When it comes to blistering aerial speeds, fighter jets manufactured by American military contractors like Boeing and Lockheed dominate the skies. While Bell's X-1 "Glamorous Glennis" was the first ...

The company behind the SR-71 Blackbird’s engine is reportedly working on a hypersonic engine design that draws on that jet’s legendary power plant. You love badass planes. So do we. Let’s nerd out ...

The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird is widely known as the fastest plane to ever take to the sky. It set a ground speed record of 2,193.2 mph all the way back in July of 1976. That may not even be its true ...

Capable of 32,500 pounds of thrust, Lockheed’s J58 engine turned a spy plane into a Mach 3 monster. Built from exotic alloys that glowed white-hot at 2,000°F, it was part turbojet, part ramjet, an ...

The J58 engine was both miracle and menace, a hybrid that functioned as a turbojet, a ramjet, and a furnace. This episode examines how Lockheed and Pratt & Whitney tamed titanium heat, perfected ...