{"id":206069,"date":"2025-04-26T11:01:16","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T01:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/sr-71-blackbird-j58-engine-history-high-speed-aviation\/"},"modified":"2025-04-26T11:01:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T01:01:16","slug":"how-the-sr-71s-engine-made-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=206069","title":{"rendered":"How The SR-71&#8217;s Engine Made History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is widely known that the SR-71 Blackbird is the fastest air-breathing manned aircraft to ever take to the skies, with the plane able to exceed speeds far beyond Mach 2. The aircraft, which was developed as a collaboration between Lockheed&#8217;s secretive Skunk Works division and multiple US government organizations, including the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and the         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"306101\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/united-states-air-force\/\"  >United States Air Force<\/a><\/span> (USAF), was <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/5-us-military-surveillance-aircraft-made-history\/\" >incredibly valuable for decades as a high-altitude reconnaissance jet<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The aircraft&#8217;s engine is incredibly capable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,412,1626,423,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-military","category-sr-71","category-united-states","category-united-states-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=206069"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206070,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206069\/revisions\/206070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=206069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=206069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=206069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}