Aircraft encyclopedia

Aircraft models with their history, specifications and variants.

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Reconnaissance · 1955
Lockheed U-2
The Lockheed U-2 is a high-altitude strategic reconnaissance aircraft: a single-seater with enormously long, narrow wings, one jet engine and a structure pared down to the lightest airframe its designers could get away with, conceived in…
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Reconnaissance · 1964
Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird
The Lockheed SR-71 "Blackbird" was the fastest and highest-flying reconnaissance aircraft ever to enter operational service: a two-seat machine able to cross continents above Mach 3 and beyond 80,000 feet, built to photograph hostile…
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