Linda Sheffield Miller

The story of when a Russian Nuclear Satellite crashed in Canada (and possibly inspired Clint Eastwood’s Space Cowboys)

JP-7, the SR-71 Blackbird Mach 3+ reconnaissance plane fuel, caused a nationwide shortage of bug spray. Here’s why.

SR-71 pilot recalls setting 13 acres of Maryland on fire by dumping fuel after one engine exploded during his last Blackbird flight

SR-71 pilot recalls when his Blackbird flying at Mach 3, at 80K ft made a shockwave stretching from Indiana to New York State

The legend of the bag with $30 million in cash delivered to Kelly Johnson to pay for the first six CIA U-2 spy planes

SR-71 pilot tells when a Soviet MiG-23 pilot asked him to bring his Blackbird at Vladivostok as a gesture of peaceful relationship.

SR-71 Blackbird RCS was 20 square in. at subsonic speeds, at Mach 3.2 the RCS was 10 square miles. Here’s why.

The A-12 pilot who looking for a crashed F-105 in Utah came across a brothel with a runway (A C-7A was the largest aircraft to land there)

SR-71 pilot remembers when his RSO Flipped Off a French Mirage III Pilot (Then They lit their Blackbird Afterburners and Outran him)

SR-71 crew members tell why the Blackbird spy plane couldn’t exceed Mach 3.2 for the 1976 Absolute Speed Record