The SR-71’s operational missions began in 1968, during the Vietnam War. The Museum’s Blackbird was no exception. It arrived at Japan’s Kadena Air Base in late September 1969, and flew its ...

The SR-71’s operational missions began in 1968, during the Vietnam War. The Museum’s Blackbird was no exception. It arrived at Japan’s Kadena Air Base in late September 1969, and flew its ...

Carpenter also has more than 300 hours in strategic reconnaissance aircraft, including the U-2 and SR-71, and flew missions from Beale Air Force Base in California, Kadena Air Base in Japan, and ...

While an SR-71 emanating from Kadena Air Base in Japan, was going in for images of key communist targets throughout the Asian side of the Communist Bloc, MiG-25s from Vladivostok gave chase.

The SR-71 began to replace the CIA’s A-12s at Kadena Air Force Base on Okinawa in March 1968 and flew its first ... The SR-71, with upgrades, served the Air Force from 1967 to 1998 and was its ...

The SR-71 is perhaps the most ... Pilot Maj. William Lawson along with RSO Maj. Gilbert Martinez hit a thunderstorm while operating SR-71A 61-7969 from Kadena Air Base, on Okinawa, during ...

KADENA AIR BASE, Okinawa — Ten Air Force servicemembers were attacked in Marek Park on Wednesday. But instead of licking their wounds, they licked whipped-cream pie off their faces. The 10 ...