the Year had a banner senior season, to cap a remarkable high school career. Was the Section 1-3A medalist (68-66—134) this spring and placed ...

Here is the 2025 All-Space Coast boys lacrosse team: Nate Combs, Sophomore, Holy Trinity: Combs scored 24 goals and assisted ...

The SR-71 is perhaps the most iconic Cold War spy aircraft, famous for many record-setting flights. Seemingly impervious to ...

Long before the SR-71 stunned the world, the A-12 was flying secret missions at Mach 3—under CIA command. Born in Skunk Works and hidden from the public, this jet was the real cutting edge of Cold War ...

While the SR-71 Blackbird wasn’t truly invisible to radar ... In total, 32 Blackbirds were built, and while 12 were lost, none were shot down in combat. Most accidents happened during testing ...

Long before the world knew the SR-71, there was the A-12—a stealth jet so secret, it operated in the shadows. Designed by Lockheed’s legendary Skunk Works team, the A-12 was faster ...

Summary and Key Points: The A-12 Oxcart, predecessor to the famed SR-71 Blackbird, was a groundbreaking reconnaissance aircraft developed by Lockheed’s Skunk Works in the late 1950s.

Today we call that technology “stealth.” The Lockheed A-12—a CIA reconnaissance airplane that was later modified into the SR-71—was the first aircraft to incorporate stealth features in ...

Though there were a variety of aircraft considered for the J58, like the Convair Kingfish, ultimately, it would be utilized in four planes: the Lockheed A-12, SR-71, SR-71B trainer aircraft ...

In the perennial game of aeronautical anatomy-waving contests, the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird wins every time. All the world's achievements in aviation in the last 120 years don't hit home in most ...

SR-71 Blackbirds predated the use of onboard data ... the planes were immensely complicated to maintain and fly, and nearly half (12 of 32) were downed in accidents. Perhaps as a result of this ...

12 of 32 were lost to accidents. In addition, it was very complicated to operate and fly. According to aviation historian Peter Merlin, a great deal of effort was required to get an SR-71 into the ...