num_pages: 280
description: Tasked with performing highly classified recce missions, Lockheed's SR-71 is undoubtedly the most impressive military jet ever built. This latest edition reviews the alliance between NASA and the Lockheed project, and features a fully detailed complete listing of USAF missions flown out of Kadena. Also detailed are the flights from Beale AFB in California and RAF Mildenhall in England, as the SR-71 monitored Soviet nuclear submarines in the Arctic Circle and the Baltic. The SR-71 story features contributions from 70 crewmembers and six generals who discuss their experiences and judgements of the Blackbird project.
language: English
title: Lockheed SR-71: The Secret Missions Exposed
titlecomplete: Lockheed SR-71: The Secret Missions Exposed (Revised Edition)
genres: Aviation
ratings_count: 32
publisher: Osprey Publishing Ltd.