Everything You Need To Know About The Mysterious Lockheed Martin SR-72 ‘Darkstar’

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Often confused with a fictional aircraft featured in Top Gun: Maverick, which goes by the name Darkstar, the SR-72 hasn’t been given a codename. According to Interesting Engineering, the aircraft design is sometimes referenced as the Son of Blackbird, which throws down a challenging gauntlet for the designers at the famed Lockheed Martin Skunk Works engineering team. The aircraft that the SR-72 succeeds, the SR-71, is a universal icon of aerospace engineering. The SR-71 was the fastest manned aircraft ever built, a title that has yet to be beaten despite its first flight 60 years ago. The aircraft was such...