Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird

A procedural model built in Blender from the type’s published dimensions, painted as 61-7962, IWM Duxford’s Lockheed SR-71A Blackbird and the only Blackbird displayed outside the United States, which flew strategic reconnaissance sorties with the US Air Force’s 9th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing until the type was retired in 1990 and arrived at Duxford in 2001: a two-seat Mach 3 reconnaissance aircraft built largely of titanium, 107 ft long, with a long blended forebody edged by sharp chines that run into a thin delta wing, two Pratt & Whitney J58 engines in large nacelles at mid-span with conical inlet spikes, and two all-moving fins canted inward on top of the nacelles, shown standing level on its tricycle undercarriage: weathered overall black, with a red ‘17962’ above a red ‘1’ wrapped by a habu snake on the starboard fin, red rescue and ejection-seat warning stencils beside the cockpits, a red sleeve on the nose pitot and red caps on the inlet spikes, as displayed (no national insignia, as on the aircraft today; no photograph shows the outer face of the port fin, so it is left unmarked). Drag to orbit, scroll or pinch to zoom · all 215 models · download .glb (969 KB) · Plate 188 in The Hangar